stepmania, mamewah and video card

[dj_jon]

Hi all....short time user new time poster:-)

Anyways.....I have downloaded new version of stepmania and installed on my laptop to experiment with. This is running XP and a MAME front end called Mamewah. This works fine.

BUT when I try to use Stepmania with Mamewah on 98 it causes an access violation.

Video card is a Nvidia Geforce2, this seems to be the problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks
DJ_Jon

[Minwah]

A few things to try (on the '98 machine):

Try Stepmania (not running via MAMEWAH),
Try MAMEWAH with another emulator (MAME?) - see if the error still occurs.

I doubt your video card is the problem...it could be an issue with Win98 & MAMEWAH - at what point exactly do you get the error?

[dj_jon]

The error occurs after I press 1 to start stepmania. Everything else works. Stepmania creates a crashlog. Here it is below:

Crash reason: Access Violation

Thread fffcbdd3 (Main thread)
        RageThreads.cpp:184
Thread fffb212b (Mixer thread)
        arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_DSound.cpp:47
        arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_DSound.cpp:54
        arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_DSound.cpp:47
        arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_DSound.cpp:54
        arch\Sound\RageSoundDriver_DSound.cpp:47

bff7a138: KERNEL32!GetDateFormatA [bff70000+7f6f+21c9]
bff7b31d: KERNEL32!IsBadHugeWritePtr [bff70000+a5be+d5f]
bff7b962: KERNEL32!IsBadHugeWritePtr [bff70000+a5be+13a4]
bff74a5c: KERNEL32!LocalFree [bff70000+49d0+8c]
695dd52f: NVOPENGL!69500000
69714532: NVOPENGL!69500000
695dd13d: NVOPENGL!69500000
10023166: SDL!SDL_FreeWAV [10000000+22dc0+3a6]
bff728a2: KERNEL32!QT_Thunk [bff70000+27d9+c9]
bff51596: USER32!SetWindowPos [bff50000+156b+2b]
bff51653: USER32!AdjustWindowRectEx [bff50000+161b+38]
bff7152e: KERNEL32!Ordinal45 [bff70000+1414+11a]
bff52526: USER32!PaintDesktop [bff50000+2513+13]
100121e3: SDL!SDL_WarpMouse [10000000+fb50+2693]
1001220e: SDL!SDL_WarpMouse [10000000+fb50+26be]
1001fcdc: SDL!SDL_SetVideoMode [10000000+1fb40+19c]
0048caf6: virtual class CStdStr<char>  LowLevelWindow_SDL::TryVideoMode(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams,bool &)
004803be: RageDisplay::VideoModeParams::VideoModeParams(struct VideoModeParams::VideoModeParams const &)
004c9079: virtual class CStdStr<char>  RageDisplay_OGL::TryVideoMode(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams,bool &)
004028f8: CStdStr<char>::CStdStr<char>(class CStdStr<char> const &)
004803be: RageDisplay::VideoModeParams::VideoModeParams(struct VideoModeParams::VideoModeParams const &)
7c08269d: MSVCP70!Atexit [7c080000+266b+32]
7c08739b: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::assign [7c080000+7320+7b]
7c0873a6: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::assign [7c080000+7320+86]
7c0875c1: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > [7c080000+75a8+19]
004028f8: CStdStr<char>::CStdStr<char>(class CStdStr<char> const &)
004803be: RageDisplay::VideoModeParams::VideoModeParams(struct VideoModeParams::VideoModeParams const &)
004c1e0a: bool RageDisplay::SetVideoMode(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams)
004c8395: RageDisplay_OGL::RageDisplay_OGL(struct RageDisplay::VideoModeParams,bool)
00480514: class LowLevelWindow * MakeLowLevelWindow(void)
0047f397: class RageDisplay * CreateDisplay(void)
7c0010d8: MSVCR70!EH_prolog [7c000000+1000+d8]
7c0010fa: MSVCR70!malloc [7c000000+10eb+f]
005152e1: void * operator new(unsigned int)
7c081ecc: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::_Tidy [7c080000+1ea8+24]
7c081c72: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::~basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > [7c080000+1c6b+7]
0040121f: CStdStr<char>::~CStdStr<char>(void)
7c081ecc: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::_Tidy [7c080000+1ea8+24]
7c081c72: MSVCP70!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::~basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > [7c080000+1c6b+7]
0040121f: CStdStr<char>::~CStdStr<char>(void)
0047e861: void ReadGamePrefsFromDisk(bool)
bff7469c: KERNEL32!InterlockedExchangeAdd [bff70000+43ca+2d2]
0048125a: virtual LoadingWindow_Win32::~LoadingWindow_Win32(void)
0047fd4c: SDL_main()
bff88698: KERNEL32!RtlUnwind [bff70000+18388+310]
00515bb9: main()
00515d01: WinMain@16()
005159ab: WinMainCRTStartup()
bff8b560: KERNEL32!IsDBCSLeadByte [bff70000+1af78+5e8]
bff7b326: KERNEL32!IsBadHugeWritePtr [bff70000+a5be+d68]
bff8b412: KERNEL32!IsDBCSLeadByte [bff70000+1af78+49a]

Static log:
StepMania 3.9 alpha 7
Last compiled on Wed Oct  1 23:24:04 2003.
Compiled Thu Oct 09 04:03:46 2003 (build 17968)
Loading window: win32
Windows 4.10 (Win98) build 2222 [ A ]
Memory: 255mb total, 1792mb swap (1746mb swap avail)
Primary display driver: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200
Video Driver Information:
Provider       :   NVIDIA
Description    :   NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200
Version        :   4.0
Date           :   09-14-2001
DeviceID       :   PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0111&SUBSYS_00000000
Sound device 0: C-Media Wave Device, 5.0, MID 1, PID 100
DirectSound Driver: Primary Sound Driver ()
DirectSound Driver: C-Media Wave Device (cmuda.sys)
    ID: {bd6dd71a-3deb-11d1-83046728}
Sound driver: DirectSound
Video renderers: 'opengl,d3d'
Language:
Current renderer: OpenGL
Theme: default

Partial log:
INI: Reading 'Themes/default/metrics.ini'
INI: Reading 'Themes/default/metrics.ini'
INI: Reading 'Themes/default/Languages/english.ini'
INI: Reading 'Themes/default/Languages/english.ini'
INI: Reading 'Themes/default/Languages/english.ini'
INI: Reading 'Themes/default/Languages/english.ini'
Last seen video driver: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200
Card matches 'GeForce|Radeon'.
Video renderers: 'opengl,d3d'
RageDisplay_OGL::RageDisplay_OGL()

Don't really know what all this means....But once I fix this problem my worries are over.

Mamewah rocks and Ipaq rocks:-)

[Minwah]

I've not idea what that means either...but try running Stepmania NOT thru MAMEWAH - post what happens...