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[rooshandark8]

Hi everyone as some might remember me from my older thread i have fixed my mass effect stopped working problem (u need to run as admin the masseffect configs as well) and now i landed into another problem The General protection fault and no i donot know how to copy a error if anyone mind telling me how to fix this i will be thankfull and if you need the error please tell me how to copy it. Thank you

[Gorath Alpha]

AFAIK, the majority of those were a result of conflicts with Geforce video drivers older than 1.82 or newer than 1.95

[rooshandark8]

My drivers are fully updated thats like you said could be the problem how to do degrade a driver update or is there any fix for this Thanks for the reply

[Gorath Alpha]

It doesn't cause trouble for all Geforces, but when it does go wrong, it's really wrong.  You may need a "cleaner", but it's so much easier most of the time.  Look in the nVIDIA archives for a 190-something, or 191-something, get a copy, and then go into the Device Manager and tell it that you have taken the Geforce video card out.  Reboot, tell the Wizard to cancel when it starts searching for drivers, and run the older driver's install (it's faster and easier to search for and to test drivers alone, without the rest of the nVIDIA software, until after you know you have a working setup).

[rooshandark8]

still nothing

[rawmeat]

Had the same problem, started the program as administrator then it worked.

[rooshandark8]

1 thanks but that didnot work for me tried it just now and its the STEAM version of the game btw

2 Any one know any other ways to run it i heard its really good

[go_lanche]

I just got ME1 and tried to play and got the gpf error. Is there seriously not just a patch from Bioware or an easy fix for this? I love bioware but am going to be seriously let down if this isn't resolved by now. The forums I have been sifting through seem to have raised the alarm with Chris Preistley over a year ago.

[Gorath Alpha]

If you have a Geforce card, you already have the answer in this thread.  GPFs and the UT3.0 engine go with the pre-1.82 drivers from nVIDIA.  As soon as nVIDIA got off its rump and produced a proper driver, the GPFs seemed over with, given a few rare instances slipping through the cracks, or occurring through failure to CLEAN the old, and bad (at least from a UT3 point of view), drivers out completely.  There may have been some return to that same erronneous prior driver problem with some recent Geforce drivers, but that isn't anything like as all-encompassing as the prior GPFs seemed to be. 

[Sir Shendar]

rooshandark8 wrote...

1 thanks but that didnot work for me tried it just now and its the STEAM version of the game btw
2 Any one know any other ways to run it i heard its really good

Ok... since you have legit Steam version (which uses regular game keys, i. e. they are not tied to Steam platform) you can download or copy your friend's ME disc and use your key to install the game. AFAIK this falls under Fair Use category if you bought the game and did not bypass copy protection. You can find your game key in Steam game menu or ME configuration program under 'Game' tab.

[rooshandark8]

i donot have a friend with ME i bought it off steam though (not pirated)

[Mashiki]

Go into admin tools and post the GPF here, I'll take a look and see if I can puzzle it out.

Depending on what OS you're using you'll have to figure this out:

CLICK:

Control panel>

Administrative tools or System & Security

Event Viewer

Click on Application Logs or System

Look for something with a big red X or big red ! with ERROR in the same line



In the box under you'll see something when you find Masseffect that looks something like this:

Faulting Module or Faulting Application C:\\Program Files\\Bioware\\Mass Effect\\Masseffect.exe

Caused: General Protection Fault in address (whole pile of garbility ******)



Copy all of the stuff in that underbox and post it here. There should be a "copy" button that you can just press.

[T-Dog60]

I'm getting the GPF and this is the text from the actual message, since the message you were talking about won't show up in the event viewer, does this help?

General protection fault
History: GMatrlx2D::Swap() Address — 0x10bb5676 (filename not found)
Address — Ox15fe12e4 (filename not found)

Modifié par T-Dog60, 27 mai 2010 - 03:12 .

[Mashiki]

T-Dog60 wrote...

I'm getting the GPF and this is the text from the actual message, since the message you were talking about won't show up in the event viewer, does this help?

General protection fault
History: GMatrlx2D::Swap() Address — 0x10bb5676 (filename not found)
Address — Ox15fe12e4 (filename not found)

Could be a couple of things, you're running out of vram(video memory), you didn't list your video card so can't be sure.  Anything under 500mb is going to have issues, it could also be an SLI issue.  If you have SLI, ensure that it's set to single card mode.

[Targetlock]

i'm getting the same problem (my laptop is windows 7 by the way originally a 'general protection fault' message but after patch its a 'Mass effect is not responding'. when run through the launcher i get:

General Protection Fault

History: GMatrix 2D:; Swap() Address=0x10bb5ed6 (filename not found) [in D;\\\\Mass effect\\\\Binaries\\\\Mass Effect.exe

is it my laptop? odd as dragon age ran great and i thought it has a similar graphics engine? heres the evnt log if it helps:

Edit: started own topic with this question.

Modifié par Targetlock, 30 mai 2010 - 09:23 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Dragon Age is Bioware's own "Aurora" game engine, and runs poorly on anything from Intel compared to how it runs on anything else from ATI or nVIDIA. 

Mass Effect1 used the UT3 engine, while Mass Effect 2 uses an upgraded version that may be referred to as 3.5 instead of plain Vanilla 3. 

Onboard anything at all is going to choke on either of the Mass Effect games.

[rooshandark8]

And i was thinking bioware had a awesome engine lol well i got it to work just reinstalled the whole windows Thanks guys

[Gorath Alpha]

rooshandark8 wrote...

And i was thinking bioware had a awesome engine lol well i got it to work just reinstalled the whole windows Thanks guys

Whoa!  That seems disproportionately excessive / drastic for curing a game problem, unless anything else was also affected that added up with the inconvenience of not being able to play a game . .

[kikage]

Got the general protection fault error History:Address=0x1eaa0 (filename not found). Already updated my drivers, and I have a 8800GT Nvidia GeForce.

[rooshandark8]

what windows?

[kikage]

I have Windows XP.

[beastly_divizion]

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to set y'all straight. This is NOT, I REPEAT, NOT an Nvidia thing.



I'm running a Sapphire Radeon 5870 in Windows 7 and I get the General Protection Fault error as well...Specifically, I get it in the first mission, On Eden Prime, At the start, As soon as I sprint for more than about 3-5 seconds. I don't get past the swamp with the floationg gas thingies.



Couple that with a "Mass Effect Configuration Utility has stopped responding" EVERY TIME I TRY TO RUN IT and Mass Effect 1 is COMPLETELY unplayable for me.



Tried compatibility mode in both the config util and the game itself, Nadda.

Tried running both the config util and the game as administrator, Nadda.

Tried running both the config util and the game in compatibility mode as administrator, Nadda.

Tried rolling back the video drivers to the earliest usable with my card ala Catalyst 10.3, Nadda.

Tried updating Mass Effect to 1.02, Nadda.

Tried uninstalling Windows, Wiping the hard drive and reinstalling, Nadda.

Though it doesn't need to be said, Tried uninstalling the game and reinstalling, Nadda.

Tried overclocking my GPU to ramp up the 2D speed, Nadda.



The ONLY thing I can think of is that this relates to a "too new" version of DirectX and the game doesn't know what the hell to do with it or how to use it, Making this game, Effectively, Obsolete and redundant.

[cocason]

guys i have the same problem with mass effect 1 i getting the "message"General protection fault!



History: Address = 0x2bd4c148 (filename not found)

what should i do???

[Gorath Alpha]

Whatever else you are doing, this sort of "Me, Too!" comment won't get you any closer to a cure!

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/131/index/2012975

[Cody211282]

I'm having the same problem. It just started about 2 days ago when I had to uninstall then reinstall the game, never have had any problems like this before and was wondering what I could do to fix this.

My specs are:

Windows XP Home Service Pack 3

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3.0 GHz

3.25 GB of DDR2 RAM

Radeon 5670HD 1024MB of DDR5 GRAM, driver version 8.780.0.0, driver date 09/10/2010

Sound Adapter Realtek HD, driver version 5.10.0.6215, driver date 10/5/2010

I have the physical disk



The problem seems to happen just randomly (actually most of the time in in the middle of a conversation with an NPC and the conversation wheel has just popped up) and kick me out of the game, the message I'm getting is:

Rendering thread exception:

General protection fault!



History: Address=0x1159ee15(filename not found)

Address=0x317e7c80(filename not found)





RaiseException() Address=0x7c812afb(file name not found)

CxxThrowException() Address=0x78158e89(filename not found)

GMatrix2D::Swap() Address=0x10da7e83(filename not found)

Address=0xe8781b4c(filename not found)





Any ideas or way to fix this would be very helpful.