AI Issue?

[Dukera]

I have reinstalled today after an aborted move to W10. I am back on Win 7 64 bit.
Had my old install still on drive after re-install of system so have saved off the critical files for games, bdg etc.
Booted up good - single bomber intercept to landing ran good.
Tried "End of the Defiant" as Hurri pilot - Germans intercept and shoot down some Defiants and then commence to land on the water - I can see them floating on the top of the water......

I did base install.
2.12 patch
2.11 multiskin
restored old files for config, cockpits and saved games.

Did I miss an AI patch along the way?

Thanks in advance,
Dukera

[Dukera]

Crashlog - now getting English Text errors
Have reset display and uncheck use windows DPI.

Thanks


------------ Begin of section written with bob.exe, Build/Rebuild all date: May 9 2007 13:35:37 ---------------------------
BoB.exe caused a EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module ntdll.dll at 001B:7C90F224, RtlMultiByteToUnicodeN()+89 byte(s)
Exception handler called in int CMIGApp::Run().
Read from location 00000098 caused an access violation.
Code: 0f b6 32 66 8b 34 71 66 89 30 3b df 0f 83 2d 43
Stack dump:
Stack: 001B:7C90F224 (0x00197DE0 0x00000002 0x0012F474 0x00000098) ntdll.dll, RtlMultiByteToUnicodeN()+89 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E41AE26 (0x000004E4 0x00000098 0x00000002 0x0012F490) USER32.dll, MBToWCSEx()+121 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E43C736 (0xC7010AC8 0x00000098 0x00000001 0x00000004) USER32.dll, DrawTextExA()+53 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E43C6F8 (0xC7010AC8 0x00000098 0x00000001 0x00000004) USER32.dll, DrawTextA()+46 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:0041772C (0x00000098 0x00000001 0x00000004 0x0012F778) BoB.exe, CDC::DrawTextA()+25 byte(s), c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\atlmfc\include\afxwin1.inl, line 628+25 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:106052F1 (0x0077862C 0x00000001 0x00000012 0x0000BAFF) RListBox.ocx, DllUnregisterServer()+6225 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:10606C04 (0x0012F9A0 0x0012F990 0x0012F980 0x046F9AB0) RListBox.ocx, DllUnregisterServer()+12644 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:73DFEE16 (0x00000000 0x0000000F 0x046F9AB0 0x00000000) MFC42.DLL, Ordinal4868()+236 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:73DD1FD3 (0x0000000F 0x00000000 0x73E83620 0x0012FA9C) MFC42.DLL, Ordinal5163()+1041 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:73DD1B9B (0x0000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x046F9AB0) MFC42.DLL, Ordinal6374()+36 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:73DFF60D (0x0000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0012FBDC) MFC42.DLL, Ordinal6370()+286 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:73DD1B05 (0x046F9AB0 0x00000000 0x0000000F 0x00000000) MFC42.DLL, Ordinal1109()+145 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:73DD1A58 (0x00050526 0x0000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000) MFC42.DLL, Ordinal1578()+54 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:1061164E (0x00050526 0x0000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000) RListBox.ocx, DllUnregisterServer()+56238 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E418734 (0x10611620 0x00050526 0x0000000F 0x00000000) USER32.dll, GetDC()+109 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E418816 (0x0017DAF0 0x10611620 0x00050526 0x0000000F) USER32.dll, GetDC()+335 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E41C63F (0x10611620 0x00050526 0x0000000F 0x00000000) USER32.dll, IsWindowUnicode()+161 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E41F65D (0x10611620 0x00050526 0x0000000F 0x00000000) USER32.dll, CallWindowProcA()+27 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:0041EBD6 (0x0000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x05F9BC95) BoB.exe, CWnd::DefWindowProcA()+66 byte(s), f:\sp\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\wincore.cpp, line 1035+19 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:0041ED29 (0x0000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x14D62607) BoB.exe, CWnd::WindowProc()+57 byte(s), f:\sp\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\wincore.cpp, line 1742+19 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:004219D3 (0x00000000 0x00050526 0x0000000F 0x00000000) BoB.exe, AfxCallWndProc()+154 byte(s), f:\sp\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\wincore.cpp, line 243
Stack: 001B:00421A60 (0x00050526 0x0000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000) BoB.exe, AfxWndProc()+52 byte(s), f:\sp\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\wincore.cpp, line 388+16 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E418734 (0x00421A2C 0x00050526 0x0000000F 0x00000000) USER32.dll, GetDC()+109 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E418816 (0x0017DAF0 0x00421A2C 0x00050526 0x0000000F) USER32.dll, GetDC()+335 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E41B4C0 (0x0442A208 0x0000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000) USER32.dll, DefWindowProcW()+388 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E41B50C (0x0012FE3C 0x00000018 0x0442A208 0x0000000F) USER32.dll, DefWindowProcW()+464 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7C90EAE3 (0x00178DA8 0x00000001 0x0012FF18 0x0042C23B) ntdll.dll, KiUserCallbackDispatcher()+19 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7E4196C7 (0x00178DA8 0x00778C00 0x7E419689 0x0040EB83) USER32.dll, DispatchMessageA()+15 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:0042C23B (0x14D625E3 0x007786E0 0x007786E0 0xFFFFFFFF) BoB.exe, AfxInternalPumpMessage()+62 byte(s), f:\sp\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\thrdcore.cpp, line 183
Stack: 001B:0040EB83 (0x00000A28 0x00000002 0x00000001 0x0047A4A5) BoB.exe, CMIGApp::Run()+437 byte(s), c:\bob\src\mfc\mig.cpp, line 1978+8 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:00667E86 (0x00400000 0x00000000 0x0015233F 0x00000001) BoB.exe, AfxWinMain()+104 byte(s), f:\sp\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\winmain.cpp, line 47+7 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:0047A4A5 (0x00300030 0x00330031 0x7FFD7000 0x8054AB38) BoB.exe, __tmainCRTStartup()+375 byte(s), f:\sp\vctools\crt_bld\self_x86\crt\src\crt0.c, line 324+28 byte(s)
Stack: 001B:7C816FD7 (0x0047A50E 0x00000000 0x78746341 0x00000020) kernel32.dll, RegisterWaitForInputIdle()+73 byte(s)

Stack dump (old format):
0012fff8: 0047a50e 00000000

EAX=00197DE0 EBX=00000001 ECX=7FFB001C EDX=00000098 ESI=00000001
EDI=00000020 EBP=00000000 ESP=0012FFF8 EIP=00000000 FLG=00010297
CS=001B DS=0023 SS=0023 ES=0023 FS=003B GS=0000
Error occurred at 5/16/2007 12:53:10.
C:\Matrix Games\Battle of Britain II\BoB.exe, run by Gregory Wilcox.
1 processor(s), type 586.
1536 MBytes physical memory.
OS: 5.1 build 2600 platform 2 Service Pack 2

Module list: names, addresses, sizes, time stamps and file times:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Normaliz.dll, loaded at 0x00330000 - 23552 bytes - 44a3ec46 - file date is 6/29/2006 09:05:44
C:\Matrix Games\Battle of Britain II\BoB.exe, loaded at 0x00400000 - 4304896 bytes - 4642147c - file date is 5/9/2007 13:35:46
C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3dx9_31.dll, loaded at 0x03fa0000 - 2414360 bytes - 451c48f1 - file date is 9/28/2006 16:05:20
C:\Matrix Games\Battle of Britain II\English\text\boblang.dll, loaded at 0x06270000 - 679936 bytes - 437b62b2 - file date is 11/16/2005 13:16:54
C:\Matrix Games\Battle of Britain II\muParser.dll, loaded at 0x10000000 - 225280 bytes - 428e0f2d - file date is 5/20/2005 18:24:14
C:\MATRIX~1\BAAA8A~1\Release\vc6\Rbutton.ocx, loaded at 0x10100000 - 61440 bytes - 3b5572f3 - file date is 7/18/2001 13:28:50
C:\MATRIX~1\BAAA8A~1\Release\vc6\RListBox.ocx, loaded at 0x10600000 - 118784 bytes - 3b55734a - file date is 7/18/2001 13:30:18
C:\MATRIX~1\BAAA8A~1\Release\vc6\Rscrlbar.ocx, loaded at 0x10700000 - 40960 bytes - 3b55730c - file date is 7/18/2001 13:29:18
C:\WINDOWS\system32\iertutil.dll, loaded at 0x42990000 - 266752 bytes - 45eefa30 - file date is 3/7/2007 13:45:16
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WININET.dll, loaded at 0x42c10000 - 822784 bytes - 45eefa2e - file date is 3/7/2007 13:45:18
C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d9.dll, loaded at 0x4fdd0000 - 1689088 bytes - 41109693 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dbghelp.dll, loaded at 0x59a60000 - 640000 bytes - 4110969a - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll, loaded at 0x5ad70000 - 218624 bytes - 411096bb - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:46
C:\WINDOWS\system32\COMCTL32.dll, loaded at 0x5d090000 - 617472 bytes - 44ef1b36 - file date is 8/25/2006 11:45:58
C:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEPRO32.DLL, loaded at 0x5edd0000 - 83456 bytes - 411096f7 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:44
C:\WINDOWS\system32\mslbui.dll, loaded at 0x605d0000 - 25088 bytes - 4110972f - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:44
C:\WINDOWS\system32\LPK.DLL, loaded at 0x629c0000 - 22016 bytes - 411096aa - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\HID.DLL, loaded at 0x688f0000 - 20992 bytes - 4110969c - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\DINPUT8.dll, loaded at 0x6ce10000 - 181760 bytes - 411096b0 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8thk.dll, loaded at 0x6d990000 - 8192 bytes - 41109692 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\SAMLIB.dll, loaded at 0x71bf0000 - 64000 bytes - 411096ad - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:44
C:\WINDOWS\system32\msacm32.drv, loaded at 0x72d10000 - 20480 bytes - 3b7dfe2a - file date is 8/23/2001 08:00:00
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdmaud.drv, loaded at 0x72d20000 - 23552 bytes - 411096c6 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:58
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINSPOOL.DRV, loaded at 0x73000000 - 146432 bytes - 411096b6 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:58
C:\WINDOWS\system32\MFC42.DLL, loaded at 0x73dd0000 - 1028096 bytes - 411096a5 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\KsUser.dll, loaded at 0x73ee0000 - 4096 bytes - 411096ad - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\DSOUND.dll, loaded at 0x73f10000 - 367616 bytes - 411096d4 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll, loaded at 0x74720000 - 294400 bytes - 411096ea - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\USP10.dll, loaded at 0x74d90000 - 406528 bytes - 411096ba - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:46
C:\WINDOWS\system32\msctfime.ime, loaded at 0x755c0000 - 177152 bytes - 411096eb - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:14
C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.DLL, loaded at 0x76390000 - 110080 bytes - 411096ae - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.dll, loaded at 0x763b0000 - 276992 bytes - 411096b0 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll, loaded at 0x76b40000 - 176128 bytes - 411096d6 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:46
C:\WINDOWS\system32\PSAPI.DLL, loaded at 0x76bf0000 - 23040 bytes - 411096ca - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:44
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll, loaded at 0x76c30000 - 176640 bytes - 411096b9 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:46
C:\WINDOWS\system32\imagehlp.dll, loaded at 0x76c90000 - 144384 bytes - 411096a9 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll, loaded at 0x76f60000 - 172032 bytes - 411096bb - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:46
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CLBCATQ.DLL, loaded at 0x76fd0000 - 498688 bytes - 42e5be90 - file date is 7/26/2005 00:39:44
C:\WINDOWS\system32\COMRes.dll, loaded at 0x77050000 - 792064 bytes - 411096b4 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEAUT32.dll, loaded at 0x77120000 - 553472 bytes - 411096f3 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:44
C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2982_x-ww_ac3f9c03\comctl32.dll, loaded at 0x773d0000 - 1054208 bytes - 44ef1b33 - file date is 8/25/2006 11:45:56
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll, loaded at 0x774e0000 - 1285120 bytes - 42e5be93 - file date is 7/26/2005 00:39:48
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NTMARTA.DLL, loaded at 0x77690000 - 118784 bytes - 411096ce - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:44
C:\WINDOWS\system32\SETUPAPI.DLL, loaded at 0x77920000 - 983552 bytes - 411096b0 - file date is 8/4/2004 01:56:46
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll, loaded at 0x77a80000 - 597504 bytes - 41109691 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll, loaded at 0x77b20000 - 57344 bytes - 411096e3 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\midimap.dll, loaded at 0x77bd0000 - 18944 bytes - 411096a9 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSACM32.dll, loaded at 0x77be0000 - 71680 bytes - 411096cf - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll, loaded at 0x77c00000 - 18944 bytes - 411096b7 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:46
C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll, loaded at 0x77c10000 - 343040 bytes - 41109752 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:44
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll, loaded at 0x77dd0000 - 616960 bytes - 411096a7 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:42
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll, loaded at 0x77e70000 - 581120 bytes - 411096ae - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:44
C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll, loaded at 0x77f10000 - 281600 bytes - 45f02d7c - file date is 3/8/2007 11:36:28
C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll, loaded at 0x77f60000 - 474112 bytes - 453ce0fd - file date is 10/23/2006 11:34:22
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll, loaded at 0x77fe0000 - 55808 bytes - 411096c1 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:44
C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll, loaded at 0x7c800000 - 984064 bytes - 44ab9a84 - file date is 7/5/2006 06:55:02
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll, loaded at 0x7c900000 - 708096 bytes - 411096b4 - file date is 8/4/2004 03:56:36
C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll, loaded at 0x7c9c0000 - 8453632 bytes - 45885f0b - file date is 12/19/2006 17:52:18
C:\WINDOWS\system32\oledlg.dll, loaded at 0x7df70000 - 122880 bytes - 4533b004 - file date is 10/16/2006 12:15:00
C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll, loaded at 0x7e410000 - 577536 bytes - 45f02d7c - file date is 3/8/2007 11:36:28

[Dukera]

PC Configuration


Intel I7 3930K 3.2 GHz (Six Core)
ASUS Sabertooth X79
16GB DDR3 2133 MHz RAM
1000W Corsair Power
120 GB SSD Windows 7 64 bit
1 TB Western Digital Caviar 7200 RPM
1 ASUS Blu Ray/DVD
NVIDIA GForce GTX 680 2 MB
Creative Recon 3D PCI Express

[PV]

Hi: The crash is in ntdll.dll, which is part of windows, so
it means windows is unhappy with some sort of configuration
between itself and the sim. We don't have any information
about the content of ntdll.dll, so it's hard to know what
bothers it (it is a frequent source of trouble), but in this
case, the module name is "multibyte to unicode" which
suggests it is complaining about something to do with
how your character text is being handled - it sounds like
it is having trouble with changing multibyte text, such as
chinese characters, to unicode text. (This should not be
an issue while running BoB2, but there it is...).

This is not terribly illuminating, but anything which generates
an ntdll.dll crash is being caused outside the BoB2 code,
so the things to look at are background processes which
might interfere, or system configurations which have changed
in your machine setup (nice machine, by the way). You can
review the recommendations in the v2.12 release notes for
running under W7, the "disable desktop composition" stuff,
and don't have any compatibility mode set. Also ensure your
system text is set at the standard 96dpi. I don't know if
you had to reload your Win7 from scratch again, but of
course you'd need the current version of DirectX 9.0c, which
I think is dated 2011 - you can check you're good there by
confirming the existence of the file d3dx9_43.dll in your
windows\system32\ folder.

Also check your BoB2 options settings to ensure you've got
particle density at medium or lower, though that's not likely
the issue here.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Edit: I have looked back through the forum history, and that
ntdll module is implicated when the .ocx files aren't properly
registered - this is a function executed by the patch installer -
you can't have a patch run properly over an original install by
simply copying the file content from a save folder. Sometime
around v2.07 or 8, a set of .ocx files was added by the installer
to a separate folder in \Program Files(x86)\Common Files\merlin\ ,
and the installer runs a script which registers them in the windows
registry associating them with the program. Subsequent patches
all rely on being told by the registry where these files are. The ocx
files are involved in the generation of the menu windows and
dialog boxes, thus the link to text handling.

[Dukera]

Thanks for the reply.

I did "apply" the 2.12 patch and then the 2.11 skin patch and did not copy them into the install.

I turned particle to medium and may go to small.

Trying to fly the front bomber intercept - ok in formation but when the formation begins to split to dive to intercept and the graphics tend to get full aka flak and bogies, the sim studders, freezes and the English text pops up.

I'll re-read Buddye's notes for 2.12.

Dukera

[Dukera]

It appears I fixed it. I read another thread with the same issue and noticed when he indicated he's fixed it he had unchecked the "run as compatible with..." option. Mine was checked.
Flew two historic missions to completion without issue.

Thanks for the help.
Dukera

[PV]

I did mention "don't have any compatibility mode set" ...

Well, just happy you've got it working.