Evocron Crash at start up (win7 64bit)

OrgyMeyer · Post by **OrgyMeyer** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:31 am

Hey I'm having a similar problem. Evochron Mercenary won't start. Evochron Legends ran fine, but Mercenary is having an issue. It was working a few months ago, and I went to try and play it today and it comes back with this error.

EvochronMercenary.exe - Application Error

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005). Click
OK to close the application.

I've tried uninstalling it and video drivers and rebooted and scanned my memory. Ran registry fixes and everything. Still nothing.

[Edited on 1-25-2011 by Vice]

GORF · Post by **GORF** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:13 pm

From post: 100048, Topic: tid=4087, author=OrgyMeyer wrote:Hey I'm having a similar problem. Evochron Mercenary won't start. Evochron Legends ran fine, but Mercenary is having an issue. It was working a few months ago, and I went to try and play it today and it comes back with this error.

EvochronMercenary.exe - Application Error

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005). Click
OK to close the application.

I've tried uninstalling it and video drivers and rebooted and scanned my memory. Ran registry fixes and everything. Still nothing.

Just had a sim. prob w/avast and this error , I removed avast and shut down uac ,and now game runs .....gonna experiment latter today.

Not sure if it was uac ,[game was installed and running fine until i did fresh install of avast ......then game stopped running and got same error .

Capt_Caveman · Post by **Capt_Caveman** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:05 pm

win 7x64 gave me problems playing merc also, I finally gave up and went to winxp64.

MMaggio · Post by **MMaggio** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:47 pm

YAY ! Win XP FOREVER!

Post by **Marvin** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:37 pm

Ditto.

Post by **Vice** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:22 am

My e-mail reply offered some suggestions. As another step, you can also try to install the redistributable package for Visual C++ here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/d ... laylang=en

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:36 am

I have Windows 7 64 bit Professional and Mercenary runs much better on it than on Windows XP 32 bit. I have dual boot with Windows XP 32bit and Windows 7 64 bit Pro.....

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:08 am

My son got it to run on Windows 7 ... but I'm not about to go back to college just to use an OS I don't need.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:11 am

LOL...Marv....Learning curve to steep?..........

:P

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:14 am

It didn't work. So I gave the computer to my son. He calls the next day and says the game runs fine.

OrgyMeyer · Post by **OrgyMeyer** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:02 am

From post: 100072, Topic: tid=7168, author=GORF wrote:
From post: 100048, Topic: tid=4087, author=OrgyMeyer wrote:Hey I'm having a similar problem. Evochron Mercenary won't start. Evochron Legends ran fine, but Mercenary is having an issue. It was working a few months ago, and I went to try and play it today and it comes back with this error.

EvochronMercenary.exe - Application Error

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005). Click
OK to close the application.

I've tried uninstalling it and video drivers and rebooted and scanned my memory. Ran registry fixes and everything. Still nothing.

Just had a sim. prob w/avast and this error , I removed avast and shut down uac ,and now game runs .....gonna experiment latter today.

Not sure if it was uac ,[game was installed and running fine until i did fresh install of avast ......then game stopped running and got same error .

This! Yes I recently reinstalled AVG and Avast so perhaps that was it also. I turned off uac and I can always remove Avast for testing purposes as well. I've been trying everything that Vice suggested in his email and I'm running a SFC scan as I type. I'll keep you guys informed and let ya know when I get it working.

OrgyMeyer · Post by **OrgyMeyer** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:15 am

Got it working, at least I think I do, going to go test it out right away, but it got to the loading screen without error which is progress at least!

Going to go try it out now, but it was either sfc.exe /scannow, turning off UAC or uninstalling AVAST. Also might have been the C++ redistributable as well. I rebooted after all that and it just worked!

I'm downloading Avast right now so we'll see if reinstalling that has any issues or not. I can always use AVG instead...

See you guys out there and thanks to everyone for your suggestions. Not sure which one worked but the shotgun approach

OrgyMeyer · Post by **OrgyMeyer** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:41 am

Ok so I installed AVAST again and it caused the error. I think we've figured this one out. I'll try out AVG and see how that works.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:46 am

LOL...good to know.......I will avoid Avast.......Let me know about AVG.....

:P

Post by **Vice** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:04 pm

Looks like the problem started when Avast updated their program recently. Older installations were not effected, but fresh installs with the latest program version could introduce the 0xC0000005 error. The problem effected more than just this game, causing a number of programs to not be able to launch. Avast has apparently fixed the problem and has made a revised version available:

http://forum.avast.com/http://www.starw ... ic.php?t=5

It seems there may still be some lingering problems with the latest program verion(s) of Avast and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 based on the discussions taking place in their forum. Downgrading to program version 5.0.667 seems to fix most of the reported problems. If you encounter any further problems with their software, you can contact them via that forum or through their contact page.

[Edited on 1-17-2011 by Vice]

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:50 pm

I have Avast 5.0.677 on my XP and my Win7 Pro @ 64 Bit with no problems (knock on wooden head) so far. I will remember to NOT update those for now.

I did download the new 5.1.889 just now but will save it.

[Edited on 1-17-2011 by thetiebers]

Post by **Vice** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:39 pm

Just confirmed that the new Avast program update effects 32-bit versions of Windows 7 as well, not just 64-bit. All kinds of programs stop working.

GORF · Post by **GORF** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:04 pm

From post: 100337, Topic: tid=7168, author=Vice wrote: Just confirmed that the new Avast program update effects 32-bit versions of Windows 7 as well, not just 64-bit. All kinds of programs stop working.

thnx V,

i just did my first win7 install , lets just say Avast has given me a special win 7 exp.

Post by **Vice** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:44 pm

Seems the update is also totally crashing/crippling Windows XP systems as well. It's bad enough that 0xc0000005 errors would occur with various programs, but interfering with bootup is pretty serious. I highly recommend anyone encountering problems with Avast report those problems to them in their forum or via their e-mail support.

Post by **Vice** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:32 am

I'm in contact with them and will post details of any solutions/updates in this thread.

DX101 · Post by **DX101** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:16 am

Wow, shit REALY hit the fan with Avast... good thing i use McAfee, a NOT so free Anti-Viri software xD

GORF · Post by **GORF** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:51 pm

Updated to newest ver. today on my xp32 machine , no problems so far:)

? is now will it still mess up with win7 64 ?

Post by **Vice** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:05 pm

On XP, it sometimes seems to work fine for a while, then a reboot later encounters the problems. With Windows 7, the problems often occur immediately after the update when trying to launch programs (web browser, e-mail, games, etc). Some systems encounter no problems, some encounter them. Doesn't seem to be a firm way yet to determine how a system will respond short of completing the update and testing it.

GORF · Post by **GORF** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:25 pm

Update, My xp32 machine is still working well w/newest version and updates.

On my win7 machine I decided to run win security ,so far so good ,I had noticed that avast no longer covered real time web protection on their free version ,so Instead of running 2 av,s I opted to try the win av software

Post by **Vice** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:06 pm

Did they remove/disable the web shield in 5.1.889? I wasn't aware that they had changed that at all. That would be a pretty big negative change.