SH3 crashes with Vista and you have no clue? At least I got the error data now!

[Amiral Crapaud]

Okay people.
Sorry to spam, opening a new thread again about that stuff - but considering it's new stuff I never saw before, and that it has nothing to do with the updating issue, well I thought it may be interesting to have a dedicated discussion about it.

Ok. Remember (or whatever ) Ive got Vista, with all user limitations/admin stuff removed (whatever I do, I am the admin). SF is updated. Patching is fine. BUT, SH3 would always crash to desktop once the loading bar is full, the moment the main menu should appear. Whatever version I may use (1.0, 1.4, 1.4+GWX 2.0) it is always the same issue.

But just now I finally figured out where he was hiding the errors data. And Ive got a full report, for a change!

Here it is:

Signature du problème
Nom d’événement du problème : APPCRASH
Nom de l’application: sh3.exe
Version de l’application: 1.4.0.1
Horodatage de l'application: 32ce8647
Nom du module par défaut: Secur32.dll
Version du module par défaut: 6.0.6000.16386
Horodateur du module par défaut: 4549bdd2
Code de l’exception: c0000005
Décalage de l’exception: 000021f4
Version du système: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.6
Identificateur de paramètres régionaux: 1036
Information supplémentaire n° 1: e027
Information supplémentaire n° 2: 7ca034c5f54228c5d20e084e35159a90
Information supplémentaire n° 3: 7c42
Information supplémentaire n° 4: bdfde76c128bc8007795db177acd2a17

Which, put into english may read like something like this:

Signature du problème
Problem event name : APPCRASH
Application name: sh3.exe
Application version: 1.4.0.1
Time/date data: 32ce8647
Default module name: Secur32.dll
Default module version: 6.0.6000.16386
Default module time/date data: 4549bdd2
Code of exception: c0000005
Exception lag: 000021f4
System version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.6
Regional parameters identification: 1036
Additional information n° 1: e027
Additional information n° 2: 7ca034c5f54228c5d20e084e35159a90
Additional information n° 3: 7c42
Additional information n° 4: bdfde76c128bc8007795db177acd2a17

Ok. Now that's brand new for me, and maybe for others, because

We may have found the nasty boy, he's very well known to everyone who ever used Windows and his name is...

Default module name: Secur32.dll

and his version number is

Default module version: 6.0.6000.16386

and his usual job is, if I am not mistaken, to have the background stuff running
on your Windows OS.

Now i need to ask to any benevolent Vista user here if he may make a contribution. I am interested in SH3.exe non-operational AND operational cases.

I'd need him to go and look for Secur32.dll and tell us what is its version (properties of the file > details). Don't forget to activate the "include hidden files and folders" stuff before the research

If he could tell us what is his status this way (here is my data as an example)

OS version: Vista Pro 32 bits
Secur32.dll version: 6.0.6000.16386
SH3 version: 1.4.0.1
Does SH work? : NO

So we may quickly see if the issues of people like me have anything to do with Secur32.dll version number. If not, it has probably something to do with the local configuration then...


Well if anyone has any more clues around here he's welcome! For the time being, thanks in advance to the other Vista users who may accept to share their data.

AJ