CTD on startup

[rvh]

Having a crash to desktop on launch of Europa Barbarorum.

Newish OS install. Fresh RTW install, 1.5 patch, EB1.1 install, EB1.2 patch. Installed to C:/RTW/ (not program files). No other mods/patches/fixes.

Rough Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.7GHz
4GB RAM
Geforce 9800GTX+

Procmon output:
18:56:03.4543563 RomeTW.exe 852 Process Start SUCCESS Parent PID: 3556
18:56:03.4543681 RomeTW.exe 852 Thread Create SUCCESS Thread ID: 2816
18:56:03.4638348 RomeTW.exe 852 Load Image C:\RomeTW\RomeTW.exe SUCCESS Image Base: 0x400000, Image Size: 0x2097000
18:56:03.4657832 RomeTW.exe 852 Load Image C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll SUCCESS Image Base: 0x77490000, Image Size: 0x1ab000
18:56:03.4689536 RomeTW.exe 852 Load Image C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll SUCCESS Image Base: 0x77670000, Image Size: 0x180000
18:56:03.4691821 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFile C:\Windows\Prefetch\ROMETW.EXE-862C9E8A.pf NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: n/a
18:56:03.4695924 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFile C:\Windows SUCCESS Desired Access: Execute/Traverse, Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
18:56:03.4697590 RomeTW.exe 852 QueryOpen C:\Windows\System32\wow64.dll FAST IO DISALLOWED
18:56:03.4698528 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64.dll SUCCESS Desired Access: Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
18:56:03.4699588 RomeTW.exe 852 QueryBasicInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64.dll SUCCESS CreationTime: 14/07/2009 00:26:35, LastAccessTime: 14/07/2009 00:26:35, LastWriteTime: 14/07/2009 02:41:57, ChangeTime: 25/05/8210 05:16:49, FileAttributes: A
18:56:03.4699825 RomeTW.exe 852 CloseFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64.dll SUCCESS
18:56:03.4701321 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64.dll SUCCESS Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Execute/Traverse, Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
18:56:03.4702588 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFileMapping C:\Windows\System32\wow64.dll FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS SyncType: SyncTypeCreateSection, PageProtection:
18:56:03.4703530 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFileMapping C:\Windows\System32\wow64.dll SUCCESS SyncType: SyncTypeOther
18:56:03.4706116 RomeTW.exe 852 Load Image C:\Windows\System32\wow64.dll SUCCESS Image Base: 0x73bd0000, Image Size: 0x3f000
18:56:03.4706474 RomeTW.exe 852 CloseFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64.dll SUCCESS
18:56:03.4710825 RomeTW.exe 852 QueryOpen C:\Windows\System32\wow64win.dll FAST IO DISALLOWED
18:56:03.4711999 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64win.dll SUCCESS Desired Access: Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
18:56:03.4713117 RomeTW.exe 852 QueryBasicInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64win.dll SUCCESS CreationTime: 14/07/2009 00:38:45, LastAccessTime: 14/07/2009 00:38:45, LastWriteTime: 14/07/2009 02:41:57, ChangeTime: 25/05/8210 05:16:49, FileAttributes: A
18:56:03.4713361 RomeTW.exe 852 CloseFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64win.dll SUCCESS
18:56:03.4714720 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64win.dll SUCCESS Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Execute/Traverse, Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
18:56:03.4716082 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFileMapping C:\Windows\System32\wow64win.dll FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS SyncType: SyncTypeCreateSection, PageProtection:
18:56:03.4725343 RomeTW.exe 852 CreateFileMapping C:\Windows\System32\wow64win.dll SUCCESS SyncType: SyncTypeOther
18:56:03.4732863 RomeTW.exe 852 Load Image C:\Windows\System32\wow64win.dll SUCCESS Image Base: 0x73b70000, Image Size: 0x5c000
18:56:03.4733375 RomeTW.exe 852 CloseFile C:\Windows\System32\wow64win.dll SUCCESS
18:56:03.4736322 RomeTW.exe 852 QueryOpen C:\Windows\System32\wow64cpu.dll FAST IO DISALLOWED

The jist:
Lots of NAME NOT FOUND, FAST IO DISALLOWED, NAME COLLISIONS and a couple of FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS.

Any ideas? Much appreciated.

[XSamatan]

Hello and welcome to the forum!

If you are new to EB, be sure to not miss the EB-FAQ

Concerning your problem, I would ask you to start RTW alone and report the results. Are there any other programs that give you a similar error?
The file it crashed is the virtualization for a 32bit program under a 64bit environment. Is your OS 64bit?
Are you running RTW with administrator-rights?

XSamatan

[G. Septimus]

uhh, I don't use Windows 7 OS so, can't help you. and try to run RomeTW.exe first

Sev

[rvh]

Thanks for your replies. RTW runs and plays fine and no problems or CTDs encountered with any other software/games on the machine.

Have tried running as administrator but there is no change.

To be more specific, when running EB I get a RTW splash screen which quickly switches to the full screen application with the activision RTW splash behind it. Then it just exits to desktop within a second with no error message.

Is this Windows 7 64 bit specific, has anyone else run EB on this OS??

[XSamatan]

The crash should be 64bit specific, as the last loaded .dll is a 32bit virtualization. You are the first one who reports something like this here, but crashes due to that file are reported elsewhere.

Is this splash-screen the vanilla one?

XSamatan