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woke up today and the launcher gives me some weird error, i can login just fine but when it checks for a patch it gives me following error

Assertion failed

Program: H:\Cryptic Studios\CrypticError.exe
SVN Revision: 87348
Time: Tue Sep 27 09:09:22 PM
Process ID: 4668
File: c:\src\libs\utilitieslib\utils\error.c
Line: 740
Expression: 0

Error Message: Premature Errorf: Someone (c:\src\libs\utilitieslib\utils\cmdparse.c: 2076) tried to generate Errorf "Unrecognized command: SetSharedMachineIndex 0
Unknown command "SetSharedMachineIndex"." before the file system is ready, mostly like in an AUTO_RUN
Unique Error ID: 12950997
http://errortracker/detail?id=12950997

0 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x004A6F8D (0,18cdac,0,2800)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
1 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x0051B1E4 (0,5b19e0,0,18f620)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
2 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x0051A731 (0,5b19e0,0,5cd418)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
3 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x0047B239 (0,7835ec,0,18fd94)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
4 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x0047BA85 (0,800,0,5cbde0)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
5 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x0047BB01 (0,5cc300,0,5cbde0)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
6 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x0047BA18 (0,0,0,5cbde0)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
7 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x004780ED (0,9,0,b8cf40)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
8 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x0053BCA7 (0,400000,0,0)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
9 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x0055B500 (0,18ff94,0,770a3677)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
10 SYSTEM_ERROR 487 at 0x0055B24D (0,7efde000,0,18ffd4)
Line: --- (0)
Module: CrypticError.exe
11 BaseThreadInitThunk (7efde000,0,76421311,0)
Line: --- (0)
Module: kernel32.dll
12 RtlInitializeExceptionChain (55b240,0,7efde000,0)
Line: --- (0)
Module: ntdll.dll
13 RtlInitializeExceptionChain (55b240,0,7efde000,0)
Line: --- (0)
Module: ntdll.dll

Heap is NOT corrupted
No windows SYSTEM error code found.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited September 2011
    I am getting the same error screen, it asks me to contact a programmer to debug?!?!

    Any ideas guys?

    Cheers,

    Rick
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited September 2011
    worked fine yesterday, bypassing the launcher and using the game exe doesnt seem to work either it just returns a timeout
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited September 2011
    the game is currently installed on an external hardrive so i tried to run it on another computer and it worked just fine

    i went through and deleted everything i could find related to STO from my firewall, registry, and certificates and still no luck i get the exact same error

    any ideas?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited September 2011
    I'm not a Cryptic developer, but your error is on SetSharedMachineIndex that isn't a windows standard function. In cmdparse.c there will be a wrong argument passed (SetSharedMachineIndex) but maybe it's the order or some other parameter missing to call.

    IMHO errors like this are near to be a mistery for Cryptic developer too, I think this is due for some incoherent/inconsistent state of your pc due to ... a wong windows update? Or a shi**ty program like CCcleaner that remove some registry entry? Or ... a Criptyc update that gone wrong. I mean that the error can be caused by Criptyc software but also other "software library", for example like "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008" that loose some data due to some bad sector of your HD.
    Sometimes this error are hidden, then verify all of your software, maybe others, like Office or windows media player can be affected by the same error.
    Other times error will be introduced by new software, then try to remove ALL SW you installe after this error happens, and remember tha your antivirus and many SW will update by self, try to deactivate for some minutes.

    Also let me say that a software is not just a couple of files copied to Hard drive, but is composed by many things, then is not a good idea to install on external HD and run from diferent PC, the software must be specifically "portable", and projected to be portabe (portable ... those made after often run bad). Microsoft DOT NET technology can create something like portable programs, but using old style of coding is better for backward compatibility but bad for portability.
    You don't know how STO is made ... and, if the errors will cumulate at criptyc database server and a bad day you'll get your ship erased? Not good, isn't it?

    My 2... or 4 cents ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited September 2011
    havent installed anything new for about 2 weeks and everything is my system is set to manual update so pretty sure thats not it

    as for the external hardrive i really have no choice, my internet is limited to 10GB per month so i have to be able to upgrades things using others connections when needed

    but still doesnt change the fact this error only happens on the 1 computer, everything works fine on my other
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited September 2011
    ok so i found some more registry files from STO and that seemed to have fixed the issue

    assuming something just got corrupted or something
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