Fix for Access Violation on start (G-sync Monitors) Thread - Gothic 2 - Requiem mod for Gothic II - The Night of the Raven

If you get Access Violation when you start AST.exe you need to turn G-sync off in Nvidia Control panel...

where do I find this Nvidia control Panel ? I don't have Nvidia as a graphic card , I have radeon .... and there is no Radeon in control panel ... so , no ideea.

its only for Nvidia graphic cards (possible that your card doesnt even have a G-sync option)

also there should be a control panel for ATI cards also (perhaps you need to download a special program which acts as a settings menu for graphics options)

I open the Nvidia control panel but i can't find G-sync.

Where exactly is it?

That means that you don't have a G-sync monitor

Hi.
The game doesn't start for me.
I followed the instructions exactly as specified.
AST.exe doesn't work at all and when I use gothicstarter.exe and select "AST Start", I get the main menu then the game crashes when I click new adventure (after loading for a bit) I get access violation which says it's about "2.6f attempting to read from...".
Once I get the access violation my computer freezes up and I have to either sign out and re-login (to windows)or restart the PC.
I don't think I have g-sync as it doesn't show up in nvidia control panel.
Any solutions?

Also, I'm using the steam version and I just did a clean install (twice today).

Apparently the error message is "Gothic II - 2.6 (fix) has caused an access violation by attempting to read 000000h" and something (the 000000h gets mentioned again).

I have to mention this: I didn't install the microsoft directx thingy because I already have vesion 14.0.239 installed (whereas the download link in instructions.txt is 14.0.206).

So I did a new clean install and followed the instructions as specified.

This time, I also installed the vcredist from the link in instructions.txt. After getting the exact same error as above, I also replaced the directx in gothic2/data with the ones from the mod .zip.
The result is the same: AST.exe does not work at all and gothicstarter.exe AST Start gives me an access violation when I start a new adventure.

"Gothic II - 2.6 (fix) has caused an access violation error at address 000000h by attempting to "read" from address 000000h".

What I also did was install the vcredist from the .zip, I tried both the x64 and x86 parts and I get the exact same error.

Interestingly, 1. the game loads to about 70% (the red bar) then I get the crash, 2. when I click on AST Start it says , 3. when I use gothic2starter.exe and select "Gothic II NoTR" I get the same error (but also the same requiem main menu and icon and music).

Nevermind - the antivirus was blocking AST.exe (Norton) so I had to right click it, select properties then tick "unblock".

Edited by: stonius

I'm posting what I get on the clipboard when it crashes at the bottom of the post.

I have tried:

>>setting as administrator and Windows XP service pack 2 to the 3 launchers in my system folder

>>tried using both launchers (gothic2.exe and gothic starter.exe) [And when using the gothicstarter.exe I select Requiem as the option]

>>went to computer properties to change the 'data execution prevention' and added the 3 launchers in the list.

>>tried both steam and retail version of Gothic II - Night of the Raven (Gold edition). Clean installs were made on different HDDs

>>tried differnt resolutions and video settings

>>disabled intro videos

>>updated video drivers

I have been trying for what it seems like a while now and havent made it to Khorinis without crashing. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

======================================= UNHANDLED EXCEPTION OCCURED ======================================================
======================================= CRASH INFOS: =====================================================================
Gothic II - 2.6 (fix), Parser Version: 50
User: Sal, CPUType: 586, Mem: 1024 MB total, 1024 MB free
Camera: Pos(31106.7188/8915.79883/-14577.0693), At(0.42994684/-0.0665803254/0.90039593)
Startup Options:-game:requiemgame.ini
=============================================== CALLSTACK : ==============================================================
0023:771DC54F (0xE06D7363 0x00000001 0x00000003 0x0135F818) KERNELBASE.dll, RaiseException()+88 byte(s)
0023:007D44BF (0x0135F844 0x00889A88 0x00000000 0x7EA55328) Gothic2.exe, _CxxThrowException()+52 byte(s)0023:007D0AB4 (0x1DE23CAC 0x00000000 0x0088DFE0 0x008913B0) Gothic2.exe, __RTDynamicCast()+122 byte(s)
0023:007D0B51 (0x0135F834 0x0135F1EC 0x0135F900 0x007D3544) Gothic2.exe, bad_cast::bad_cast
0023:007D0AB4 (0x1DE23CAC 0x00000000 0x0088DFE0 0x008913B0) Gothic2.exe, __RTDynamicCast()+122 byte(s)
0023:006EEE65 (0x7EA55454 0x00AB4118 0x00AB40C0 0x0082E6F0) Gothic2.exe, oCMsgState::operator delete()+52661 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\Gothic\_ulf\oGameExternal.cpp, line 4749+25 byte(s)
0023:00792568 (0x006EEE10 0x0082E6F0 0x00AB40C0 0xFFFFFFFF) Gothic2.exe, zCParser::DoStack()+3080 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_ulf\zParser.cpp, line 1433
0023:00792CBF (0x00AB40C0 0x0000A18B 0x21DE3350 0x0043C804) Gothic2.exe, zCParser::CallFunc()+719 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_ulf\zParser.cpp, line 1551
0023:007929E7 (0x21DE3350 0x0758C280 0x21DE31E8 0x23848250) Gothic2.exe, zCParser::CallFunc()+23 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_ulf\zParser.cpp, line 1488+23 byte(s)

0023:0061077B (0x0758C034 0x00000000 0xC2711D5E 0xC2C87B58) Gothic2.exe, zCTrigger::OnTimer()+43 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_dieter\zVobMisc.cpp, line 473
0023:00602CD7 (0x00000001 0x152165D8 0x00000000 0x0135FCA8) Gothic2.exe, zCVob::DoFrameActivity()+119 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_dieter\zVob.cpp, line 2179
0023:006C87EB (0x00400000 0x002F3299 0x0135FECC 0x7EFDE000) Gothic2.exe, oCGame::Render()+331 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\Gothic\_ulf\oGame.cpp, line 2658
0023:00425E6E (0x0082F0EC 0x00000000 0x0004038A 0x152165D8) Gothic2.exe, CGameManager::Run()+1598 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\Gothic\_bert\oGameManager.cpp, line 767+47 byte(s)
0023:0078188B (0x0000002C 0x00016CE9 0x00000001 0x00000000) Gothic2.exe, MainProg()+75 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\Gothic\_ulf\Phoenix.cpp, line 111
0023:00503270 (0x00400000 0x00000000 0x002F3299 0x00000001) Gothic2.exe, HandledWinMain()+928 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_carsten\zWin32.cpp, line 1169
0023:00502DFD (0x0135FED0 0x00000000 0x002F3299 0x00000001) Gothic2.exe, WinMain()+141 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_carsten\zWin32.cpp, line 1054+17 byte(s)
0023:007D43F8 (0x00000004 0x0000FFFF 0x000000B8 0x00000000) Gothic2.exe, WinMainCRTStartup()+224 byte(s)