Crash upon completion of Cloaking Research

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Stardock SmartException Logging Information
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OS Version : Windows ME
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 004EA8BB 01:000E98BB C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00000000
EBX:8508D644
ECX:00000000
EDX:7EFEFEFF
ESI:8508B6E4
EDI:02E80CF9
CS:EIP:0177:004EA8BB
SS:ESP:017F:00A6F27C EBP:00A6F434
DS:017F ES:017F FS:4557 GS:0000
Flags:00010246


Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
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004EA8BB 00A6F434 0001:000E98BB C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0043A946 00A6F4A0 0001:00039946 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0043ABBB 00A6F530 0001:00039BBB C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0043AC47 00A6F598 0001:00039C47 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0047DF9C 00A6F614 0001:0007CF9C C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0047DF9C 00A6F690 0001:0007CF9C C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00494B8C 00A6F6F8 0001:00093B8C C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0049496E 00A6F760 0001:0009396E C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00439C74 00A6F918 0001:00038C74 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00419988 00A6F994 0001:00018988 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004197DE 00A6F9FC 0001:000187DE C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00492A5D 00A6FA64 0001:00091A5D C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00492C91 00A6FACC 0001:00091C91 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0048E9B0 00A6FB44 0001:0008D9B0 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004B2274 00A6FBC4 0001:000B1274 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
BAABDFF6 00A6FBF0 0001:0001CFF6 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDRAW.DLL
BFF63613 00A6FC10 0001:00002613 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
BFF848F7 00A6FC24 0002:0001B8F7 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL


Debug information for each stardock app follows ....

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Tony,

See the thread titled "Trap 5 while changing tech research projects.". It is caused by a problem with the tech file. While I have been
able to edit some of the problem away there are corruptions in the file that I can't edit out. I am hoping that the developers can
provide with a corrected copy of GCTech.TECH quickly.

Cheers,
Jack
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
What kind of corruptions?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Cari,

I started this in the thread "Trap 5 while changing tech research projects.". The first time I clicked on the "Battleship2" tech I got the
trap 5. In examining the tech file I discovered that the "battleship2" tech did not have a keyword that those above it had called
"overview", so I tried to add it (with Notepad). I got a message from Notepad that it could not continue due to lack of memory
so I saved it, reloaded the file into Notepad, and completed the entry. I tried the game with the new copy and it got passed "Battleship2"
to "2DPhasing" and crashed with a trap 5 again. I checked this tech and found that it was aslo missing this keyword, so I tried to add it,
and got the message again from Notepad that it was out of memory. So I saved what I had done and reloaded it into Notepad and completed
the addition of the keyword, saved it, and tried it again. This time I got the "blue pattern with white dots screen of death". I have checked
the rest of the keywords and find that these techs also are missing the overview keyword "number 29", "galactic understanding", and
"4d phylosophy".

So are there really three problems here? 1). missing keyword "overview" in the tech file, 2). Something strange about the file that it messes
up Notepad when we try to edit it, 3) Galciv can't tolerate a missing keyword (instead of putting something in the debug file and skipping
the tech, maybe). And maybe, is there a problem with galciv when it reads the tech file that it does not ensure that the data it reads does
not exceed the buffer it is putting it into (could this be the "... screen of death"s I have been getting?

Cheers,
Jack
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Tony,

Have you been following the posts in the thread "Trap 5 while changing tech research projects."? Go there if you want
a bypass for this problem.

Cheers,
Jack