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oXYnary

Programmer and I have been going back and forth for almost a week trying to figure out why something in development was crashing. It turns out.. its the name of the exe. This system does not like "fatalgs" as a exe name. I attempted renaming other exes to it, and they failed to start as well with a 0x80000003. so something in that name is trying to address a part of the system that's being used.

I attempted a fresh install with same results. So that leaves either the drivers for my hardware, XP Pro SP3, or my chip since this is the only system thus far to encounter it.

I know a friend who knows someone whom is on the windows development team. I really want to try to see if this can be narrowed down to give them more data if this is something OS/hardware config based.

So, those of you with..
xp pro sp3
nvidia 6000 series
nforce 2 motherboard
athlon XP

Any combination's of the above, or hell, it you want, something completely different. Can try renaming a exe.. again ANY exe to "fatalgs" (without quotes of course), and see if it fails to start.

Tulkamir

Works fine for me, my specs are all different from what you listed though so that may not be too much help. :P

XP Home SP3
nVidia 7000 series
Asus p5k-e mobo
Intel Quad Core

Good luck. :P

bearkub

This is a loooooong shot, but it isn't possibly a gs series video card, is it?

A search for "fatalgs.exe" (to see if there was a process out there that is named that...) brought me back to this: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/algs.exe-10289.html so maybe it is being blocked by a system patch as a virus?

I know, I'm reaching. Points for trying?

Jeremy Lindstrom

That's a kickass nick name for someone new to polycount. Hi, I'm FatalGS nevermind, add an a in there and it would be fatalgas.

oXYnary

Hmm you might be on to something bear. I got it to start and error out with a DX message in safe mode. So its gotta be something loading with regular boot. I'm wondering if it could possibly be my AV. Will test on another computer tomorrow with same AV. (Computer Associates Anti-Virus),

bearkub

Please post your results. I am curious to know what caused it.