Cannot Start Game

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Okay I bought and downloaded sins of the solar empire expansion rebellion yesterday on steam.  Today as I started the game it continually intializies gives me the "preparing to launch sins of s solar empire rebellion" message box which then that disappears after a few seconds.  However the game does not start afterwards.  Nothing not even a black screen, a launcher or a loading screen is seen.  I ran a cache integrity check and everything is fine.   I tried an uninstall and reinstall but that did not work.  Any suggestions ideas or help will be appreciated

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

i have the sames issues, yesterday work fine, but today, i have the loading screen, and BOOM crashed. I have all my drives updated, try to re-dowload SOS..

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Nope nothing on the common ailments list helped.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I have this same problem.. seems there isn't much to help on this issue.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting darkomegared, reply 6
i have send an email to stardock, not even a answer :/
End of darkomegared's quote
If you didn't get an autoreply the mail might have gottent eaten by the internet gods.  

Try here: https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

So I often have issues with steam....  Steam crashes 75% of the time.  I am going to uninstall and reinstall it but I just want to play my game.  I don't like steam.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Damn .. I have had the same problem ever since I bought it a while ago. Played different stuff and hoped it would be fixed. :x .. just tried the same thing again. Funnily enough steam lists me as having played the game for 89 minutes in total.

Edit: I do not have Rebellion, just the Trinity expansion. Same thing though :x

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Did any of you purchase the discounted upgrade version or the full download?  When I went to checkout on Stardock it gave me the option to get $10 off if I was a registered owner of the previous game versions.  Wondering if theres a problem with that version or if the previous versions need to be present in order to work.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

The problem is more than likely NVidia driver related.  Here is the content of the mini dump file I receive.

Ill try updating drivers and see if that corrects the problem.

 

 

FAULTING_IP:
nvd3d9wrap!CheckDXGIModule+124a
73ec288a 8b08 mov ecx,dword ptr [eax]

EXCEPTION_RECORD: ffffffff -- (.exr 0xffffffffffffffff)
ExceptionAddress: 73ec288a (nvd3d9wrap!CheckDXGIModule+0x0000124a)
ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation)
ExceptionFlags: 00000000
NumberParameters: 2
Parameter[0]: 00000000
Parameter[1]: 00000000
Attempt to read from address 00000000

PROCESS_NAME: Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion.exe

ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%08lx referenced memory at 0x%08lx. The memory could not be %s.

EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%08lx referenced memory at 0x%08lx. The memory could not be %s.

EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 00000000

EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: 00000000

READ_ADDRESS: 00000000

FOLLOWUP_IP:
nvd3d9wrap!CheckDXGIModule+124a
73ec288a 8b08 mov ecx,dword ptr [eax]

MOD_LIST: <ANALYSIS/>

APPLICATION_VERIFIER_FLAGS: 0

CHKIMG_EXTENSION: !chkimg -lo 50 -d !nvd3d9wrap
73ec2880-73ec2884 5 bytes - nvd3d9wrap!CheckDXGIModule+1240
[ 55 8b ec 56 8b:e9 07 e1 dd 01 ]
5 errors : !nvd3d9wrap (73ec2880-73ec2884)

FAULTING_THREAD: 00000790

BUGCHECK_STR: APPLICATION_FAULT_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_NULL_POINTER_READ_LARGE

PRIMARY_PROBLEM_CLASS: MEMORY_CORRUPTION_LARGE

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: MEMORY_CORRUPTION_LARGE

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 77eec49c to 73ec288a

STACK_TEXT:
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
0018fbcc 77eec49c 0e5c3d00 0e5c0d04 0e5c3d00 nvd3d9wrap!CheckDXGIModule+0x124a
0018fbe8 6d19ab6a 0e5c3d00 0e5c0d20 0e5c3d04 GameOverlayRenderer!OverlayHookD3D3+0x56ac
0018fbf8 6d1958f0 073afaf8 073afaf0 0018fcc4 d3d9!CBaseObject::ReleaseImpl+0x5c
0018fc08 00410bcd 0e5c0d20 0e5c0d20 004117cc d3d9!CSurface::Release+0x38
0018fd10 00410dbd 007b1158 0040594e 00050376 Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire_Rebellion+0x10bcd
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire_Rebellion+0x10dbd


STACK_COMMAND: ~0s; .ecxr ; kb

SYMBOL_NAME: memory_corruption!nvd3d9wrap

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: memory_corruption

IMAGE_NAME: memory_corruption

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: MEMORY_CORRUPTION_LARGE_c0000005_memory_corruption!nvd3d9wrap

BUCKET_ID: APPLICATION_FAULT_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_NULL_POINTER_READ_LARGE_memory_corruption!nvd3d9wrap

 

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

Hi, I had a black screen on startup. When I enabled Nvidia 3D the game started OK. Looks like 3D must be enabled even though my monitor does not support 3D.