Well, that was quick. You always figure stuff out just after you ask for help... As bonkers as this sounds, this was a networking issue. I traced it with WinDbg time-travel debugging, and even though the symbols were saying HxAudio, the calls I was seeing were going to code that was clearly making …

I recently tried to run XIII (Classic) from GoG under Windows 10, and it crashes every time. The underlying problem seems to be in HxAudio.dll, which is generating a 0xC0000005 error. Launching the game with WinDbg shows that the code runs until it hits: 06a27726 8b5308 mov edx, dword ptr [ebx+8] ds …

I recently purchased Discworld Noir on eBay, and couldn't get it to run, due to problems with the disc protection scheme. I installed the game, and used a no-cd crack to bypass the protection, and the game seems to work ok now. There are some known, severe bugs (such as don't try to restore a save …