Problem Starting Any Game

[Phaid]

I have the standalone copy Defcon supplied on CD from Introversion and it worked fine on my old machine. I have now upgraded to a new machine running Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit edition and it just won't work.

The game will get to the main menu and says I have the latest version but if I select new game or join game then it freezes.

My graphics card driver, sound card driver and directx are all the latest versions. In line with the sticky post at the top, here is all the information requested.

There is no blackbox.txt file in the Defcon directory but here are the contents of the debug.txt file

Defcon 1.43 built Jul 2 2007
Parsing archive main.dat...DONE
WinSock started
Client listening on port 5011
Parsing Coastline data (1776 islands) : 19ms
Parsing International data (2753 islands) : 8ms
Parsing City data (2745 cities) : 10ms
Parsing archive sounds.dat...DONE
Authentication key set :
WinSock started
Connection established to MetaServer, listening on Port 5009
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
Received data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
Received data from MetaServer : MOTD
Requesting authentication of key
Received Authentication : (keyID 57075) : Accepted
Authentication HashToken set to -891810257
Requesting data from MetaServer : UpdateURL
Received data from MetaServer : UpdateURL
Parsing Coastline data (1776 islands) : 20ms
Parsing Coastline data (1776 islands) : 20ms
Started requesting public IP:port for socket 436
Socket 436 identified as public IP 90.201.47.85:5011


Here is the further information you need along with info from dxdiag

Defcon type (Steam or standalone) - Standalone
Operating System - Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit
Processor - Intel Core 2 Extreme x9770
Memory - 2046Mb
DirectX version - 10

Display
Chip Type - nVidia GeForce 9800 GX2
Approx. Total Memory - 1269 Mb
Main Driver - nvd3dumx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2umx.dll, nvwgf2um
Version - 7.15.0011.7792
Date - 8/15/2008

Sound 1
Device Name - Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
Driver Name - ctaud2k.sys
Version - 6.00.0001.1344
Date - 8/6/2008


Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[frenchfrog]

To be honest, the game haven't been tested for 64 bits, currently I don't think any of the devs have a 64 bits Windows.

Crash on new game or join game are most of the time network related,

I would perhaps try to update your network card drivers,

Add Defcon to your firewall(s)?

Does it simply hang or crash with a Windows error dialog? (If you get the dialog please get a screenshot with the option to get more information about the crash)

[Phaid]

It is not just join or new game, it even does it on Tutorial. My firewall is setup to allow it and I have the latest network card drivers so it's not that.

It just hangs there and the sound cuts out. If I press ctrl alt and delete and select task manager then it comes up with a pop up window that just says

"Defcon has stopped working

A Problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."

It just has a close program button on the dialog box.

I have tried the various compatibility modes under the properties for the executable but all options give the same error.

Latest debug.txt has a couple of extra lines which are as follows:-

CLIENT : Disconnected
EclRemoveWindow failed on window LOBBY


Hope all this helps.

[frenchfrog]

Tutorial also use the network part.

"Defcon has stopped working

A Problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."

Is there on that dialog a link/button to get more information? If yes, could you post what it tells you exactly (with screenshot?).

Which Anti-virus/Firewall/Anti-spyware/content-filtering are you using? (Does disabling them helps?)

[Phaid]

There isn't a dialog box to get further information but here is what I have found in the problem history for when it crashes

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: defcon.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.1
Application Timestamp: 468a821b
Fault Module Name: BfLLR.dll
Fault Module Version: 4.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 482b1616
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00002cd2
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 880149799


I am using Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 and Comodo Pro Firewall. Disabling both of these does not help with the issue.

[bert_the_turtle]

The crash comes from BFLLR.DLL, and this page says it's part of your network card driver. The problem is probably with them. I think you should file a support request with Bigfoot; they should be able to debug the problem and, if they can't solve it, tell IV what exactly they're doing wrong.

Thread about the same problem: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon ... php?t=6276

Side note: I personaly think the KillerNIC is a scam (by that I mean it doesn't do anything you can't get cheaper by getting a better CPU, unless of course you have the best CPU money can buy), and I find it questionable that they modify the system with a DLL instead of doing things in the driver (of course, that's the whole idea of the thing, but then they should make it work.)

[Braddock]

I had the same problem, but was able to fix it by reinstalling and patching to 1.42, not 1.43. The only difference between 1.42 and 1.43 is an exploit fix, but I think you can still play with people who have 1.43.

Beats me what is causing the issue, but it must be something in the 1.43 patch.