Game keeps crashing: Access Violation (code 0xc0000005)

[Perhaps]

Hello everyone,

I picked up Peggle Deluxe during the steam sale. I managed to play it for an hour or so, closed it, and now it won't open. It keeps giving me the access violation code.

I made sure my NVIDIA drivers were up to date, but that doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. Can someone help me out or know of a fix?

Here's the entire code failure message:

Exception: Access Violation (code 0xc0000005) at address 004FB3B1 in thread 1914
Module: popcapgame1.exe
Logical Address: 0001:000FA3B1

004FB3B1 0019DCEC 0001:000FA3B1 popcapgame1.exe
00521FD7 0019E5F8 0001:00120FD7 popcapgame1.exe
00523470 0019E604 0001:00122470 popcapgame1.exe
76AFF462 0019E694 0001:0013E462 KERNELBASE.dll
77E6BFE5 0019E738 0001:000AAFE5 ntdll.dll
77E38CF6 0019E768 0001:00077CF6 ntdll.dll
77E4B534 0019E834 0001:0008A534 ntdll.dll
77E38DAF 0019ED1C 0001:00077DAF ntdll.dll
69514A68 0019ED34 0001:00063A68 gameoverlayrenderer.dll
004DF362 0019EEB4 0001:000DE362 popcapgame1.exe
0053B740 0019EEF8 0001:0013A740 popcapgame1.exe
00534661 0019F08C 0001:00133661 popcapgame1.exe
768484F3 0019F0B8 0001:000374F3 USER32.dll
76826C40 0019F160 0001:00015C40 USER32.dll
7683DD08 0019F19C 0001:0002CD08 USER32.dll
7439B0AC 0019F1DC 0001:0003A0AC ddraw.dll
768484F3 0019F208 0001:000374F3 USER32.dll
76826C40 0019F2B0 0001:00015C40 USER32.dll
76826820 0019F310 0001:00015820 USER32.dll
7682D169 0019F350 0001:0001C169 USER32.dll
77E38D86 0019F3E0 0001:00077D86 ntdll.dll
76846F30 0019F3E8 0001:00035F30 USER32.dll
69527980 0019F3F8 0001:00076980 gameoverlayrenderer.dll
0052D7EA 0019F42C 0001:0012C7EA popcapgame1.exe
0052A647 0019F440 0001:00129647 popcapgame1.exe
0052A61C 0019F564 0001:0012961C popcapgame1.exe
00431594 0019FEE8 0001:00030594 popcapgame1.exe
0059EEFD 0019FF80 0001:0019DEFD popcapgame1.exe
772238F4 0019FF94 0001:000038F4 KERNEL32.DLL
77E256C3 0019FFDC 0001:000646C3 ntdll.dll
77E2568E 0019FFEC 0001:0006468E ntdll.dll

EAX:00000032 EBX:00000000 ECX:76A7CBCE EDX:00000001 ESI:00000000 EDI:00000000
EIP:004FB3B1 ESP:0019DCC4 EBP:0019DCEC
CS:0023 SS:002B DS:002B ES:002B FS:0053 GS:002B
Flags:00010202

Windows Ver: NT 6.2 Build 9200
DDraw Ver: 10.0.10586.0
DSound Ver: 10.0.10586.0

Product: Peggle
Version: 1.01
Time Loaded: 00:00:05
Fullscreen: Yes
Primary ThreadId: 1914
Times Played: 0
Build Num: 0
Build Date:

[Smoy]

Exactly the same thing here... '~'

[BandiCore]

The first time I start the game it worked, when I closed it using the task manager (there wasn't another way) it didn't work anymore... Could someone help us?

[Burnt_45]

I ran into the same issue. For some reason, this happens if you're running Steam in beta. Taking Steam out of beta fixed it for me..

[Perhaps]

Originally posted by Burnt_45:

I ran into the same issue. For some reason, this happens if you're running Steam in beta. Taking Steam out of beta fixed it for me..

This fixed the issue for me, thank you!

[Burnt_45]

Great! Glad I could help.

[K dude]

same thing happens with other popcap games (plants vs. zombies)

[K dude]

if you can disable full-screen the problem should go away.
you have to modify the registry at least for plants vs. zombies since it wont load. it might be similar in peggle:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SteamPopCap\PlantsVsZombies]
"ScreenMode"=dword:00000000
or
"ScreenMode"=dword:00000001

not sure which is full screen or windowed

[carlos.melo.38]

whats happening? everything else works minus peggle?

[ShellyBean75]

Most PopCap games broke after the update yesterday. The update today didn't fix this issue. Here is a work-around until Steam decides that paying customers are imporant.

To reiterate: This IS NOT a PopCap problem. This is a Steam problem. Only Steam can fix it.

The work-around I've found that works: (thanks to Prophet)

... try to open the game in windowed mode
type "regedit" into the Windows run bar or the search bar that appears when you click on Start in Windows
then open:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SteamPopCap\PlantsVsZombies
double click to open the ScreenMode file and change ScreenMode to 0
exit the registry editor.

This is the ONLY thing I've found that continually works. If you want to play in full screen mode, you will have to open in windowed mode after changing the registry as detailed above, then open full screen mode, play, then change back to windowed mode before exiting. You will have to do this EVERY TIME or the game will crash. If you close the game on full screen mode, the next time you play it, it will crash.

[catalyzt64]

I used the regedit fix and the game loaded enough to click play and then put in my name and then it just spun wheels on a black screen