Crash on Start-up

[Ankit]

The game crashes on me as soon as I double-click the icon or "run as administrator". I am running Vista Home Premium 32-bit. The crashes are due to DEP and though the executable that crashes is OOTP9.exe, the module is elicen40.dll. Have done the following: installed, crashed on start-up, restarted, crashed on start-up, uninstalled, restarted, downloaded from a different location, reinstalled, crashed on start-up, restarted, crashed on start-up.

Here's the problem's signature from the "OOTP Baseball 9 has stopped working dialog:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: ootp9.exe
Application Version: 2.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 48590645
Fault Module Name: elicen40.dll
Fault Module Version: 4.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 3d86b216
Exception Offset: 00025001
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: e51a
Additional Information 2: 4c0d4d78887f76d971d5d00f1f20a433
Additional Information 3: e51a
Additional Information 4: 4c0d4d78887f76d971d5d00f1f20a433

After I click on "Close program", I get a another dialog box stating:

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ootp9.exe - Application Error
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The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click OK to terminate the application.
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OK
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[rasnell]

Hey, Ankit, I remember all of your databases from the old days and used them many, many times.

I'm not sure I know how to help in this area, but is it possible that you're having one of the reported problems with elicensing? Are you using AVG Anti-Virus and is it somehow blocking the e-license file?

[Ankit]

The crash is being caused by Windows DEP. When I turn it off for OOTP9.exe, the program doesn't even launch. Not a single process starts when I double-click the program. Also, my anti-virus is Avast and I have an exception in Windows Firewall for OOTP9.exe.

[Ankit]

Originally Posted by rasnell

Hey, Ankit, I remember all of your databases from the old days and used them many, many times.

I'm not sure I know how to help in this area, but is it possible that you're having one of the reported problems with elicensing? Are you using AVG Anti-Virus and is it somehow blocking the e-license file?

I am almost certain that elicense is the culprit with bad code.

[battists]

Ankit,

Do the steps in this FAQ from last year help your issue?

[Ankit]

battists,

Turning off DEP for all but essential services worked and I was able to launch the game. However, that is not a good solution as it makes the computer's security weaker. Have you discussed or looked into ways to program the offending code better so that it does not trigger DEP? Since I can replicate this issue endlessly, if you can develop a patch, I am willing to test it and provide crash reports if it doesn't fix it. Regardless, turning off DEP is not a good solution.

[Tony M]

As there has been no further posts in this thread for 4 days, I'll move it to closed. If anyone has problems with DEP and launching OOTP then we can reopen it.