Startup APPCRASH Sculptris.exe

[Athgarde]

Hi one and all!

I've been playing around in Sculptris for some months, and when I got Windows 7 64x Ultimate, I started experience some enerving problems regarding starting up Sculptris. Every time I try to do this, I tend to get an Appcrash message.

How can I solve this problem?

I've been quite addicted to sculptris, so yeah... It's a bit lame that it started to happen now...

Specs:
Graphics card: ATI Radeon Sapphire HD4870
CPU: Intel Quadcore Q6600 2,4gHz
RAM: 4 Gb


::Appcrash Message:

"Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Sculptris.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4c481d8c
Fault Module Name: aticfx32.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.17.10.1036
Fault Module Timestamp: 4c33de40
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000218e1
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1053
Additional Information 1: 5107
Additional Information 2: 5107b813b643135199ebf05bfc635d95
Additional Information 3: 5d9c
Additional Information 4: 5d9cdcad438f1eda39faa8a7b2e17253

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[DrPetter]

Hi. Can you enable the log file and see what it writes on the last few lines, perhaps indicating where the crash occured? Edit config.txt to say "log_enabled 1", or you can simply remove the config and settings files to create a default startup log. You should make backups of those files if you want to restore settings later.

[Serek]

About topic, some custom-made materials are busted. I had a similar problem when there were about 40 png files in the materials folder, so I had to check file per file till I found the 2-3 corrupted files.

@drpetter, have you noticed that you can drag ANY kind of file to the sculptris.exe and it will run anyway, no successfully nor any usable, just a messed up Sculptris window? I discovered it accidentally.

[Athgarde]

Hi DrPetter!

Well, I tried to do that in the sculptris config.txt .

It didn't report anything. It's when I start the program it instantly appcrashes, so I can't even get in to the program.

Anyhow, this is from the "log".txt

"log start -> 'D:\sculptris\log.txt'
CreateGLWindow()
CreateGLWindow: start
CreateGLWindow: register class
CreateGLWindow: adjustwindowrect
CreateGLWindow: create window
CreateGLWindow: getdc"

[DrPetter]

Serek: Not really. I tried it now with a few different unrelated files and it seemed to start up as usual, without problems.

[Serek]

Well, maybe I only tried with the adjacent DAT files, nothing you could call an exhaustive research. Maybe that "ANY" has been a little exaggerated :o

[DrPetter]

Athgarde: That's useful information though. If there's no more text after that in the log, it seems to indicate that your ATI graphics driver crashed when Sculptris tried to get a device context for the application window. I don't have any immediate ideas about the cause behind it though. Are you having any problems with other OpenGL applications?

[Athgarde]

DrPetter: No, I don't have any similar problems with any other openGL application. So, I don't really know why this is happening though. It's quite enerving when beeing addicted to this software :confused:

[JimB0]

I read somewhere that setting mt_maxthreads to 0 in Sculptris config.txt helped.

Also you could try setting enable_shaders 0 and see if it helps.

Sorry if you have tried the above already. :)

[Athgarde]

Thank you guys for giving me your time on helping me here.
Anyhow, I've managed to solve the problems, I needed the new graphicscard drivers ( thought i already had installed them )

So thanks anyway!

People with similar problems should fix the latest graphics drivers to avoid the same problems of which i was having.