[ShadakS]

Bought Witcher 1 on Steam yesterday. Downloaded, installed without issue.

Ran the game and got "An unhandled win32 exception occured in witcher.exe". No matter what I did, same error. Then found information about downloading from GoG.com so I did that. Removed local content from Steam and installed manually using the GoG.com files. Unfortunately I get the same error. I tried dropping down Sound Settings from Maxed to Standard (The so called EAX fix) but still doesnt run.

System spec:
Windows XP 64bit
ATI Radeon HD 3850
8GB RAM

Below is the contents of the errlog.txt from my most recent crash. Could really use some help on getting this running...

The Witcher Crash Log
==============================================
Build: [Plus] 1.4.5.1304 (11/04/08 13:51:26)
Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Read from location 00000000


EAX=00000000 EBX=00000001 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000003 ESI=00000001
EDI=04788FD9 EBP=00000000 ESP=025FF9CC EIP=0074E632 FLG=00210246
CS=0023 DS=002B SS=002B ES=002B
FS=0053 GS=002B

Call Stack
--------------------


Mini dump written successfully.
System: W2003
Crash time: 11/4/2012 16:52:00
User: Administrator
2 processor(s), type 586
14% memory in use
0 MB physical mem
0 MB physical mem free
0 MB virtual mem.
3884 MB virtual mem free.
Total Reserved: 122796K
Total Commit: 110820K
Total Free: 3960624K
Largest Free: 2089540K

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Aurora Info
0 block(s) not fit in arenas
0 trimesh(es) optimized
0 uncompressed texture(s) loaded via CAurTextureLoader
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[*Tommy*]

Have you checked you memory sticks for errors using memtest . Also are your memory sticks matching , in other words do they have the same clock speed and same type .
Might also check your DEP settings to make sure that nothing has changed .

[ShadakS]

*Tommy* said:

Have you checked you memory sticks for errors using memtest . Also are your memory sticks matching , in other words do they have the same clock speed and same type .
Might also check your DEP settings to make sure that nothing has changed . ›››

MemTest came back negative on errors. RAM sticks are a matching pair. DEP is set to only run for critical windows stuff (Tried setting it to "all except for what I specify" and added Witcher.exe to the exclude list just to be sure). Still get the error.

[Guy N'wah]

Wonder if you have to go through the ritual of removing TAGES on XP 64. XP 64's a weird OS, not XP at all but a crippled Server 2003. I upped my XP 64 host to Windows 7 a long time ago, or I'd try to duplicate it for you. But I'd start with making sure you have TAGES removed and the latest drivers from AMD installed (AMD still has driver support for the HD 3850 on XP 64).

[ShadakS]

Yeah already attempted to remove TAGES it didnt exist, so I installed it and then removed it to be sure. Latest gfx drivers already in place.