VCMI Project - Heroes 3: WoG recreated

[Vizit0r]

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Smack cannot open ACREDIT.SMK Disaster happened. Reason: 0xc0000005 - EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 001b:004A5FF1 Attempt to read from 0x00000004 Thread ID: c20 [3104] Crash info will be put in VCMI_client.exe_crashinfo.dmp

ACredit.smk exist and correct. anywhere same - 39460 bytes size.

When VCMI_client.exe starts - start video played, next main menu shows and fail :(

i haven't VC Compiler for cut opening this file from sources and compiling. and i hate VC :)




VCMI_client.exe_crashinfo.dmp.rar attached (why .dmp extension not allowed for attaching?)

GRRR! "Sorry, but the maximum filesize for all Attachments is reached. Please contact the Board Administrator if you have questions." WTF? size - 85 kb!

[Zamolxis]

Hi Visit0r & welcome to the forum.

Currently no attachments can be added to forum posts. Sorry for that. You can use THIS link to report bugs/crashes if you want (there you can add attachments).

[Vizit0r]

hi 2 you too

i think that's some my problem, not VCMI.
i'm dev of one project, and i know that 80% of problems - it's hand problems of users. but dev must waste time for insight into the problem - time that could be spent on useful code.



can anyone with normal working VCMI upload anywhere ACredit.smk ?
also if anyone can compile VCMI without playing this video - plz upload compiled .exe too.

[OnionKnight]

If the OS you are running on is case-sensitive about filenames have you made sure it's all in uppercase? My ACREDIT.SMK is also 39460 bytes, with the MD5 sum being 3057018d97b462cd21004302585ef862 and comes from a Heroes 3 Complete installation.

[Tow]

Looks similar to #435. Is VCMI installed on your OS partition? Has VCMI privilages necessary to create, modify and delete files in its folder? Is there any change if you run VCMI as an administrator?

Since you say that ACredit.smk exists (and I assume that it's in the main VCMI directory) than uploading-downloading it is pointless. It wouldn't work anyway, since VCMI extracts it every time from video.vid archive.

The only thing that puzzles me is why ACredit.smk crashes, when intro videos (3DOLOGO.SMK and AZVS.SMK) are played properly.

[Vizit0r]

[Vizit0r]

part2

if ACREDIT.SMK deleted - it's recreated. size same. if it's exists - it's rewriten

looking af file monitor (SysInternals Utils).

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0.00000365 VCMI_client.exe:304 READ D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\Data\H3sprite.lod SUCCESS Offset: 123045083 Length: 4096 0.00033013 VCMI_client.exe:304 CREATE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Options: OverwriteIf Access: 00120196 0.00002443 VCMI_client.exe:304 OPEN D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ SUCCESS Options: Open Directory Access: 00100000 0.00005386 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 0 Length: 4096 0.00003750 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 4096 Length: 4096 0.00000635 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 8192 Length: 4096 0.00000512 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 12288 Length: 4096 0.00003606 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 16384 Length: 4096 0.00000563 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 20480 Length: 4096 0.00000544 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 24576 Length: 4096 0.00000525 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 28672 Length: 4096 0.00003932 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 32768 Length: 4096 0.00000533 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 36864 Length: 2596 0.00010396 VCMI_client.exe:304 CLOSE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS 0.00009589 VCMI_client.exe:304 OPEN D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Options: Open Sequential Access: Read 0.00001097 VCMI_client.exe:304 READ D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS Offset: 0 Length: 104 0.00000956 VCMI_client.exe:304 CLOSE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\ACREDIT.SMK SUCCESS 0.00000499 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\VCMI_Client_log.txt SUCCESS Offset: 1383 Length: 18 0.00000285 VCMI_client.exe:304 WRITE D:\Games\Heroes WOG 3.58f\VCMI_Client_log.txt SUCCESS Offset: 1401 Length: 11

1) end of reading H3sprite.lod
2) rewrite ACREDIT.SMK completely
3) read 104 bytes from ACREDIT.SMK
4) fail - creating crashlog.

[Vizit0r]

in VCMI_client.exe i change by hex-editor ACREDIT.SMK to 3DOLOGO.SMK.

okey, we started :) buttons in main menu partially closed by video, but it's not a problem - i can start game.


as one good man from another forum sad - this problem from non-stardart (edited) video.vid
I can't remember, where i take my heroes3 wog, so this is may be.

[Tow]

Does H3:WoG work properly on that installation? If it's running, then VCMI should also run. If not - then we have a bug.

[Vizit0r]

uploaded file needed no more

yes, WOG working absolutely correctly

all what i can say for possible issue - it's maybe problem in first 104 bytes of ACREDIT.SMK - it's almost full of 00 in hex. maybe incorrect extract from video.vid?

http://file.qip.ru/file/7zmLRK4i/ACREDIT.html - my ACREDIT.SMK

if you need - i can upload my WOG's video.vid (58 mb)

[Tow]

Thank you for the file, I'm able to reproduce the issue now.
Your ACREDIT.SMK seems to be encoded with a newer version of smack than rest of H3 videos (first 4 magic bytes are SMK4 instead of SMK2). I'll try looking closer into how H3 handles it.

[Vizit0r]

problem found - it's 90% of fix :)

good

[Tow]

I've put your file into my VIDEO.VID and tried running H3:WoG with it. However it seems that my copy of H3 can't handle your ACREDIT.SMK fille neither. It doesn't crash but video is not displayed.

Please, check again - run your WoG and tell if in the main menu the letter "t" in "IN THE WAKE OF GODS" is animated - it should be rotating. [That is the video in the ACREDIT.]

We surely should improve handling of invalid video files (VCMI should not crash) and we will but I fear that's all we can do here.

[Tow]

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We surely should improve handling of invalid video files (VCMI should not crash) and we will

Done in r1675

[Vizit0r]