With the release of AGD's KQ3 Redux, I decided to go back and replay Radiant's Kings Quest 3 Plus: An Heir Raising Tale in order to compare the two. At one point the game terminated with the following error message:
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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x00449B26 ; program pointer is +77, ACI version 2.62.772, gtags (1,10)
AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.
(Global script line 3782)
Most versions of Windows allow you to press Ctrl+C now to copy this entire message to the clipboard for easy reporting.
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OK
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The error occurs when I am in the treehouse and click the rope on the sleeping bandit. I first reported this in the forum for Radiant's game, but then I noticed that the error message said to "notify CJ on the Tech forum," so I am reporting it here as well.
When I first played this game a few years back I was able to complete the task without getting this error, so I wonder whether something has changed in Windows that causes this to happen. I am using the same computer as I used before, running Windows XP.
EDITL I changed the title of this thread because I thought the original title was too non-specific.
I don't know if it's strictly relevant (to AGS), but some Googling on "0xC0000005" seems to suggest that the error is an "access violation".
To determine anything further than that, you'd probably need to know what global script line 3782 is..Radiant?
Sorry, this game was made with a very old version of AGS (2.62) which is no longer supported.
You could try running Winsetup and turning off the audio, this sometimes fixes crashes in 2.x versions.
I tried that just now, and it still crashes as before.