Lock On Crash

[EtherealN]

IvanK, could you supply a DxDiag output file on your system to see if there's anything in there that can be spotted?

 

Also, does your motherboard have an onboard sound chip? If so, have you tried disabling and/or removing your XiFi card and use the onboard instead to see if the error is the existing soundcard?

[IvanK]

Win 7 64Bit.

On Board sound de activated. I havent tried pulling out the XiFi card ... kinda loath to do that :)

 

Attached both 64Bit DXDIAG and normal

DxDiag64.txt

DxDiag.txt

[EtherealN]

Not seeing anything that causes me to immediately raise my eyebrows.

 

However, you do not necessarily have to physically pull the sound card out of the machine. The objective is to establish whether it (or software related to it) are the cause. It should suffice to disable the card in the hardware manager and either run without sound entirely (preferable, at least once for trying) or with the onboard sound.

 

If the problem then disappears we know that it's somewhere around the sound card that we need to dig. If the problem persists we would need to find something else.

 

One further note though - there was a LOT of peripherals connected there, which I assume is a SimPit. Might be worth disconnecting absolutely everything that is not necessary to launch the application, if the sound thing fails. Basically to eliminate as many things as possible as a potential cause - narrows the field of search. :)

[IvanK]

Ok thanks for the help I will slowly keep testing as advised.

 

Present test is running in Compatibility mode XP SP3 as Admin. I have no idea if this is the right thing to do but so far no CTD's though its still way to early to tell on this one.

[Kuky]

I think ntdll.dll is network related... lately I am aware of many people getting CTD's (including myself) quite often. In LockOn pretty much every server is runnig LRM so I am inclined to think this might me causing it as I don't remember having so many CTD's before... not saying LRM is causing it but I would not rule it out.

[IvanK]

I get these CTDS both Online and Offline.

[EtherealN]

ntdll is the Windows method of giving user applications access to low-level functions - could say it's the part of Windows that mediates between the application and the hardware.

 

So the bothersome part of it is that seeing it means the bug or problem can be pretty much anywhere. Anything that touches any hardware can theoretically cause errors in there. Which, well, means anything since at the very least it'll need the processor and memory. The exception code there narrows it down a bit to something memory related, so it might be a bug in how it handles memory, or there might be something else (even hardware issues) that doesn't manage to handle it's memory properly - including sound (for loading and retrieving sound effects), graphics (textures, models etcetera) and so on. Most of the times where I saw ntdll errors with that exception code when I did a search actually was applications like Winamp.

 

EDIT: The name, "ntdll" has nothing to do with "nt" as in "network". It's basically the fact that we are running Windows NT. (Version 5 for XP, 6 for Vista, 7 for 7.)

Edited December 14, 2009 by EtherealN

[OldCrow]

I've had the problem with ctd's aswell, though when i disable lockon sounds and end uneccecery background processes, I never get ctd

 

Running Vista 64 with onboard realtek soundcard

 

Tried the "soundback" drivers for realtek aswell, but not really any differance

[IvanK]

An update to the CTD issue I was having. I have not had a single CTD since I did the following:

 

Renamed MSVCRTT.DLL in the main lockon folder (so the only version visible to PC is the one in the system folder)

 

Run Lockon Flaming Cliffs under XP SP3 compatibility mode as Admin.

(Right click on the shorcut ...> Properties .....> Compatibility )

 

(Running Win7 64Bit, Creative XiFi card,Alchemy,Nivida GTX295)

[71st_Mastiff]

An update to the CTD issue I was having. I have not had a single CTD since I did the following:

 

Renamed MSVCRTT.DLL in the main lockon folder (so the only version visible to PC is the one in the system folder)

 

Run Lockon Flaming Cliffs under XP SP3 compatibility mode as Admin.

(Right click on the shorcut ...> Properties .....> Compatibility )

 

(Running Win7 64Bit, Creative XiFi card,Alchemy,Nivida GTX295)

 

I can not save file type to .dlz from .dll how do I do that?

[IvanK]

I just did it with Explorer. Right click then rename. Make sure you have enabled the display of file extensions.

[71st_Mastiff]

I just did it with Explorer. Right click then rename. Make sure you have enabled the display of file extensions.

 

mmm it worked after i rebooted. and it seems to run a little smoother.

:pilotfly:

[HiJack]

An update to the CTD issue I was having. I have not had a single CTD since I did the following:

 

Renamed MSVCRTT.DLL in the main lockon folder (so the only version visible to PC is the one in the system folder)

 

Run Lockon Flaming Cliffs under XP SP3 compatibility mode as Admin.

(Right click on the shorcut ...> Properties .....> Compatibility )

 

(Running Win7 64Bit, Creative XiFi card,Alchemy,Nivida GTX295)

 

This is good news! I'l changed my files and will try this out this weekend. Allways had CTD with FC 1.1B and 1.2B so have not used FC so much. Still waiting for FC2 :D

[ArtMan_NL]

Hi Guys,

 

For me as a n00b this is a beautiful topic. However the mods are hard to find.

 

For example:

 

10: Install updated weapons for Walmis F-15 Model (modman)

 

I couldn't find this specific mod on the 2 mentioned sites. However I could find Weapons Pack V2.11 but this one is not specific for the F-15?

 

Is it possible to provide some download links. Or ad all these mods to a zipfile and share it as one download? I should really appreciate that if somebody would do that for me :wub::beer:

 

Kind regards,

 

Arthur