Crash on startup, no error message or anything. Thread - STALKER Complete 2009 mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

1. Downloaded STALKER SOC
2. Patched up to 1.005
3. Played for a little bit (2-3 hours)
4. Downloaded and installed STALKER SOC Complete, latest ver.
5. Game is in english, mod installs successfully
6. Try to start up the game, and I am greeted to a black fullscreen window and the program closes after like 2 seconds

There was no error or crash message or anything.Crash log:* Detected CPU: GenuineIntel P3 family, F6/M15/S11, 2669.00 mhz, 65-clk 'rdtsc'
* CPU Features: RDTSC, MMX, SSE, SSE2

Initializing File System...
using fs-ltx fsgame.ltx
--found external arch mp_military_2.xdb0
FS: 32273 files cached, 5777Kb memory used.
Init FileSystem 1.398052 sec
'xrCore' build 3188, Oct 26 2007

Initializing Engine...
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
[c:\documents and settings\all users\documents\stalker-shoc\user.ltx] successfully loaded.
Starting INPUT device...
Loading DLL: xrRender_R2.dll
Loading DLL: xrGame.dll
* [win32]: free[2891616 K], reserved[20984 K], committed[56936 K]
* [ D3D ]: textures[0 K]
* [x-ray]: crt heap[7746 K], process heap[1151 K], game lua[0 K], engine lua[0 K], render[0 K]
* [x-ray]: economy: strings[1126 K], smem[0 K]
Executing config-script "c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx"...
[c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx] successfully loaded.
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
Executing config-script "c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\rspec_extreme.ltx"...
! Unknown command: r__dtex_range
! Unknown command: r__ssa_glod_end
! Unknown command: r__ssa_glod_start
! Unknown command: r__wallmark_ttl
! Unknown command: rs_detail
! Unknown command: rs_skeleton_update
! Unknown command: vid_bpp
[c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\rspec_extreme.ltx] successfully loaded.
Executing config-script "c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx"...
[c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx] successfully loaded.
[c:\documents and settings\all users\documents\stalker-shoc\user.ltx] successfully loaded.
SOUND: OpenAL: enumerate devices...
SOUND: OpenAL: EnumerationExtension Present
devices Generic Hardware
SOUND: OpenAL: system default SndDevice name is Generic Hardware
SOUND: OpenAL: default SndDevice name set to Generic Software
SOUND: OpenAL: All available devices:
1. Generic Hardware, Spec Version 1.1
2. Generic Software, Spec Version 1.1 (default)
SOUND: OpenAL: SelectBestDevice is Generic Software 1.1
SOUND: OpenAL: Required device: Generic Software. Created device: Generic Software.
* sound: EAX 2.0 extension: absent
* sound: EAX 2.0 deferred: absent
* sound : cache: 32773 kb, 3805 lines, 8820 bpl
Starting RENDER device...
* GPU [vendor:1002]-[device:68B8]: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
* GPU driver: 6.14.10.7164

FATAL ERROR

[error]Expression : Invalid call
[error]Function : CHW::CreateDevice
[error]File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xr_3da\HW.cpp
[error]Line : 330
[error]Description : R

stack trace:

This also happened to me. The only way I got the game to work was to run it in XP compatibility mode. The load times are insanely long but at least it plays.

exact same problem :/ please help !

Same here...
Running it with XP Compatibility showed an Error:XR_3DA.exe caused BREAKPOINT in module "E:\Programme\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl\bin\xrCore.dll" at 0023:011B7CB5, xrDebug::backend()+165 byte(s)

My Specs:
i5 - 2500k8GB RamGTX 560 TiWin 7 64Bit

EDIT: Found a solution

As in the CrashLog File was an entry that a crash occurred in file "string_table.cpp", I thought there are maybe issues because of using the German Version.
So I installed the English Version - now it works!But it would be great (for some update in the future) to be able to keep my language!

Edited by: MCMoses

I have the exact same error as the last person here. But I'm already using the English version. I will try the unpacked version of Complete 2009 and report back. (I'm using Windows 8 64bit so I don't know if I have the option to turn on the 3Gb switch in the boot.ini file or not. I did take the steps of enabling Large address aware in the XR_3DA.exe file but that alone didn't help which I presumed. I did'nt go further with that as I didn't know windows 8 boot.ini can go editing or not.

THanks for any help.

same story here but for italian - what I tried, was to launch SoC as admin, winxp compatible, comment out the shader overhauls (blur, SSAO etc.) but no luck. BTW I got a genuine Soc DVD installed on a PC with ATI radeon HD 5670 card. Hope someone will come out with a fix or some cos I wanna see this mod badly.

I just found a solution from gsc-game.com by "Bangalore" at this link. Iit reads:

Bangalore wrote: About this error, if you search the gsc forum, it can mean corrupted installation or something wrong with patching.
Natvac posted about this error:
"ProcessArchive function error implies that it could not read one of the compressed gamedata.db* files. That indicates a bad installation."

Another post by notanumber with the same error log:
"I've found the source of the problem (and the solution): some of the textures subfolders contained files with the name "thumbs.db" and those files seem to be responsible for the crash. Deleting them solved the problem."

So my 2 cents goes: delete all thumbs.db from mods gamedata\textures folder.

Those thumbs.db files contain miniaturized pictures, and sometimes act as read-only system files and the mod installation can get borked.

So find all the "Thumbs.db" files and delete them. This actually worked for me. And just wanted to re-post this here. There should be just 3 of them in the "textures" folder.

Theguy246 wrote:

1. Downloaded STALKER SOC
2. Patched up to 1.005
3. Played for a little bit (2-3 hours)
4. Downloaded and installed STALKER SOC Complete, latest ver.
5. Game is in english, mod installs successfully
6. Try to start up the game, and I am greeted to a black fullscreen window and the program closes after like 2 seconds

There was no error or crash message or anything.Crash log:* Detected CPU: GenuineIntel P3 family, F6/M15/S11, 2669.00 mhz, 65-clk 'rdtsc'
* CPU Features: RDTSC, MMX, SSE, SSE2

Initializing File System...
using fs-ltx fsgame.ltx
--found external arch mp_military_2.xdb0
FS: 32273 files cached, 5777Kb memory used.
Init FileSystem 1.398052 sec
'xrCore' build 3188, Oct 26 2007

Initializing Engine...
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
[c:\documents and settings\all users\documents\stalker-shoc\user.ltx] successfully loaded.
Starting INPUT device...
Loading DLL: xrRender_R2.dll
Loading DLL: xrGame.dll
* [win32]: free[2891616 K], reserved[20984 K], committed[56936 K]
* [ D3D ]: textures[0 K]
* [x-ray]: crt heap[7746 K], process heap[1151 K], game lua[0 K], engine lua[0 K], render[0 K]
* [x-ray]: economy: strings[1126 K], smem[0 K]
Executing config-script "c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx"...
[c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx] successfully loaded.
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
Executing config-script "c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\rspec_extreme.ltx"...
! Unknown command: r__dtex_range
! Unknown command: r__ssa_glod_end
! Unknown command: r__ssa_glod_start
! Unknown command: r__wallmark_ttl
! Unknown command: rs_detail
! Unknown command: rs_skeleton_update
! Unknown command: vid_bpp
[c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\rspec_extreme.ltx] successfully loaded.
Executing config-script "c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx"...
[c:\program files\thq\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx] successfully loaded.
[c:\documents and settings\all users\documents\stalker-shoc\user.ltx] successfully loaded.
SOUND: OpenAL: enumerate devices...
SOUND: OpenAL: EnumerationExtension Present
devices Generic Hardware
SOUND: OpenAL: system default SndDevice name is Generic Hardware
SOUND: OpenAL: default SndDevice name set to Generic Software
SOUND: OpenAL: All available devices:
1. Generic Hardware, Spec Version 1.1
2. Generic Software, Spec Version 1.1 (default)
SOUND: OpenAL: SelectBestDevice is Generic Software 1.1
SOUND: OpenAL: Required device: Generic Software. Created device: Generic Software.
* sound: EAX 2.0 extension: absent
* sound: EAX 2.0 deferred: absent
* sound : cache: 32773 kb, 3805 lines, 8820 bpl
Starting RENDER device...
* GPU [vendor:1002]-[device:68B8]: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
* GPU driver: 6.14.10.7164

FATAL ERROR

[error]Expression : Invalid call
[error]Function : CHW::CreateDevice
[error]File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xr_3da\HW.cpp
[error]Line : 330
[error]Description : R

stack trace:

Ok i play STALKER complete 2012 on Steam without bug (30 hours game and no crash) I will describe my install steps (sry for bad english) :

1 - install the game with STALKER_Complete_2009_1.4.4.exe
2 - go to ..\Steam\steamapps\common\stalker shadow of
chernobyl\gamedata\config\ and delete the "localization.ltx" (or cut it
out from this folder).
3 - for delete ads intro just write in launch option of game on steam "-nointro".
tips and more :
Intall directx11, Update Nvidia driver, disable Nvidia display service and give a fixed speed fan on the graphics card (with EVGA precision X for example). Install SC Realistic Weapons add-on 0.8 and put very hight difficulty for a experience like Misery mod.

my config : I7 870, ASUS GTX 570, 6GB ram, windows 7 pro 64x

Edited by: Spetsnaz47