WA Fails to start :( :\ :| >:o

[xchaos01]

I just installed WA on my laptop/vista machine and the first thing I encountered was the installer disapearing on me, I checked the FAQs and disabled the DMA on device manager and that worked.

Then I aplied the 3.0 patch then the 3.6.28 and gfxupdate, everything went fine until I actually tried to RUN the game, this is what happen:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3108/waerrorsx9.jpg

This is the text on the ERRORLOG.TXT file:

wa caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module wa.exe at 001b:00409144.

Exception handler called in ExceptionAttacher.cpp - AfxWinMain.
Error occurred at 5/14/2008 03:48:10.
D:\Games\Team17\WA\wa.exe, run by Raul Marquez.
Operating system: Windows Vista (6.0.6001).
2 processor(s), type 586.
62% memory in use.
1014 MBytes physical memory.
378 MBytes physical memory free.
2293 MBytes paging file.
1282 MBytes paging file free.
2048 MBytes user address space.
1918 MBytes user address space free.
Read from location 00000000 caused an access violation.

Context:
EDI: 0x00001771 ESI: 0x00000002 EAX: 0x00000000
EBX: 0x00000001 ECX: 0x00000000 EDX: 0x00129654
EIP: 0x00409144 EBP: 0x0012974c SegCs: 0x0000001b
EFlags: 0x00010212 ESP: 0x00129634 SegSs: 0x00000023

Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 8b 15 3c 5f 6b 00 52 8b 41 58 ff d0 c7 45

Please somebody help meh.:confused:

[franpa]

compress and upload the whole errorlog file.

[xchaos01]

Here it is:

http://www.angelfire.com/bug/chaos1/ERRORLOG.rar (http://www.angelfire.com/bug/chaos1/ERRORLOG.rar)

[Muzer]

Do you by any chance have an Intel graphics chipset? (Start, type dxdiag into the search box, hit enter, when it loads click display and look at the name of your display card) If so, I'm afraid unless you install the XP drivers (low success rate and disables Aero) or make a Virtual machine, there is currently no way to run WA. This is entirely Intel's fault, as they didn't include full DirectDraw support in their drivers, an old technology that one or two old games, such as WA, relied on.

[xchaos01]

Yes, I'm running an intel graphics chipset... :-/

Taken fro dxdiag.txt:

---------------
Display Devices
---------------
Card name: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip type: Intel(R) GMA 950
DAC type: Internal
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27A2&SUBSYS_FF001179&REV_03
Display Memory: 251 MB
Dedicated Memory: 0 MB
Shared Memory: 251 MB
Current Mode: 800 x 600 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Driver Name: igdumd32.dll
Driver Version: 7.14.0010.1437 (English)
DDI Version: 9Ex
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 2/11/2008 19:36:08, 3301376 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B78E66-64E2-11CF-5477-0ADFA2C2CA35}
Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID: 0x27A2
SubSys ID: 0xFF001179
Revision ID: 0x0003
Revision ID: 0x0003
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C

DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled

So I can try installing the XP drivers? Virtual machine? what is this virtual machine? what else can I do?

[Bawb]

You applied 3 patches?

All you need is the 3.6.28.0 one.

[Muzer]

So I can try installing the XP drivers? Virtual machine? what is this virtual machine? what else can I do?


A virtual machine is basically a virtual computer running within your computer being emulated. Since it is all emulated including directdraw, WA will work no matter what your graphics card is.

For a Virtual machine you need a copy of an old version of Windows (reccomended 98 as that will give best performance, but any version older than Vista that can run WA will probably do), and go to http://worms2d.info/Installing_WA_on_Virtual_PC .
If you can't get Virtual PC to work, and you have Windows 2000 or XP, try here: http://worms2d.info/Installing_WA_on_VMware_Player

[Run]

i want your desktop background

[CyberShadow]

VirtualBox is faster than Virtual PC and is simpler to set up than VMware Player.

http://worms2d.info/Installing_WA_on_VirtualBox