rundll.exe application errors

[t377y]

I am getting "Rundll32.exe Application error" whenever I try to run a game
which i have run before many times without any problems (even with the new
installation of XP). The Game is "Rise of Nations Thrones and Patriots"
which causes the rundll32.exe Application Error:
The instruction at “0x7c9100e8†reference memory from “0x020f0010â€. The
memory could not be “readâ€.
Click on OK to terminate the program

The same error occurs if I try to run the previous version of Rise of
Nations which I had updated to Thrones and Patriots.

I have just (10 days ago) rebuilt Win Xp Pro from scratch because I was
getting trojans more frequently than ever before in spite of Virus program
F-Secure being used. All Win Xp updates have been downloaded and installed.
I have only loaded programs and files that I use and virus scan every file
before I copy. This game has been running Ok until today.

I ran a full scan and found 1 spy a tracker which was cleaned.

rundll32.exe file size is 36,864 dated 4th August 2004 Modified 14th April
2008 and is in the CWindows\system32 dir

Any advice would be appreciated
Terry (t377y)
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If it aint broke don't fix it

 

[db]

you might try checking
the games home site.

perhaps, there are updates
or fixes or patches addressing
the error you have.

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"t377y" <t377y@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F47CF0E8-CA78-4656-B5C5-458531B89916@microsoft.com...
> I am getting "Rundll32.exe Application error" whenever I try to run a game
> which i have run before many times without any problems (even with the new
> installation of XP). The Game is "Rise of Nations Thrones and Patriots"
> which causes the rundll32.exe Application Error:
> The instruction at “0x7c9100e8†reference memory from “0x020f0010â€. The
> memory could not be “readâ€.
> Click on OK to terminate the program
>
> The same error occurs if I try to run the previous version of Rise of
> Nations which I had updated to Thrones and Patriots.
>
> I have just (10 days ago) rebuilt Win Xp Pro from scratch because I was
> getting trojans more frequently than ever before in spite of Virus program
> F-Secure being used. All Win Xp updates have been downloaded and installed.
> I have only loaded programs and files that I use and virus scan every file
> before I copy. This game has been running Ok until today.
>
> I ran a full scan and found 1 spy a tracker which was cleaned.
>
> rundll32.exe file size is 36,864 dated 4th August 2004 Modified 14th April
> 2008 and is in the CWindows\system32 dir
>
> Any advice would be appreciated
> Terry (t377y)
> --
> If it aint broke don't fix it

 

[VanguardLH]

t377y wrote:

> I am getting "Rundll32.exe Application error" whenever I try to run a game
> which i have run before many times without any problems (even with the new
> installation of XP). The Game is "Rise of Nations Thrones and Patriots"
> which causes the rundll32.exe Application Error:
> The instruction at ´0x7c9100e8¡ reference memory from ´0x020f0010¡. The
> memory could not be ´read¡.
> Click on OK to terminate the program
>
> The same error occurs if I try to run the previous version of Rise of
> Nations which I had updated to Thrones and Patriots.
>
> I have just (10 days ago) rebuilt Win Xp Pro from scratch because I was
> getting trojans more frequently than ever before in spite of Virus program
> F-Secure being used. All Win Xp updates have been downloaded and installed.
> I have only loaded programs and files that I use and virus scan every file
> before I copy. This game has been running Ok until today.
>
> I ran a full scan and found 1 spy a tracker which was cleaned.
>
> rundll32.exe file size is 36,864 dated 4th August 2004 Modified 14th April
> 2008 and is in the CWindows\system32 dir
>
> Any advice would be appreciated
> Terry (t377y)

Games are notoriously the worst written code on the planet. To ensure
speed, they don't bother with boundary checks or any graceful recovery code.
They also incorporate libraries over which they have no control so defects
in them will show up as defects in the game. As yet, it's been probably two
decades since I've seen non-game programs that were so poorly written with
regard to stability and compatibility.

Have you tried uninstalling, doing file and registry remnant cleanup, and
then reinstalling the game? Sometimes they corrupt their own files,
especially due to the crappy copy protection schemes that they employ.

Did you update the video driver? Do you have Windows Update configured to
install updates automatically (a very bad idea)? Also, never install
hardware updates from Windows Update. Use that as a prompt to go to the
hardware manufacturer's web site to get the newer version - but then the
newer version had better give you something real that you really need on
your system and not just because it is newer.

The problem isn't with rundll32.exe. It is with the method (function) that
is called from the .dll file that is to get executed. You have to find out
from the game why it would bother using rundll32.exe instead of having its
own program call the methods from the .dll files. If there is a forum that
discusses this game, those folks might have the technical expertise to know
why this game needs to use rundll32.exe.