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First post, by TubeWave

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Greetings everyone. This is my first post here so please excuse my inexperience.

I have a really annoying issue with my 98SE PC which consists of when I play a game like LEGO Rock Raiders or Monopoly Junior, after clicking exit on the game it gives me a invalid page fault error because of DDHELP.EXE.

DDHELP caused an invalid page fault in module <unknown> op0000:baabb1f9. Registers: EAX=baabb1f9 CS=0167 EIP=baabb1f9 EFLGS=0001 […]
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DDHELP caused an invalid page fault in module <unknown> op0000:baabb1f9.
Registers:
EAX=baabb1f9 CS=0167 EIP=baabb1f9 EFLGS=00010286
EBX=00000010 SS=016f ESP=007dfd3c EBP=007dfd4c
ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=00008dc2 FS=2e0f
EDX=00008dde ES=016f EDI=007dfd54 GS=2df7
Bytes in CS:EIP:

Stackdump:
010039e3 007dfd54 00008dc2 007dfd9e 007dfd6c bff7363b 0000022c 0000007e 00000010 04b00640 8d9c2e07 0000016f 007dfd80 bff94407 2df78dc2 00002df7

I can close down the error but if I try to play something else. The computer freezes. I have no choice but to Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reset my way out of this.

I use a NVIDIA Geforce 4200 TI 8X (128MB) with Direct X 9.0C and the NVIDIA Forceware version I use is 43.45.

I tried uninstalling the NVIDIA Drivers via control panel and reinstalling the drivers again. After that's done I can get one boot up of Windows to get my games to exit without DDHELP.EXE yelling at me.
The only catch is that I can only reset the PC via Windows safely. If I click "Shut Down Windows" it hangs on the "Windows is shutting down" splash screen. (Also really annoying.)

Even if I safely reset to evade this bug it still is futile because the next time I test the games and exit, the DDHELP error returns.

I tried looking up online but I only found vague answers and I am really puzzled how so many people use NVIDIA cards like mine on Win98SE and never experienced this problem.

I really hope this can be solved because it kind of ruins the experience for me if I have to stress about things like that.

Thanks in advance.

Reply 1 of 1, by Gopher666

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I have the same crap with my 4200 Ti in 98 and XP as well but very rare. So far it only happens with Starcraft 1 from the games I play.
At one point doing the standard terran campaign it always crashes at the start of a mission.
Latest patch 1.15.
LoL that SC is even 2D it would even work without a 3D driver, won't remove it just for this as the other games work fine.