Please help!!! Ghost Recon!!!!

[Rigid Ice]

For Christmas I got Ghost Recon and Desert Siege, but Ghost Recon doesn't work!   Everyone it starts to load and displays the Tom Clancy's GR screen, the CD starts to slow down, then says "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down". Why??? I've tried unistalling it, then reinstalling it, but it doesn't work. I also have all the system requirements- please help, anybody!

[dave-s]

Have you ever got it to work and did you install any mods?
I had similar problems with a mod installed.
Other things could be anti-virus progs, I turn mne off.
If you go into your Redstorm entertainment folder, then Ghost recon on your HDD,
Look for a file called 'IkeCrash' this will tel you what the problem is although its a bit hard to understand (this is how I knew the mod was causing the fault).
Hope this helps

[Rigid Ice]

I have not installed a mod, nor have I ever even gotten the game to work. Here's that file, and what it says:

GHOSTRECON caused an Access Violation in module DDRAW.DLL at 0177:baabf646.
Exception handler called in Main Thread.
Error occurred at 12/25/2002 13:10:46.
C:\PROGRAM FILES\RED STORM ENTERTAINMENT\GHOST RECON\GHOSTRECON.EXE, run by Unknown.
1 processor(s), type 586.
256 MBytes physical memory.
Read from location ffffffff caused an access violation.

Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0177 EIP=baabf646 EFLGS=00010282
EBX=00000000 SS=017f ESP=00c6f2b4 EBP=00c6f2f4
ECX=d64858d0 DS=017f ESI=00c6f384 FS=3ebf
EDX=81e00001 ES=017f EDI=00c6f394 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 40 04 8b 88 ac 03 00 00 89 0e 8b 88 b0 03 00

Stack trace:
BAABF646: DDRAW.DLL! DdEntry16, <no file>, <no line>

   Module list: names, addresses, sizes, time stamps and file times:
C:\PROGRAM FILES\RED STORM ENTERTAINMENT\GHOST RECON\GHOSTRECON.EXE, loaded at 0x00400000 - 5788257 bytes - 3c7ac4b4 - file date is 2/25/2002 18:12:22
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\D3D8.DLL, loaded at 0x00910000 - 1209344 bytes - 3bdf5e34 - file date is 10/30/2001 08:10:00
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\~EF3BE4\~DF394B.TMP, loaded at 0x10000000 - 515624 bytes - 3c050d54 - file date is 12/25/2002 13:10:26
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DINPUT8.DLL, loaded at 0x70000000 - 192512 bytes - 3bd5d93c - file date is 10/30/2001 08:10:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CRYPT32.DLL, loaded at 0x713c0000 - 371472 bytes - 3b5cd62b - file date is 7/23/2001 00:00:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WINTRUST.DLL, loaded at 0x71560000 - 47376 bytes - 3b5cd62c - file date is 7/23/2001 00:00:00
C:\PROGRAM FILES\RED STORM ENTERTAINMENT\GHOST RECON\DBGHELP.DLL, loaded at 0x72a00000 - 163088 bytes - 3af32067 - file date is 8/10/2001 09:27:10
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL, loaded at 0x75fa0000 - 40960 bytes - 3720a232 - file date is 8/26/2002 11:35:18
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WS2HELP.DLL, loaded at 0x75fe0000 - 24576 bytes - 3720a231 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WS2_32.DLL, loaded at 0x76000000 - 73728 bytes - 3720a231 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WNASPI32.DLL, loaded at 0x760e0000 - 36864 bytes - 3720a231 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSVCRT.DLL, loaded at 0x78000000 - 295000 bytes - 37f2c227 - file date is 5/18/2000 16:36:02
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSWSOCK.DLL, loaded at 0x794d0000 - 86016 bytes - 3720a206 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSSIP32.DLL, loaded at 0x79a30000 - 40960 bytes - 3720a203 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSOSS.DLL, loaded at 0x79e00000 - 151552 bytes - 3720a200 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\RSABASE.DLL, loaded at 0x7ca00000 - 101648 bytes - 37b5dadc - file date is 7/23/2001 00:00:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IMAGEHLP.DLL, loaded at 0x7cc00000 - 114688 bytes - 3720a1e7 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\RPCRT4.DLL, loaded at 0x7fb90000 - 339968 bytes - 3720a1d0 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OLE32.DLL, loaded at 0x7ff20000 - 790528 bytes - 3720a1d0 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDRAW.DLL, loaded at 0xbaaa0000 - 369664 bytes - 39f15f6f - file date is 11/3/2000 14:35:22
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DSOUND.DLL, loaded at 0xbeaf0000 - 474112 bytes - 3a024e6b - file date is 11/3/2000 14:35:22
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\USER32.DLL, loaded at 0xbfc00000 - 55296 bytes - 390074be - file date is 4/21/2000 08:33:18
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WINMM.DLL, loaded at 0xbfdf0000 - 65536 bytes - 3720a1ce - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VERSION.DLL, loaded at 0xbfe70000 - 24576 bytes - 3720a1cd - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ADVAPI32.DLL, loaded at 0xbfe80000 - 65536 bytes - 3720a1cd - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\NTDLL.DLL, loaded at 0xbfee0000 - 20480 bytes - 3546ab93 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\GDI32.DLL, loaded at 0xbff20000 - 155648 bytes - 353ec272 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL, loaded at 0xbff70000 - 471040 bytes - 371fc2b3 - file date is 4/23/1999 22:22:00

[dave-s]

Looks like a Direct X problem? Direct Draw?
Are you running the most uptodate?
Have you tried running the direct X diagnostic?

Maybe someone else can confirm it?

[Rigid Ice]

Well, I asked Ubi Soft, and they told me my video card was the problem. Here was their actual response:

According to your DXDIAG, there appears to be a problem with your video card configuration. First download the latest drivers from http://www.matrox.com for the G400 in your system. You must have DirectX 9.0 or higher to use these drivers properly.  If you do not have DirectX 9.0 or do not know which version you have, download and install the latest version of DirectX from http://www.Microsoft.com/directx

If, after following the steps above, your problem still is not solved, click your ?Start? button, then ?Run?.
Type: DXDiag
Click "Ok", Click ?Display?.
Make sure both DirectDraw and Direct3D acceleration are enabled.  If they are not, click the ?Enable? button.  If they will not enable, you need to contact your PC manufacturer to get these enabled.



I have Direct X 8.0, which is what GR needs, but, I'll try what he says...

[Rigid Ice]

its a mircale! it works (i need direct X 9.0!)

[dave-s]

Ahhh, think we should get rid of our computers and all buy consoles
I had problems with R6 and vid cards, I upgraded to the detonator drivers fro my old Diamond Viper and any texture which had some sort of transparency or movement turned out like static on a TV, took me ages to work out what Id done. Fortunately Redstorm have thought about it and added that text files which tells you what the problem is.



Have fun

Dave