Resolving "access violation" error on modern PCs in 2023

[Whitehawkx]

I know this game is delisted and hard to come by. However, if you do have it and try to play it on a modern PC you'll constantly receive "access violation" errors on startup. After 2 days of troubleshooting, I found a solution. You need to create a batch script to launch the game with 8 cores. Doing this allowed me to launch the game on my PC with a 13th gen Intel and 4090 GPU.

Here are the steps - open a text editor like Notepad++ and add the following:

cd "path/to/file/graw2.exe"
Start /Affinity FF graw2.exe

Now save it as graw2.bat and presto, you're finished. You'll have to double-click the bat file every time to launch the game, but at least it works now. Enjoy!

[[CS] Nathan Brown]

Brilliant, thank you!

[OneShotSniper95]

Nothing happens when trying to launch the batch file.

The path is correct, tried launching batch file but nothing.

[Whitehawkx]

Originally posted by OneShotSniper95:

Nothing happens when trying to launch the batch file.

The path is correct, tried launching batch file but nothing.

Can you post everything that's in your bat file? I can take a look.

[Curp]

I get the same issue. What I put in my graw2.bat is below:

cd "D:/Program Files (x86)/UBISOFT/Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2/graw2.exe"
Start /Affinity FF graw2.exe



Then the error I get is:

Crash in application version: 0.3048

Unhandled exception - access violation

C STACK:
graw2 (???) : ???
??? (???) : ???
graw2 (???) : ???

Renderer: normal
Physics : normal

[Whitehawkx]

Originally posted by Curp:

I get the same issue. What I put in my graw2.bat is below:

cd "D:/Program Files (x86)/UBISOFT/Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2/graw2.exe"
Start /Affinity FF graw2.exe



Then the error I get is:

Crash in application version: 0.3048

Unhandled exception - access violation

C STACK:
graw2 (???) : ???
??? (???) : ???
graw2 (???) : ???

Renderer: normal
Physics : normal

I notice you're using the drm free version, but I can't see why that would really matter. Have you installed the legacy PhysX drivers? They're required for Win10 and above. Also, make sure you're on the latest update which I believe is 1.05.

[Curp]

Originally posted by Whitehawkx:

Originally posted by Curp:

I get the same issue. What I put in my graw2.bat is below:

cd "D:/Program Files (x86)/UBISOFT/Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2/graw2.exe"
Start /Affinity FF graw2.exe



Then the error I get is:

Crash in application version: 0.3048

Unhandled exception - access violation

C STACK:
graw2 (???) : ???
??? (???) : ???
graw2 (???) : ???

Renderer: normal
Physics : normal

I notice you're using the drm free version, but I can't see why that would really matter. Have you installed the legacy PhysX drivers? They're required for Win10 and above. Also, make sure you're on the latest update which I believe is 1.05.

I had installed this previously: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/physx-9-13-0604-legacy-driver/

Not sure if there's a different version or type of legacy driver I would need instead. And the game is patched to 1.05 as well. Maybe I should've switched from retail to steam version when I had the chance.

[Raphael The Uninstall Wizard]

.bat file needs to reference to .exe, so place .bat file within game directory or folder itself.

The game runs on my WIN 10/13900K/4090 system.

[Charley Tank]

I don't have any problems running any of the old Tom Clancy's games, I just uploaded artwork yesterday from the original Ghost Recon it's release date is 2001.