Hi folks!

I play WA for about 6 years now and im used to the patch and update routines.

What happened:
After having a WA-pause for about 2 month i tried to start the game and after a black-screen for about 5 secs it returned to windows and i got following error in the error.log file:
wa caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module MMSwitch.ax at 001b:1d1c4e86.
Exception handler called in ExceptionAttacher.cpp - AfxWinMain.
Error occurred at 9/25/2007 19:33:00.
D:\spiele\Worms Armageddon\wa.exe, run by HeinBloed.
Operating system: Windows XP (5.1.2600).
1 processor(s), type 586.
43% memory in use.
512 MBytes physical memory.
288 MBytes physical memory free.
1250 MBytes paging file.
924 MBytes paging file free.
2048 MBytes user address space.
1964 MBytes user address space free.
Read from location 00000000 caused an access violation.
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i uninstalled and reinstalled WA several times without any noticable changes :p
^^old programmer-trick (if your car doesnt start, just get out of it and in again and try to start it again ;)

Then i spend little time on the forum and did read the hint about the "/nointro"-part, which i tested and "voila" WA started and crashed on starting a mission (more polite to test there than with an online-game).
the strange part is, that it crashed on that spot only once! A re-try solved all the problems?!

what i've done befor running WA:
- installed "Neverwinter Nights 2"
^^including DirectX 9c and .NET Frameworks 2.0

I think my problem is solved by the "i-dont-know-why-but-now-it-works"-engineering-trick, but perhaps someone else has the same probs and team17 might know the backrounds of that problem

greetings,
Renadda (actual WA-nicks: Tillule/JohnSinclair)

have you tried reinstalling DirectX? It's highly unlikely that the mere presence of NWN2 will cause problems with WA, otherwise it would be a more widespread problem. i know a lot of people who have NWN2 and WA, and they've not experienced any problems.

Well, he said his problem was solved, so...

I didn't read the whole thing... it's been a bit of a hectic day for me so far...

yep - as said: im fine with it now, but no idea where the problem was hided ??!

np not to read the whole story ;) Its a nice sevice, that peeps are answering that fast and telling that other guys did the same (or a similar) way without that bug is also sort of an answer.

thanks so far!
Renadda