R
Roalith
Guest
Really starting to annoy me; was actually beginning to enjoy the game again after a long period of apathy. If I can't get this sorted before account runs out (03-07), I won't be resubscribing.
Anyway, here's the nitty gritty:
Athlon Tbird 1200mhz
ASUS Kt7A motherboard
512 MB SDR PC100
Geforce 3 (Original)
80gb 7200rpm Maxtor (Primary HDD)
40gb 5200rpm IBM (Secondary HDD)
Windows XP Professional
Sunday morning, afternoon-ish, suffered a master boot record failure on my primary hdd. Had, in all honesty, expected it a long time, it needed defragging badly, but was something I never got around to (defragging a 54% fragmented 80gb drive != fast).
Anyway, reformatted the hdd, and reinstalled XP from scratch. Downloaded: Directx9.0a, latest Via Hyperion 4-in-1 (1.47), latest Nvidia Detonator (44.03), XP Service Pack 1, all the critical updates etc.
And... Shrouded Isles lets me log in a character from the selection screen, even move around for 5 seconds or so... then either spontaneously reboots my system or crashes back to desktop with an error report. Errorlog.txt in the c:\shrouded isles directory reports:
game caused an Access Violation in module D3D8.DLL at 001b:01a6d880.
Exception handler called in main thread.
I have tried multiple versions of the 4-in-1s, multiple Detonator versions, even tried reformatting the secondary hard drive with a fresh copy of XP from scratch, and starting with older drivers off the cuff - exact same error occuring.
DXDIAG works perfectly, as does the original Camelot client (And, presumably, as would any other Direct3d game).
Bear in mind, that with all this: SI was working perfectly prior to the reformat. Not one single glitch.
I have searched assorted forums looking for solutions, and nothing whatsoever is helping.
I am completely out of ideas. Any help whatsoever would be appreciated; as I said, I can't get this sorted then it's au revoir Prydwen.
Anyway, here's the nitty gritty:
Athlon Tbird 1200mhz
ASUS Kt7A motherboard
512 MB SDR PC100
Geforce 3 (Original)
80gb 7200rpm Maxtor (Primary HDD)
40gb 5200rpm IBM (Secondary HDD)
Windows XP Professional
Sunday morning, afternoon-ish, suffered a master boot record failure on my primary hdd. Had, in all honesty, expected it a long time, it needed defragging badly, but was something I never got around to (defragging a 54% fragmented 80gb drive != fast).
Anyway, reformatted the hdd, and reinstalled XP from scratch. Downloaded: Directx9.0a, latest Via Hyperion 4-in-1 (1.47), latest Nvidia Detonator (44.03), XP Service Pack 1, all the critical updates etc.
And... Shrouded Isles lets me log in a character from the selection screen, even move around for 5 seconds or so... then either spontaneously reboots my system or crashes back to desktop with an error report. Errorlog.txt in the c:\shrouded isles directory reports:
game caused an Access Violation in module D3D8.DLL at 001b:01a6d880.
Exception handler called in main thread.
I have tried multiple versions of the 4-in-1s, multiple Detonator versions, even tried reformatting the secondary hard drive with a fresh copy of XP from scratch, and starting with older drivers off the cuff - exact same error occuring.
DXDIAG works perfectly, as does the original Camelot client (And, presumably, as would any other Direct3d game).
Bear in mind, that with all this: SI was working perfectly prior to the reformat. Not one single glitch.
I have searched assorted forums looking for solutions, and nothing whatsoever is helping.
I am completely out of ideas. Any help whatsoever would be appreciated; as I said, I can't get this sorted then it's au revoir Prydwen.