Privateer2(WIN95/98):Invalid Page Fault Error PLEEZ HELP!!!

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I've posted this problem before on the forums but no one got back to me but I'm tryin again anyway:) You guys are my only hope. EA is about as helpful as a bucket of sh!t.
Anyway, the problem is when I'm flyin around in space adter about 15 minutes or so doing a mission or something and the game just freezes or crashes to the desktop with the following error:
Application Error C:\Dark\dark.exe



The instruction at 00475534 referenced memory at ffffffff

The memory could not be read from


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DARK caused an invalid page fault in

module DARK.EXE at 0167:00475534.

Registers:

EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=00475534 EFLGS=00010202

EBX=000a0007 SS=016f ESP=0104f9f0 EBP=0104fa4c

ECX=000a0007 DS=016f ESI=01970ee0 FS=14af

EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

38 10 a8 03 74 09 88 10 40 c1 ca 08 49 75 f3 51

Stack dump:

0046bf05 00000000 00000000 0048ce2d 00013fff 00000001 0047a312 00000000 01ac81d0 0009ffe0 00484a87 00000000 00000000 004dcd45 0047cdad 019ee9b0


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DARK caused an invalid page fault in

module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff76846.

Registers:

EAX=010101d4 CS=0167 EIP=bff76846 EFLGS=00010246

EBX=010101d4 SS=016f ESP=01010000 EBP=0101001c

ECX=010100a0 DS=016f ESI=818697ec FS=14af

EDX=bff76855 ES=016f EDI=010100c8 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

ff 55 18 83 c4 10 64 8f 05 00 00 00 00 c9 c3 8b

Stack dump:

010100c8 010101d4 010100e4 010100a0 010101d4 bff76855 010101d4 010100b0 bff87fe9 010100c8 010101d4 010100e4 010100a0 bff76855 01010358 818697ec


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Or the game just freezes/hangs or quits the desktop with a blue screen error when you try to do anything else on the computer


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I have tried ABSOLUTLEY everything (well unless I'm missing something very fundamental ) to fix this problem but to no avail.
I have pretty much disabled my entire computer, harware acceleration, System.ini and Win.ini, closed down background tasks, 256 colour at 640*480 to the extent that nothing else runs on my computer except Privateer 2 (just!!!).
In the game I have disabled all video & animated transsitions as well as all sounds except obviously in movies.

Maybe it's directx right?...I have tried the game on 5 other computers with directx certified drivers and the same problem persists. The only directx issue I can think of is my 39MB page file which might be limiting the virtual memory (or whatever!!!) for the game. If this is the case then how do I change this page file size to something larger.

The only other thing I can think of is in the game itself but since there is no more origin or anyone who can release a patch for this what the heck can one do?

PLEEZ can someone help. I have been trying to play this game for 5 years and I still havent finished it!!!
 
Have you considered that your copy of the game might be bad? I can run priv 2 in 98se with little problems...I did have to download a cpu killer program so I could run it at a decent speed. From time to time during a movie the program would lock up...but you shouldn't have to do anything super special to your pc to run the game. Just create an MS-DOS shortcut that forces the program to run under windows...that should be enough.
 
Bad! U can say that again...evil more like it ;)
The version that I'm running is the delux edition Windows version that has been patched by the original DOS patch and then converted to be able to run in Windows. I have no problems in movies or when I'm on a planet - it's only in space flight.
 
Invalid page fault errors are hard to find. It can be something not loaded properly, a bad/invalid pointer in memory, bad hardware, bad drivers...
In your case, the fffffff probably means a invalid pointer. (Like bad programming or bad loading)
 
Does this always happen or did it only start midgame. P2 is known for being rather unstable. Especially when being in Disk2. I usually had crashes about once every 2 hours.
 
It happens on all 3 CDs.
With regards to the invalid pointer at ffffffff, it does sound like quite a strange memory reference which is probably due to bad programming. In that case, who would I contact (EA/Origin past staff) in order to get a patch or some kind of solution?
 
You can get the full staff here , but it will be hard to find someone to fix it, since EA didn't reach their financial predictions for the last quarter. They *only* had net revenues of $716 million. :p
I think the windows version was in 16bits (Windows 3.1) instead of 32bits (Win95). It could be a function not fully supported by Windows. Also, I had a few problems once with a Dos game by having too much memory. So I had to drop from 64mb to 32mb or 16mb the XMS memory. :confused:
I found something about booting in Dos using a USB thumb drive. Maybe that could help. http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php
 
Had the same problem 5 month ago.

I made a few decisions on aplanet, saved and then every 10-15 minutes the game crashed with this error.

I loaded an older savegame (I always have several savegames just to be sure) and everything worked fine...
 
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