RE: Help with a game - Miles Sound System

["Ritchie, Rob" <rdritchi@bechtel.com>]

Trevor,

I have had similar problems before with certain software. And as Technical
as this is:

a reinstall of the operating system worked in most cases.

Sorry I can't offer anything more.

Rob.

Rob Ritchie
Project Systems Developer
mailto:rdritchi@bechtel.com
Bechtel International


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Trevor Lindsay [SMTP:trevor.lindsay2@sympatico.ca]
> Sent:	Friday, June 30, 2000 9:44 AM
> To:	gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
> Subject:	Help with a game - Miles Sound System
> 
> Hey Game Progers.  Figured I would dump this question on you since I have
> had
> no luck getting any response from the Tech support people at Novalogic.
> 
> This problem likely requires knowledge about the Miles Sound System to
> solve.
> 
> I recently purchased Tachyon: The Fringe, and have been unable to get the
> game
> to successfully run.
> 
> My system specifications are:
> Pentium II 233
> 128 megs ram
> ATI All-In-Wonder 128 - 16 meg - Latest drivers installed
> Creative Labs, Soundblaster Live  - Latest drivers installed
> Windows 98, DirectX 7
> 
> The following occurs when I attempt to play the game:
> 1: Use any method to start program (auto play, start menu icon,
>     Tachyon.exe strait from the install directory)
> 2: Computer thinks for around 10 seconds.
> 3: Error message "Tachyon.exe performed an Illegal operation" is
>     received.
>     Additional Error Message Details:
>    TACHYON caused an invalid page fault in
>    module MSSRSX.M3D at 016f:22d0be4b.
>    Registers:
>    EAX=00000000 CS=016f EIP=22d0be4b EFLGS=00010202
>    EBX=00000000 SS=0177 ESP=0073f814 EBP=00000014
>    ECX=00000000 DS=0177 ESI=22d52068 FS=221f
>    EDX=00000000 ES=0177 EDI=01bc0de0 GS=0000
>    Bytes at CS:EIP:
>    8b 10 6a 00 51 8b 4e 04 51 8b 0e 51 50 ff 52 38
>    Stack dump:
>    00000010 0073f858 22d02326 01bc0de0 22d52068 00000010
>    00000001 22d02fdd 0073f858 00000000 00000000 00000000
>    00000003 0450f0a8 0450f020 00000000
> 
> I have taken the following correctionary measures in an attempt to get
> the game to work:
> 1: Reinstalled the Game at least 3 times
> 2: Reinstalled the game to multiple drives
> 3: I have also downloaded and installed the latest patch from the
> Novalogic website.
> 4: Reinstalled all the drivers for my soundcard - see below
> 5: Checked DirectX Diagnostics which reports no errors.
> 
>    I did some checking and the File MSSRSX.M3D mentioned
> in the Error Message Details says it is a part of the Miles Sound
> System (I checked under properties using right click). After digging
> around I have come to the conclusion that the MSSRSX.M3D
> module is not the problem (I DL'd the Miles Sound System Demo
> from their website and replaced the file in question as a test with
> same results).
>    After reinstalling sound drivers with no change either I am
> guessing that the fault lies in a Sound resource file for the game
> which is corrupt and therefore causing the Miles Sound module to
> crash.
> 
> Any suggestions on weather my hunch is correct or not?
> 
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