Ran into some technical issues with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat that I can't seem to resolve. I was playing just fine, I had just left Yanov Station before saving my game and quitting to do something else. When I wanted to resume the game it wouldn't start. It would try to initialize before telling me that X-Ray 1.6 engine has stopped working. Following the crash BugTrap boots up and provides me with the following information:
Exception reason:
xrEngine.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module "C:\Program Files (x86)\bitComposer Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat\bin\xrEngine.exe" at 0023:0040B284, CApplication::load_draw_internal()+1412 byte(s)
Registers:
EAX=FFDFFFFF EBX=75684977 ECX=00077F28 EDX=00A0FA10
ESI=00492E54 EDI=002459E0 FLG=00210246
EBP=00A0F9C8 ESP=00A0F9C4 EIP=0040B284
CS=0023 DS=002B SS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B
In addition to the information provided by BugTrap the .log file contained the following information:
* Detected CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 925 Processor [AuthenticAMD], F15/M4/S2, 2807.00 mhz, 67-clk 'rdtsc'
* CPU features: RDTSC, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, MONITOR/MWAIT
* CPU threads: 4
Initializing File System...
using fs-ltx fsgame.ltx
FS: 44161 files cached 29 archives, 9261Kb memory used.
Init FileSystem 2.673965 sec
'xrCore' build 3967, Dec 14 2009
EH: 3CAABCFCFF6F3A810019C6A72180F166
-----loading c:\program files (x86)\bitcomposer games\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\system.ltx
-----loading c:\program files (x86)\bitcomposer games\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\system.ltx
Initializing Engine...
Starting INPUT device...
Loading DLL: xrRender_R2.dll
Loading DLL: xrRender_R3.dll
refCount:m_pAdapter 1
Loading DLL: xrRender_R4.dll
* D3D11: device creation failed with hr=0x887a0004
command line
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
~ Invalid syntax in call to 'renderer'
~ Valid arguments: renderer_r1/renderer_r2a/renderer_r2
[c:\users\public\documents\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - call of pripyat\user.ltx] successfully loaded.
stack trace:
0023:0040B284 xrEngine.exe, CCC_LoadCFG_custom::operator=()
0023:0044DFEE xrEngine.exe, CCF_EventBox::CCF_EventBox()
Deleting user.ltx didn't do much in the way of solving the issue but created another one which I assume is part of the main issue causing it a. If I try to launch the game without user.ltx it tells me that it can't initialize the graphics hardware. The .log file reports the following:
* Detected CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 925 Processor [AuthenticAMD], F15/M4/S2, 2807.00 mhz, 67-clk 'rdtsc'
* CPU features: RDTSC, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, MONITOR/MWAIT
* CPU threads: 4
Initializing File System...
using fs-ltx fsgame.ltx
FS: 44162 files cached 29 archives, 9261Kb memory used.
Init FileSystem 2.837277 sec
'xrCore' build 3967, Dec 14 2009
EH: 3CAABCFCFF6F3A810019C6A72180F166
-----loading c:\program files (x86)\bitcomposer games\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\system.ltx
-----loading c:\program files (x86)\bitcomposer games\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\system.ltx
Initializing Engine...
Starting INPUT device...
Loading DLL: xrRender_R2.dll
Loading DLL: xrRender_R3.dll
refCount:m_pAdapter 1
Loading DLL: xrRender_R4.dll
* D3D11: device creation failed with hr=0x887a0004
command line
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
! Cannot open script file [user.ltx]
Loading DLL: xrRender_R1.dll
Loading DLL: xrGame.dll
! Player name in registry is empty! (InstallUserName)
* [win32]: free[3986784 K], reserved[104392 K], committed[103064 K]
* [ D3D ]: textures[0 K]
* [x-ray]: crt heap[15929 K], process heap[4582 K], game lua[0 K], render[0 K]
* [x-ray]: economy: strings[9317 K], smem[0 K]
SOUND: OpenAL: enumerate devices...
SOUND: OpenAL: EnumerationExtension Present
dir[0]=C:\Program Files (x86)\bitComposer Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat\bin\
dir[1]=C:\Program Files (x86)\bitComposer Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat\
dir[2]=C:\Program Files (x86)\bitComposer Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat\bin\
dir[3]=C:\Windows\system32\
CleanDeviceSpecifierList
CleanDeviceSpecifierList Generic Hardware
devices Generic Hardware
SOUND: OpenAL: system default SndDevice name is Headset (3- Sound Blaster Tacti
SOUND: OpenAL: All available devices:
1. Generic Software, Spec Version 1.1 eax[0] efx[no] xram[no]
2. Generic Software, Spec Version 1.1 eax[0] efx[no] xram[no]
3. Headset (3- Sound Blaster Tactic(3D) Alpha), Spec Version 1.1 eax[5] efx[no] xram[no]
Executing config-script "c:\program files (x86)\bitcomposer games\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\default_controls.ltx"...
[c:\program files (x86)\bitcomposer games\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\default_controls.ltx] successfully loaded.
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
! Cannot open script file [user.ltx]
SOUND: Selected device is Generic Software
* sound: EAX 2.0 extension: absent
* sound: EAX 2.0 deferred: absent
* sound : cache: 65537 kb, 4856 lines, 13820 bpl
Starting RENDER device...
* GPU [vendor:1002]-[device:68D8]: AMD Radeon HD 5670
* GPU driver: 0.0.0.0
Failed to initialize graphics hardware.
Please try to restart the game.
Can not find matching format for back buffer.
I tried googling the issue and found a whole lot of useless things. Most of the results were relevant but different in certain ways with solutions that didn't work for me. I had only installed 3 mods for COP which were Arsenal Overhaul 2.5, AtmosFear 3 and Absolute Nature 3. Hopefully someone here is more technical with COP as I've been unable to fix this issue. Even a clean install didn't seem solve the problem.
