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XIII (Classic) crashing on startup

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First post, by g051051

Posted on 2021-12-24, 18:42

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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:

106a27726 8b5308         mov     edx, dword ptr [ebx+8] ds:002b:02691530=00000668
206a27729 8d4c2454       lea     ecx, [esp+54h]
306a2772d 6a10           push    10h
406a2772f 51             push    ecx
506a27730 52             push    edx
606a27731 ff155889a506   call    dword ptr [HXAudio!gglobalvolume+0x2078 (06a58958)]  ds:002b:06a58958=6501a8c0

The last call there causes the crash, with that address (6501a8c0) not being valid.

I can actually install and run the game in a Windows 10 VM (with terrible graphics performance). I'm at the limits of my debugging skills here, does anyone have any ideas?

Reply 1 of 1, by g051051

Posted on 2021-12-24, 18:58

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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 socket calls.

In my case, I have VirtualBox installed, and when I disabled the VirtualBox Host-Only Adapter, the game suddenly started working.

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