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Posted May 15, 2012
when I try to run the game all I get is an error window reading: EXCEPTION: Access violation
This question / problem has been solved by Skheartimage
Posted May 15, 2012
yep same here no joy
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Dare: when I try to run the game all I get is an error window reading: EXCEPTION: Access violation
Posted May 15, 2012
What OS/cpu/graphics card are you using?
Posted May 15, 2012
windows XP / Nvidea GeForce 6800 XT
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timeslip: What OS/cpu/graphics card are you using?
Posted May 15, 2012
This thread from way-back-when seems to suggest that using 3DAnalyze and/or CPU Killer will help, though using 3DAnalyze alone didn't work for me, and I can't run CPU Killer to test with both.
Posted May 15, 2012
It didn't work for the cd-rom version and it doesn't seem to work for gog version as well
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Skheart: This thread from way-back-when seems to suggest that using 3DAnalyze and/or CPU Killer will help, though using 3DAnalyze alone didn't work for me, and I can't run CPU Killer to test with both.
Posted May 15, 2012
I've the original disks of this game, and never got to work on XP or later systems.

I hoped GoG could do so ... :-|
Posted May 15, 2012
Got the fix! Credit goes to timeslip for this one.

Navigate to your install folder, then go into Data > Intro and move the .avi files elsewhere. The game should start up now.
Post edited May 15, 2012 by Skheart
Posted May 15, 2012
ok, for anyone with this particular problem, there's 4 avi files in the data\intro folder. If you move them out of the way, the game should be able to start up. There's a codec in the k-lite codec pack that causes that crash, but silver should be blocked from loading it, so maybe it's coming from somewhere else... What codec packs do people have installed?

You might be able to view the movies in windows media player or something (They aren't used in game, just on startup and at the game end, so watching the first two before playing and them leaving them out of the the folder wont effect gameplay.) or configure the problem codec pack to ignore silver, so you can safely put the avi files back.

Thanks to Skheart for testing that for me. :)
Post edited May 15, 2012 by timeslip
Posted May 15, 2012
Always happy to be a guinnea pig, especially when it works out =D

I'm using CCCP, full install, on my system. Videos play fine in WMP. I only get AC3Configurator popping up in the system tray though, as opposed to the usual suspects (FFDShow/Matroska, etc).
Posted May 15, 2012
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timeslip: ok, for anyone with this particular problem, there's 4 avi files in the data\intro folder. If you move them out of the way, the game should be able to start up. There's a codec in the k-lite codec pack that causes that crash, but silver should be blocked from loading it, so maybe it's coming from somewhere else... What codec packs do people have installed?

You might be able to view the movies in windows media player or something (They aren't used in game, just on startup and at the game end, so watching the first two before playing and them leaving them out of the the folder wont effect gameplay.) or configure the problem codec pack to ignore silver, so you can safely put the avi files back.

Thanks to Skheart for testing that for me. :)
I've tried moving the .avi to a new folder with still no luck when I goto start the actual game, it just black screens, I press ESC and the error appears and goes away quickly, strange really :/ Any ideas?
Posted May 15, 2012
I've got the same crash with the K-Lite codec pack installed. As expected, Silver is in the exception lists (for video and audio) but it still crashes. Moving the videos elsewhere works though, thanks!
Posted May 16, 2012
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Skheart: Got the fix! Credit goes to timeslip for this one.

Navigate to your install folder, then go into Data > Intro and move the .avi files elsewhere. The game should start up now.
I'm getting this error whenever I try to open a chest fairly early in the game, is there another possible way to fix this?
Posted May 16, 2012
Any time silver crashes, it'll display that exception message whatever the cause of the crash was. Moving the movies out of the way only helps with one specific crash (The one that happens on startup) and not with the others. I'll have to take a look at what's going on with the others.
Posted May 16, 2012
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Darucas: I've got the same crash with the K-Lite codec pack installed. As expected, Silver is in the exception lists (for video and audio) but it still crashes. Moving the videos elsewhere works though, thanks!
This is a codec issue. I had the same problem and fixed it by reinstalling K-Lite Codec Pack, selecting ffdshow where possible.

IIRC "Other video formats" was critical. "prefer LAV over ffdshow" crashed the game, while "prefer ffdshow over LAV" was OK.
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