Etherium

Etherium

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Lost Game Dev Sep 19, 2024 @ 10:42am
Tutorial Crash fix!
I noticed that even with -force-d3d9 even though i would get passed the ground conquest mission when i did the final mission of the tutorial and pressed end i would crash before the proper conquest mode would launch, as i was looking through the files of Etherium i noticed something odd, a dll file named AVProWindowsMedia-x64.dll there was also another dll file called AVProWindowsMedia.dll i then assumed that the -x64 dll file was for 64 bit games as AVProWindowsMedia is a unity engine plugin. The problem is that Etherium isn't a 64 bit game, despite what the games window title says the game runs as a 32 bit program, so i simply removed the file from the game to see what would happen, and suddenly i was able to get pass the tutorial, after multiple tests i can say with confidence AVProWindowsMedia-x64.dll is the cause of the tutorial crash, re-adding the file caused me to crash when going through the tutorial and removing it fixed the crash. The file is located at Etherium_Data\Plugins, unfortunately even with -force-d3d9 and removing AVProWindowsMedia-x64.dll i did still crash during the normal conquest mode so the crashes are still present but these two fixes helps severely in removing the crashes, if you save often then the game is definitely playable now. I'm currently writing a BepInEx plugin that will add more QoL features and will also fix crashes and bugs hopefully ill be able to fix most if not all the crashing issues. I should also note that AVProWindowsMedia.dll (not the 64 bit one) is needed only delete AVProWindowsMedia-x64.dll
Last edited by Lost Game Dev; Sep 19, 2024 @ 12:50pm