Issue running a game

[grimreeper132]

I want to run a game, Settlers Herriate of Kings, on windows 10, but when ever I try to run it, it crashes almost immediately and makes a dmp file. I have opened it up and it says this

 

How do I fix this, as I would quite like to play the game

 

(I am currently updating all my drivers it is taking a bit of time, as I have more than just my graphics driver to update)

 

Updated drivers, it didn't help

[grimreeper132]

2 hours ago, SnowWolf370 said:

"The thread tried to read from or write ( bla bla ) does not have appropriate access."

 

It sounds like the game is trying to do something that requires Admin rights on the computer, and since the game does not have them. It outright crashes.

 

Try this..

 

Go to D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Settlers Heritage of Kings\bin and find the SetttlersHoK.exe

 

Right click on that .exe file and go to the Compatibility tab.

 

There click on the check box besides Run this program as an administrator  or words to that effect, click the Apply button followed by Ok.

 

Try starting the game from Steam again, this time Windows might give you the "Yes" "No" screen about a program attempting to do changes to the computer etc. Click yes.

If the game still crashes, or for some reason Windows does not prompt this window.

 

Try clicking directly on the .exe file again to start the game.

 

If this does not work, try running the game in a mode that simulates using an older version of Windows, you can find those settings in the Compatibility tab where you changed the admin rights earlier.

Ive ran it as admin doesnt help. And compatibility mode is not helping for me either

[grimreeper132]

1 hour ago, SnowWolf370 said:

 

Hmm. I'm not sure what to suggest then other than trying to Google the problem. Or if anyone else has a good idea.

 

Or actually.. Maybe because this game is quite old, it's having problems running on numerous cores than the modern CPU has..

 

I know this is the case with some older games, for example SimCity 4.

 

Run the game, then go to Task Manager.. CTRL+ALT+Delete by default.

 

Right click on SetttlersHoK.exe under the Processes tab.

 

Select the Go to Details, it will move to you a new SetttlersHoK.exe under the Details tab. Right click on that exe and select Set Affinity.

 

Then make sure only CPU 0 is checked off. Uncheck all the others, now the game will only run at 1 CPU core. Does this solve the crashing issue?

doesn't seam to be helping, I have set it to only run on 1 CPU core, but it reverts after it crashes, and continues to crash, with the same error in the dump file. I have had this game running on win 7, on quad cores etc. before as well so yea. It just seams to not wanna work on windows 10 now (I think I had it running at one point but a windows update broke it (could be wrong there mind as it was a while ago))

[grimreeper132]

10 minutes ago, SnowWolf370 said:

I'm afraid I'm out of idea's, but it's normal for the setting to revert after a game crash. It's something you need to manually set each time you run something. But since that didn't work, I'm out of idea's..

I have found a some what possibly dodgy "fix" so I will try that 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVgjft8L8o

 

EDIT- The somewhat dodgy "fix works

[grimreeper132]

Just now, SnowWolf370 said:

 

So it's all running good now?

Think so. Haven't fully tested it yet, but will be shortly. Thanks

[grimreeper132]

Just now, SnowWolf370 said:

Thank yourself, but yeah.. Playing older games on Windows 10 requires a lot of... Creative fixes, for example getting the Sims 1 to run on Windows 10 can be a full time job, but once you get the fix going. It runs all good.

and yea compatability mode is a load of bullshit which does not work in any way