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[tsondie21]

Hello,

I have installed and patched and reinstalled 3 times now.  I have downloaded from multiple locations. Every time i start the game the command prompt opens up and starts to open the game, and the screen goes black for a few seconds. Then, a little box pops up that says: "unhandled exception c0000005 at location 000000000"

I am running windows vista.  Any ideas?

[Krash]

Are you running the latest drivers?
Does it open if you add the following line to GameData/base/prefs/clientPrefs.cs (create it if it doesn't exist):
$pref::skipintro = 1;

You could also try:
$pref::Video::displayDevice = "D3D";
or:
$pref::Video::displayDevice = "OpenGL";

[kink459]

I am having the same problem. I tried the things you said and nothing worked. Is there anything else I can try?

[tanith]

I get the unhandled exception error c0000005, but my location's 0058a841 and that happens any time I try to join a server.

[tsondie21]

I have all updated drivers and I added those lines to my client prefs.  Still the same problem.

[Krash]

There are a few other things you can try to fix a startup UE, including but not limited to:
- Reinstalling the game itself from the installer available in the downloads section.
Make sure to either install in a new directory or totally clear out the old one.
- Running in compatibility mode and disabling any additional formatting the OS might add.
- If you're on a multi-core system, try setting the program's affinity to start with one core
If you put something like this in a .bat file in your GameData directory, it should do it:

Code:

start /affinity 1 Tribes2.exe -online

[tsondie21]

I did all of those things and none of them worked.

[DigitalDemolition]

Has anyone tried to run tribes2 on windows xp without service pack1 or 2? or without windows vista? and have they had any success online?. because i'm starting to think that these errors are in service pack2 in xp .......and vista...well thats a whole nother story.

[Phantom139]

Has anyone tried to run tribes2 on windows xp without service pack1 or 2? or without windows vista? and have they had any success online?. because i'm starting to think that these errors are in service pack2 in xp .......and vista...well thats a whole nother story.

I am running XP with Service Pack 2, Works fine for me. I can play online, and host online servers.

[Alviss]

Unhandled exceptions are common in Tribes2, but usually only after you've joined a server. Or modified the game yourself and created something the engine doesn't like.

[tanith]

Unhandled exceptions are common in Tribes2, but usually only after you've joined a server. Or modified the game yourself and created something the engine doesn't like.

Well given that I just downloaded, installed and patched without any scripting... Sigh.

[Alviss]

Unhandled exceptions are common in Tribes2, but usually only after you've joined a server. Or modified the game yourself and created something the engine doesn't like.

Well given that I just downloaded, installed and patched without any scripting... Sigh.

I'm just putting that out there for folk who don't know that, and blame the patch for one of t2's own problems.

[Blakhart]

For those with multicore systems, one may try this:

SetPerfCounterEnable(1);

Paste that string in some script in autoexec, or make it a script by itself called perf.cs or somesuch. Remember where you put it if you paste it into an existing script though. Run the game with it set to one as it is in the above line, and then set to zero and test. If you get relief from microstutter or ues there you go. If you get no relief, or even worse performance with it in, delete it. Also, delete all .dso files wherever you find them when you tweak settings, the game will run off the dsos and neglect any changes you make unless you make the changes in game. Might post a link to a site where one can dl cleandso.vl2... cleandso deletes all dsos when you close the game.

http://www.tribes2.info/scripts/

[Thyth]

You'll probably want setPerfCounterEnable(0); not setPerfCounterEnable(1);

[tanith]

Additionally, when the game doesn't crash due to  unhandled exception error c0000005, the servers I try to connect to say "Servers sent back an unreasonable IP challenge source.  Possible replay attack attempt".  Any ideas?

To add: I can do the single player/LAN stuff fine, it's just that I will either of the two errors mentioned previously.