Game Crashing Due To GraphicsEngineDX10.dll

[maverickvf142 2]

Hi all,

 

I've recently fired back up SF2 after a while away from playing and I've noticed that whenever I play a campaign, the game crashes about 10 minutes into it. It doesn't seem to happen when I select single mission. The only thing I can think of is that I updated the game to June 2013 about three months ago. However, I know that certain aircraft require the June 2013 update to work correctly which was the reason I updated the game. 

 

Before I remove and reinstall the game, I was wondering if any of you guys have had this problem and if so, can you tell me if it is related to the patch or not? I read several posts regarding this issue and it seems that the GraphicsEngineDX10.dll file may be the culprit.

 

Though it may or may not be irrelevant, I installed DirectX 9 to play another game about a month ago under the impression that the DIrectX on my computer (DX11) will not be corrupted in any way. Could the installation of DirectX 9 have something to do with this problem?

 

 

Here is the error from the event viewer 

 

 

Log Name:      Application

Source:        Application Error

Date:          8/18/2015 8:10:08 PM

Event ID:      1000

Task Category: (100)

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      Maverick

Description:

Faulting application name: StrikeFighters2 Vietnam.exe, version: 13.7.1.35, time stamp: 0x51d22159

Faulting module name: GraphicsEngineDX10.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x51d37ec1

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00032df4

Faulting process id: 0x141c

Faulting application start time: 0x01d0da0f7ca8101f

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\ThirdWire\Strike Fighters 2\StrikeFighters2 Vietnam.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\ThirdWire\Strike Fighters 2\Core\GraphicsEngineDX10.dll

Report Id: a62acf8e-4606-11e5-8270-a0886961a241

Faulting package full name: 

Faulting package-relative application ID: 

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="Application Error" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>100</Task>

    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-08-19T00:10:08.000000000Z" />

    <EventRecordID>25572</EventRecordID>

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>Godzilla</Computer>

    <Security />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data>StrikeFighters2 Vietnam.exe</Data>

    <Data>13.7.1.35</Data>

    <Data>51d22159</Data>

    <Data>GraphicsEngineDX10.dll</Data>

    <Data>0.0.0.0</Data>

    <Data>51d37ec1</Data>

    <Data>c0000005</Data>

    <Data>00032df4</Data>

    <Data>141c</Data>

    <Data>01d0da0f7ca8101f</Data>

    <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\ThirdWire\Strike Fighters 2\StrikeFighters2 Vietnam.exe</Data>

    <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\ThirdWire\Strike Fighters 2\Core\GraphicsEngineDX10.dll</Data>

    <Data>a62acf8e-4606-11e5-8270-a0886961a241</Data>

    <Data>

    </Data>

    <Data>

    </Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>

Thanks,

 

maverickvf142

[+Spectre8750 167]

What Windows version?

[maverickvf142 2]

I have Windows 8.1

 

**UPDATE 1**

I found a hotfix for July 2013 and it seems to be working. Not sure though. I'm going to give it a test run and update you guys after a few campaign missions.

 

Here's the link of the hotfix for those who may encounter this problem in the future

http://combatace.com/files/file/15186-sf2-hotfix-july-2013/

Edited August 19, 2015 by maverickvf142

[maverickvf142 2]

**UPDATE 2**

 

Well, I have played about an hour into the game starting near the target. I am going to test starting from home base since most of the crashes either occur shortly after takeoff from runway or when I decide to refly after unsatisfactory results. Refly does not seem to be a problem since I've reflown several missions starting near the target. I will test starting from the runway tomorrow when I have time as well as the refly option. I feel pretty confident that the hotfix took care of the problem BUT again, I was able to play about an hour through a campaign starting from runway before crashing earlier today before the hotfix. Tomorrow is my first day at my new job so I guess I'm gonna have to take a break from SF2 for the rest of tonight. 

[+Spectre8750 167]

That sounds good. Hey SF2 has crashed on me with Win7. It's just something that can happen once in a while, but it shouldn't crash a lot.