Crashing on Win7 ESU FULLY UPDATED

[darkalexis1990]

crashes on latest build on Win7 ESU build 7601.27219 (server2008r2 latest updates throught bypassv12 tool)

[K4sum1]

What happens with latest VC++?

https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist

[darkalexis1990]

yes

[K4sum1]

I'm not sure what causes this issue or how I would debug it. I am unable to replicate any crash like this, even with RTM. Others have reported the same crash before, this is a duplicate of https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/issues/119

[K4sum1]

Since this is a VM, would you be willing to try VxKex?

[darkalexis1990]

it worked, but its not efficient. also the layout is from win10 which is awful

[darkalexis1990]

the developer must fix this. its a irony to crash on a full updated Win7 ESU machine.

[K4sum1]

Disable reporting as Windows 10 and you'll have the 7 UI

I was actually hoping VxKex wouldn't work so we could test nightly builds to see where it first began, but can't do that.

I actually don't know what causes this, and without knowing the cause, how can I fix it?

[darkalexis1990]

where is the report crash file in order to send it to you?

[K4sum1]

I would need to somehow replicate the issue myself.

[K4sum1]

Try these builds pls

https://litter.catbox.moe/8wr1wd.7z

[darkalexis1990]

@K4sum1 it seems to work.

[K4sum1]

Do both work?

[darkalexis1990]

@K4sum1 yes

[K4sum1]

The only thing that I think could cause the issue is that I've only seen reports like this from non-English localized versions of Windows. What language is your ISO and can you send it pls?

I guess I'll have to look into how Cairo does localization.

[darkalexis1990]

my ISO is en-US .its a Gen2 ISO release from 9/23

[K4sum1]

Well, you seem to have changed localization then. What are you using?

[darkalexis1990]

[K4sum1]

So I applied those settings and it works fine on my end. I guess I'll move onto the next idea which is maybe ESU is funny with this.

[K4sum1]

Is this a 0x80000003 in xul.dll by chance?

(Check Event Viewer)

[darkalexis1990]

how can i find this?

[K4sum1]

I forgot to send woops

Win key + R eventvwr Enter Windows Logs Application Look for Error Level and find ones for r3dfox.exe

[Komprogue]

Is this a 0x80000003 in xul.dll by chance?

(Check Event Viewer)

I've got an 0x80000003 error in v.127.0.2:

But in v.128.0.3 it's another one:

[K4sum1]

Ok, so my guess is Microsoft somehow fucked up DWrite.dll with ESU,

Download this, import the registry file, and move all the files to the r3dfox install directory. Then reboot and try opening r3dfox. DWrite.zip

[Komprogue]

Download this, import the registry file, and move all the files to the r3dfox install directory. Then reboot and try opening r3dfox. DWrite.zip

No, it didn't help, unfortunately,

[K4sum1]

Hmm, I'll need to get around to testing with ESU and seeing if I can fix without downgrading Cario.

[K4sum1]

@K4sum1 it seems to work.

@darkalexis1990 Do you still have those builds? I need them to give to other people to test (download expired)

[darkalexis1990]

what exactly you want me to send? :)

[K4sum1]

Try these builds pls

https://litter.catbox.moe/8wr1wd.7z

This

[darkalexis1990]

do i have remove the previous with revo unistaller?

[K4sum1]

I mean do you have the installers I gave you that were from that link? I deleted them, and the link expired.

[darkalexis1990]

sorry i dont have them :(

[K4sum1]

my ISO is en-US .its a Gen2 ISO release from 9/23

So I found this and tried it https://archive.org/details/win7_gen2 (It's the newest I could find)

And uh it works fine for me wtf

[jonm58]

What are your CPU and GPU?

[K4sum1]

I found a 9/23 Gen2 release and tried it. Still working on my end.

[K4sum1]

@jonm58 I don't think GPU matters here since it's virtualized. You can see their CPU in this pic.

@K4sum1 it seems to work.

For me, I have 5950X and 2080 Ti, host is MX Linux (I'm using Nouveau because I can btw)

[lvpha]

Hey @K4sum1 ,

Win 7 ESU (German, partly localized to US-EN) The crash happens when I first launch it. I close the error and launch it again. Then it works perfectly.

Ryzen 7 5700x/RTX3060.

Btw, I am NOT on a VM.

I'll create a backup, then proceed with troubleshooting.

[K4sum1]

By chance, can you check if 129.0.2 resolves the issue?

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases/tag/v129.0.2

[Komprogue]

By chance, can you check if 129.0.2 resolves the issue?

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases/tag/v129.0.2

Seems like finally that crash at launching is gone.

[K4sum1]

So it was not Cario, it was this code that only ran if you use the installer. https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/commit/52ca3f540c66371fb26fbcbafaf2aae3e941c042 I never caught it since I don't use the installer. The downgrade Cairo portable builds working made me think it was Cario and Microsoft broke DWrite or GDI somehow with ESU and since my 2020 update point worked I considered it low priority especially since Cairo is hell to work with. (I initially tried to keep it downgraded for 127)

[K4sum1]

Wait woops, lemme close https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/issues/119 instead