"Application error occurred" - "External component has thrown an exception"

[RaschWolf]

So I bought Space engineers yesterday, but when I tried to start it, it gave me an "Application error occurred" message, and directed me to the log file. I've posted the log file below:

2014-09-06 09:39:21.161 - Thread: 1 -> Log Started
2014-09-06 09:39:21.174 - Thread: 1 -> Timezone (local - UTC): -4h
2014-09-06 09:39:21.174 - Thread: 1 -> App Version: 01_046_014
2014-09-06 09:39:21.174 - Thread: 1 -> Steam build: Always true
2014-09-06 09:39:21.174 - Thread: 1 -> Steam demo: False
2014-09-06 09:39:21.175 - Thread: 1 -> Is official: True [O][IS][NAMP]
2014-09-06 09:39:21.175 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.ProcessorCount: 4
2014-09-06 09:39:21.175 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.OSVersion: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
2014-09-06 09:39:21.175 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.CommandLine: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SpaceEngineers\Bin64\SpaceEngineers.exe"
2014-09-06 09:39:21.175 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.Is64BitProcess: True
2014-09-06 09:39:21.175 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem: True
2014-09-06 09:39:21.175 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.Version: 4.0.30319.18408
2014-09-06 09:39:21.175 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.CurrentDirectory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SpaceEngineers\Bin64
2014-09-06 09:39:21.177 - Thread: 1 -> MainAssembly.ProcessorArchitecture: MSIL
2014-09-06 09:39:21.178 - Thread: 1 -> ExecutingAssembly.ProcessorArchitecture: MSIL
2014-09-06 09:39:21.178 - Thread: 1 -> IntPtr.Size: 8
2014-09-06 09:39:21.178 - Thread: 1 -> Default Culture: en-US
2014-09-06 09:39:21.178 - Thread: 1 -> Default UI Culture: en-US
2014-09-06 09:39:21.179 - Thread: 1 -> IsAdmin: True
2014-09-06 09:39:21.524 - Thread: 1 -> Exception occured: System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException (0x80004005): External component has thrown an exception.
at System.Security.Cryptography.CapiHashAlgorithm.Initialize()
at System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256CryptoServiceProvider..ctor()
at VRage.Cryptography.MySHA256.CreateInternal()
at VRage.Cryptography.MySHA256.Create()
at B337879D0C82A5F9C44D51D954769590.828C2DB8877F9AC404A8908ADBC077D6.87103CCB58BD546691CCB23009E3B3E9()
at 83BCBFA49B3A2A6EC1BC99583DA2D399.49BCFF86BA276A9C7C0D269C2924DE2D.0D8AAA624C2EEA412F85ABB3AEFAF743(String[] 954514EA42AFFE4302240CE14E5D6683)
2014-09-06 09:39:21.526 - Thread: 1 -> Hiding window
2014-09-06 09:39:21.526 - Thread: 1 -> Hiding window done
2014-09-06 09:39:21.526 - Thread: 1 -> Showing message


Any ideas? Thanks.

[NolanSyKinsley]

This is odd... You are running windows 7 but it should not have this issue... But I do know how to fix it.

Go into you game files in "Program Files/Steam/SteamAppa/Common/SpaceEngineers/Content" and delete the Checksum.xml file.

I ran into this issue with WINE and windows XP as they do not support SHA-2 checksums, but windows 7 should handle them no problem.

[RaschWolf]

Thanks, it's working now. Any idea why it did that?

[NolanSyKinsley]

Originally posted by heffestuss1314:

Thanks, it's working now. Any idea why it did that?

I know why it happens under XP and WINE, no idea why it happened under windows 7, it should fully support SHA-2

[RaschWolf]

Ok. It's starting now, but it keeps locking up, and I have to open the task manager to shut it down. No error message. Could this be related, or is it most likey a differant problem?

[RaschWolf]

Further note: I was just looking around, and it seems that SE has issues with AMD graphics cards (I have the AMD Radeon HD 6520G, dedicated 512 mb memory)

[RaschWolf]

I've updated my display driver things, I'll see if it helps.

[RaschWolf]

Nope, still crashing.

[NolanSyKinsley]

The crashing while in game is a separate issue from the checksum.xml file, I am not too familiar with the issues surrounding SE and AMD, I mainly work with SE under linux fixing bugs that appear under WINE.

[RaschWolf]

Got it. As it turns out, the crashing seemed to be from a corrupted map. It's working fine now. Thanks.