Crashing to desktop (DXDIAG + LOG FILE)

[Guest Overland]

Right so read your rules, thanks for anyone that can maybe help.

And have been watching the forums LAMOD etc.. for a while, but only got the game today.

Thanks guys

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[Newfoundking]

Have you made any changes whatsoever from the original LA mod?

Also it could be something to do with your video card... I'm a bit confuffeled.

[Guest Overland]

Yeah sorry for my confusion. Although I have been watching the LAMOD I haven't actually installed it yet.

This is vanilla Emergency 4.

I have a ATI 4870 graphics card PCI-E not AGP.

But the fact it works and crashes it a tad annoying

[pyrothijs]

Yeah sorry for my confusion. Although I have been watching the LAMOD I haven't actually installed it yet.

This is vanilla Emergency 4.

I have a ATI 4870 graphics card PCI-E not AGP.

But the fact it works and crashes it a tad annoying

Well have you made any changes to the original game then? Your logfile says some of the paths are blocked. That is probably why it shuts down. You might want to consider a reinstall if you made any chnages.

Also check if you have a folder called 'mods' in your main Emergency 4 folder. If not Manually add that folder.

Oh and next time please use the attachment function to upload your dxdiag file and you mod file. That saves a lot of space and is much easier to read. Check out the Technical Help FAQ about the upload function if you don't know how to use it.

Edited May 6, 2009 by pyrothijs

[Guest Overland]

Right I will reinstall the game, see if that gets us anywhere.

Thanks for all the help.

The game has not been modified at all.

There was no "mods" folder in the programfiles/sixteen ton.../emergency4.- Added now.

[pyrothijs]

Right I will reinstall the game, see if that gets us anywhere.

Thanks for all the help.

The game has not been modified at all.

There was no "mods" folder in the programfiles/sixteen ton.../emergency4.- Added now.

You probably have to add that again after the reinstall.

[Guest Overland]

Right did as said, but we are still crashing. I have uploaded the full log file.

I have also created sixteen.../emergency 4/mods

Its a amazing game before it crashes though!

Also updated the graphics drivers to the latest ones!

logfile.txt

DxDiag.txt

[pyrothijs]

Right did as said, but we are still crashing. I have uploaded the full log file.

I have also created sixteen.../emergency 4/mods

Its a amazing game before it crashes though!

Also updated the graphics drivers to the latest ones!

I think you might have a codec problem (see the technical help FAQ) or it might be XP SP3.

Try to see if you can solve the codec problem first by removing unused codecs.

[Guest Overland]

I used Sherlock, and I have none of the offending Codec packs installed (very much just your basic ones).

So XP SP3?

Btw thanks again for reply.

[pyrothijs]

I used Sherlock, and I have none of the offending Codec packs installed (very much just your basic ones).

So XP SP3?

Btw thanks again for reply.

Well it could also be your videodrivers. Not that there old, but maybe there too new. EM4 was published a long time ago, some of the modern drivers are 'too hot to handle' for the game. So maybe the answer is downgrading your drivers to a version dating 2008. If you cannot find that version and if it didn't cause you a lot of trouble installing I'd say try deleting SP3 and see what it does. Make sure you do have the SP3 install file so you can reinstall SP3 if it has no effect.

[Guest Overland]

I may actually try it with Vista possibly on compatibility mode. See if we can get around this that way.