Winsetup.exe crashes upon opening, illegal exception

[hillaryj]

Hello. I just downloaded the "5 Days a Stranger" game and tried to run it. This resulted in a "cannot initialize graphics" error and it told me to modify the resolution using winsetup.exe. When I clicked on winsetup.exe however, this error appeared:

Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x0046DD82 ; program pointer is +9902, ACI version 2.55.560, gtags (0,0)

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.



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I am trying to run this game using the WINE Windows emulator on Ubuntu. When I tried to run winsetup.exe on another laptop with Windows 7 installed, it worked just fine and I was able to run 5days.exe. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Gilbert]

Instead try running the command:

Gamename.exe --setup
(where Gamename.exe is the game of the game's executable)

and see whether it makes any difference. Winsetup.exe is just a wrapper to launch the above command.

[Crimson Wizard]

According to the engine source, program pointer +9902 is in the Quit procedure (called when application is shutting down) just before screen buffer is released. .
Probably something related to graphics driver too.