C0000005 errors when im playing games

[Thomas Johansson]

HI... sorry for my last post exidently pressed tab
twice... sorry.

Well heres my problem when i play Call of Duty, Warcraft
3 and anarchy online (the only games i have installed)
after a short while the games shut themself down and an
error messege appears, when im playing wc3 it says fatal
error unhandled ecpeption or somthing c0000005 and so on
with tecnikal information.

whn i play CoD i get an windows bug report popup and i
klick the tcnikal information and so on and what do i
c ??? well if it isnt the c0000005 error again...

and in anarchy online the game shuts itself down and a
bug report popupp appears and whn i klick tacnikal
information the c0000005 error is there en bugging my
computer, i have hurd that it can be that my cpu is
overheating and i can be a hardware problem but i really
dont know i did the memtest86 (or somthing like that) i
waited for 20 passes before i shout it down and no errors
so its not a ram problem... PLZ help me im desperate PLZ
help an poor guy from sweden PLZ

 

[Guest]

Poor guy in sveden
Go to control-panel,ADM.,open event viewer for more details
You might also go to run,typeXDIAG And run direct X utility,open the cas
when shutdown feel the processor heat sink,warm is normal,v.hot might indicat
fan problems,replace the fan.

 

[Jim]

I agree with Andrew's suggestions about looking at the
event viewer and running DirectX diagnostics. This might
give you a clue as to which part of the system is crashing.

I don't think this is a thermal problem or it would happen
anytime - not just when playing games. Having worked on
some DirectX games I can tell you that the C000005 error
is usually the result of the program using a pointer which
is set to zero, or some other invalid value. Since you're
having this problem with several games it's unlikely that
this is a leftover bug in the game applications, but is
probably something wrong in your system configuration.
Since it's happening only in games then it's probably a
DirectX driver problem.

Anyway, the DirectX diagnostics might tell you something.
Otherwise, check to make sure you have the latest version
of the DirectX drivers for your sound, video, and game
controllers. Also, make sure the drivers your using are
compatible with the version of DirectX you have installed.
It might not hurt to update everything.

Jim