Vanguard crash

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

So Vanguard has been working fine since it was purchased. All the sudden Vanguard problem and I don't know what to do now. the game was un and re-installed. It patches, and then it begins to load but gets no further then the splash screen, then it crashes into an "Unrecoverable Error" with no other message.

This is installed on a Dell Inspirion 530s with 2 gigs of RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD 2400 with a Duel CPU E2180 Processor @ 2ghz

Like I said the game's been reinstalled and patched and I just don't know what else to do about it. I'm sort of interested in actual ideas (as opposed to "Don't play Vanguard") since it worked just fine until today.

[Fallakin Kuvari]

updated your graphics drivers lately?

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

First thing i did bfore i did a reinstall

[Fallakin Kuvari]

so you hadn't updated drivers before it started happening?

(mainly trying to see if it were a problem introduced by new drivers)

http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/forum ... orum_id=48

I skimmed over the first page, nothing caught my eye (I'd look a little harder, but writing a paper right now too)

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

the drivers were all up to date, they were updated when the game was first installed, and since i didn't do anything else... EQ2 runs fine, i think it's a VG specific problem, but i just am not quite sure wtf the problem is to even begind. I could wipe the whole system but that seems a bit extreme

[Fallakin Kuvari]

post your VGclient.log if you can find it, please.

Also, if you have a character selected that you're trying to log straight into theres a known bug out there about that... choose no character and try logging in.

[Freecare Spiritwise]

IIRC, Vanguard has an option to do a complete file scan of the install. Did you try that?

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

Didn't work Fall, and no Freecare i haven't yet, will try it now

[Fallakin Kuvari]

VGclient.log would help a lot too when you get a chance.

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: ====================================================
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Log opened.
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: Name subsystem initialized
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: Detected: Microsoft Windows Vista 6.0 (Build: 6000)
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: Compiled: Nov 3 2008 16:00:41
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: Threadsafe Core: No
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: Base directory: C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\bin\
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: Character set: Unicode
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: DevLoad: Bound to IpDrv.dll
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: DevLoad: Bound to Engine.dll
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: DevLoad: Bound to Core.dll
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: DevLoad: Bound to Window.dll
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: DevLoad: Bound to SGOUnrealAbstractionLayer.dll
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: Object subsystem initialized
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: Computer: RACPC
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: User: rac
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: CPU Page size=4096, Processors=2
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: CPU Detected: GenuineIntel
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: CPU Features: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3
[11/11/08 22:44:14] INFO: Init: CPU Speed=1995.125050 MHz
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: WMI: cpu: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz | ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model F Stepping D
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: WMI: Display: ATI Radeon HD 2400 256 MB 1280 x 1024 @ 60 mHz
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: WMI: Motherboard: Dell Inc. 0RY007
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: WMI: OS: Microsoft Windows NT 6.0
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: WMI: Model: Dell Inc. Inspiron 530s
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: WMI: CPU - Logical: 2 | Physical: 1 | Frequency: 2.000 gHz | L1 Cache: 32k code 32k data | L2 Cache: 1024k | L3 Cache: 0k | Bus Freq: 200 mHz
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: WMI: Memory: 2045 MB @ 667 MHz | Free: 1558 MB
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: Memory total: Phys=2094656K Pagef=0K Virt=4413616K
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: Working set: 32000 / 159000
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: Process Info: Peak Memory Used: 28860 Working Set: 28848 PageFile: 29656
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: Added all subdirectories and cached all files in 0.021000 seconds
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: Loaded archive ..\Assets\Archives\binaryprefabs.sgo containing 19409 files
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: Loaded archive ..\Assets\Archives\binshaders.sgo containing 64 files
[11/11/08 22:44:17] INFO: Init: Loaded archive ..\Assets\Archives\textdata.sgo containing 5 files
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: Unreal engine initialized
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: Client initialized
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: Direct3D adapters detected:
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: ATI Radeon HD 2400 (atiumdag.dll)
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: Video memory on board: 245
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: AGP support detected
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: PixelShaderVersion=3.0
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: VertexShaderVersion=3.0
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: MaxTextureBlendStages=8
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: MaxSimultaneousTextures=8
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: MaxActiveLights=8
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: MaxPrimitiveCount=5592405
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: MaxVertexIndex=16777215
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: MaxStreams=16
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: MaxStreamStride=508
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: MaxVertexShaderConst=256
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Lighting buffer format: D3DFMT_A16B16G16R16F
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Lighting buffer supports Framebuffer Blending
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Device supports HW Shadow Maps
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Device supports FP Filtering
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports Shader Detail Level: 5
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Device supports Shader Model 3
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Using w- pixel fog
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports trilinear
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: using cubemaps [with mipmaps]
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports BLENDDIFFUSEALPHA
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports LOD biasing
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports Z biasing
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports D3DTOP_ADDSIGNED2X
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports D3DTOP_BUMPENVMAP
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports D3DTOP_BUMPENVMAPLUMINANCE
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports D3DTOP_DOTPRODUCT3
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports D3DTOP_MODULATEALPHA_ADDCOLOR
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: Supports D3DTOP_MODULATECOLOR_ADDALPHA
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: szDriver=atiumdag.dll
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: szDescription=ATI Radeon HD 2400
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: wProduct=7
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: wVersion=14
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: wSubVersion=10
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: wBuild=603
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: dwVendorId=4098
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: dwDeviceId=38083
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: dwSubSysId=67244072
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Device: dwRevision=0
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: D3D Detected: ATI video card.
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: GPUs detected: 1.
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: (Karma): Initializing Karma for game.
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: WinSock: version 2.2 (2.2), MaxSocks=0, MaxUdp=0
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Log: Trying to connect to LoginServer at vanguardlogin1.soe.sony.com port 9000 ...
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Init: WinSock: I am rac-PC (98.192.250.134)
[11/11/08 22:44:19] NETWORK: DevNet: Resolved vanguardlogin1.soe.sony.com (64.37.177.249)
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Log: Level is Level Entry.MyLevel
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Log: Bringing Level Entry.MyLevel up for play...
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Log: Browse: loading_screen.vgr?Seamless=1?SingleChunk=0?Class=SGOUnrealAbstractionLayer.SGOPCPawn?CinematicEntry=1
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Log: Level is Level loading_screen.MyLevel
[11/11/08 22:44:19] INFO: Log: Bringing Level loading_screen.MyLevel up for play...
[11/11/08 22:44:20] INFO: Log: * * INITIAL LEVEL LOAD COMPLETE
[11/11/08 22:44:20] INFO: Init: Enumerating sound devices...
[11/11/08 22:44:20] INFO: Init: Found 1 audio devices:
[11/11/08 22:44:20] INFO: Init: Generic Software
[11/11/08 22:44:20] INFO: Init: ALAudio: subsystem initialized.
[11/11/08 22:44:31] WARN: Warning: Missing StaticMesh StaticMesh FX_Meshes002.FX_mesh_KamelotGearLogo001 imported from file ..\Assets\Meshes\FX_Meshes002.usx referenced by .\FXmystical.u
[11/11/08 22:44:31] INFO: Init: Input system initialized for WindowsViewport
[11/11/08 22:44:31] INFO: Log: Opened viewport
[11/11/08 22:44:31] INFO: Log: Attempting to set resolution: 1280x1024 (Fullscreen)
[11/11/08 22:44:31] INFO: Init: Best-match display mode: 1280x1024x32@75
[11/11/08 22:44:31] INFO: Log: Using 32-bit back-buffer format (22)
[11/11/08 22:44:31] INFO: Log: Using 32-bit depth-buffer format (75)
[11/11/08 22:44:31] INFO: Log: FSAA support: 4x. Floating-point FSAA: 4x.
[11/11/08 22:44:31] INFO: Log: Creating device
[11/11/08 22:44:32] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: CreateDevice: successfully created after 1 attempt(s).
[11/11/08 22:44:32] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: CreateDevice: will use hardware transform and lighting.
[11/11/08 22:44:32] INFO: Init: D3D Driver: CreateDevice: will use hardware vertex processing
[11/11/08 22:44:53] ERROR: Error: Creating shader PS_UberShader: D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: FD3DPixelShader::Serialize
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: UD3DRenderDevice::SerializeCompiledShaders
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: UD3DRenderDevice::LoadCompiledShadersFromFile
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: UD3DRenderDevice::Flush
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: SetViewport
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: UD3DRenderDevice::Lock
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: UViewport::Lock
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: UWindowsViewport::Lock
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: Vignette::_Draw
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: Vignette::Draw
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: UGameEngine::Init
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Critical: InitEngine
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Exit: Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError
[11/11/08 22:44:53] FATAL: Exit: Executing UWindowsClient::ShutdownAfterError
[11/11/08 22:44:54] FATAL: Exit: OpenAL Audio subsystem shut down.




Shader fail ?

[Fallakin Kuvari]

D3D failure...

run a dxdiag and post the results.

[Kulaf]

PS_UberShader is a call to the Pixel Shader. I used to do a lot of volunteer tech support for VG back when I actually gave a crap about the game. My guess is DX9 had been removed from your system. Did you do any kind of System Restore or anything like that? I do not believe VG supports DX10 so you still need to install the DX9 install for Vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

[Ddrak]

Reinstall DirectX (from http://www.microsoft.com/directx)
Reinstall the latest Radeon driver (http://ati.amd.com)

Should fix it.

[Fallakin Kuvari]

Yeah, what Dd said should work... I'm just overly curious when it comes to tech logs.... >.>

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

Actually posted this for b/f, we checked the VG forums and found an issue with shaders to change the value to False. He messed around with it a bit... then it works !

Nothing out of the ordinary was done. He was the last person to play, i hadn't touched EQ2 since he played last (which probably doesn't mean anything, but sometimes it does I reckon) and it just ... crashed. So there was a reinstall. I knew there was something we messed with in the INI files for eq, then i remembered it was the UI's that had to have new folders and such, and there was osmething else... anyway it all wurky now =)

I asked about DX too but no one wants to listen to me.

You guys were very helpful, thank you =)

and thank you Fall =)

[Taxious]

He was the last person to play, i hadn't touched EQ2 since he played last (which probably doesn't mean anything, but sometimes it does I reckon) and it just ... crashed.

He needs to stop looking at pr0n imo...

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

Pr0n wouldn't affect the settings for VG unless you were watching super high quality pr0n, and you have to pay for that i'm sure =D

[Ddrak]

Pr0n wouldn't affect the settings for VG unless you were watching super high quality pr0n, and you have to pay for that i'm sure =D

Nah. Just have to know the right trackers.

Dd