Help! I'm running Windows Vista/7 and Zelda Classic is crashing!

[pkmnfrk]

Here's how to fix it:



(Click the HD button to make it readable)

tl;dw version: Right click on Zelda-w.exe and ZQuest-w.exe, go to Compatability, and tick off "Disable Desktop Composition"

(sticky plz)

[Gleeok]

How often does it hang when closing? Would you mind posting the last line in allegro.log next time it does it?

[pkmnfrk]

*shakes head* Allegro.log is normal. It hangs after that point.

I find that if I close Zelda-W quickly after opening it (say, after a quick Edit-Save-Test cycle), it hangs almost 100%. If I leave it open, and just quit the Quest (F6, Retry), and then quit Zelda-W (say) an hour later, then it almost never hangs.

I've tried debugging it, and it appears to hang deep within quit_game(). Something about the whole thing screams "threading issue!" which gives me nightmares when I sleep...

[Gleeok]

That's weird. Do you remember the line that caused it?

[pkmnfrk]

It is, of course, not doing under Visual Studio now *grumble*stupid Heisenbugs*mumble*

But, IIRC, it was here:

for (int i=0; i<3; ++i)
  {
    if(tb_page[i]!=NULL)
	  destroy_bitmap(tb_page[i]);
  }

And, I may have misspoken. While debugging, it manifested as an access violation. I am assuming that in a release build (aka, the file that everyone except me is able to produce for no good reason), it manifests as a hang instead.

But, the line above is where it was happening.

[Gleeok]

I added your aero fix to the main page.

Hang issue: Welcome to the fun and exiting world of fixing bugs in ZC! :) ...check your PMS..uhh, I mean PM's.

[basumarra1510]

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thanks for your good question &


thanks guys who answered ...........

[EJKDurile]

I actually tried all that stuff before I found this video, but nothing works, only the tiny windowed mode, and anytime I attempt to increase its size, it crashes anyway

I don't think any version of ZC is compatible with 7, at all

It seems if you can get it to run, you've completely lucked out

or haven't updated windows in awhile.. I've noticed that my brothers 7 laptop which doesnt go online, runs ZC fine after this fix, but after being updated with the newest patches and fixes from Windows Update, ZC is absolutely impossible to run

I can't even find a machine that runs XP anymore.. I'd have it on my tower here, but my towers 64x and I have yet to run a version of XP 64bit that isn't garbage...

I'm thinking ZC needs a major update with regards to running the newest Windows systems.. MS is only months from no longer supporting XP at all, so by 2011 if you don't have at least Vista, your gonna be a major security attack waiting to happen lol

but yeah, I'll keep trying a few things.. if I have to I'll recode the exe file to match a program designed to run with Vista/7 (which is most of them anyway). Course that might destroy the entire programs stability, but at least it'll run... for awhile

[Coyotek4]

I first found this site about a year ago. Had XP at the time. ZC 2.10 downloaded ok enough (I had some color issues and other assorted bugs), and I greatly enjoyed playing all 3 'basic' quests in addition to that other 'uber' quest.

My old computer crashed in early-July of last year; I bought a new one shortly thereafter but didn't try to return to this site until recently. My current computer has Vista.

I have been unable to get 2.10 to work. I tried all the 'fixes', but kept getting the same error message followed by a closing of the game window. Trying to get 1.90 to work fared no better.


Should I assume that I am S.O.L. until the next upgrade?

[elise]

did you try to open it using the zclauncher as an admin