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Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Tue, 01 April 2008 15:53 Go to next message
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Hello,
I have Win XP Home SP2 and want to run Stars! (Orig. 2.7b, patched to 2.7j, german version). Unfortunately, I get a violation error from time to time. I have read through the posts, installed DOSBox and have an old version of WIN98. But what now? Install Win98 as dual boot or start DOSBox and ...?
May sound funny, but I am no expert on these things; but I want to play Stars! again.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Tue, 01 April 2008 16:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 You should be able to run stars on XP (no need for dosbox). Can you post the error/exception that you are getting?

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Tue, 01 April 2008 16:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 Absolutely should be no problem running under XP SP2 - I do. You may have something else pre-loaded that could be interfering - but it would be a guess to know what. No need for a DOS box for sure - that may be your problem.

Post additional information here and we'll manage to get it fixed I'm sure. You can also mail me using ptolemy dot stars at gmail dot com.


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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Tue, 01 April 2008 17:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 Hi panther and welcome!

If it only happens from time to time, would that be when you are viewing battles? Stars! wants to play battle sound by default and when your sound card is being used by another program Stars! will crash.

You can turn off the sound in Stars! itself or start the .exe with the options -s and -m (I think, not sure). Probably works as well if you check your stars.ini file (in your windows directory) and under the [Misc] section set:
SoundFX=0
Music=0

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Tue, 01 April 2008 17:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 Another thing worth trying would be plain vanilla Stars!2.6jrc4 (english version) as downloaded from Autohost itself. It has never given me a problem across a half dozen vastly different computers running WinXP+SP2. Sherlock

So many Stars, so few Missiles!

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Wed, 02 April 2008 04:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hello all,
wow, that was real quick Smile .
This is the error I sometimes get:
"
Anwendungspopup: Anwendungsfehler: STARS! verursachte eine allgemeine Schutzverletzung in
Modul STARS!.EXE bei 001E:04DF.
"
And yes, it comes when Stars! wants to open the battle screen. And I have no ini-file (I remember there should be one when ending the first game via 'Exit'). So I will try the other suggestions.
Thank you all for helping!

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Wed, 02 April 2008 12:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 Yes,
you do have a Stars.ini file. It is in your Windows directory. However, since this happens when you open the battle screen it is most likely what Micha stated - the sound drver. So, 2 options - disable the sound or download the 2.6jrc4 version here:
http://starsautohost.org/files/stars26jrc4.zip
and use it. Also, if you are going to use the 2.7 version in german that you download and use the JRC3 version here:
http://starsautohost.org/files/stars27jrc3-german.zip

For the 2.7 version you should disable the sound.

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Wed, 02 April 2008 14:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ptolemy,
of course you are right, it is in the Windows folder. So I set SoundFX=0, installed the newest german version (would the newest english version work and would it bring any advantage?) and now I am happily playing Stars! again. It still is the best of it's kind!
Thanks very much to everyone for your help!

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Wed, 02 April 2008 15:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 The only differences between JRC3 and JRC4 were a couple modifications made to host processing of turns. As far as playing goes there is no difference so you can use either version.

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Wed, 30 April 2008 06:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 I get the occassional blue screen and the occassional exception error when running Stars under XP SP2.

In games against the AI or tests it usually crops up during gentime.

Just sayin.

[Updated on: Wed, 30 April 2008 06:41]

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Wed, 30 April 2008 09:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Soobie wrote on Wed, 30 April 2008 12:41

I get the occassional blue screen and the occassional exception error when running Stars under XP SP2.

What version of Stars! are you using? You noticed it more on big universes full of fleets? Perhaps when populous multi-sided battles were slated to happen? Were you able to go a turn back and sidestep the problem? Sherlock

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Re: Back to the roots, need help for Win XP. Wed, 30 April 2008 10:32 Go to previous message
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 This problem has been corrected by turning the sound off. The topic is now locked.

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