DLL woes

[The_Godslayer]

New computer, new problems. directplay8.dll keeps dying for no particular reason, so I'd like to know if anyone has a tried and true fix for it, or if not if anyone has a good troubleshooting path for me to take.

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"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"

[Groshyr]

Have you enabled Legacy Components > DirectPlay in Programs & Features?

[The_Godslayer]

Yes, DirectPlay is on in programs and features.

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I'll do something about my superiority complex when I cease to be superior.

"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"

[Groshyr]

Try to turn it off, restart, turn DirectPlay on. Perhaps it will help. Otherwise try this in PowerShell: Get-WindowsOptionalFeature - online -FeatureName "DirectPlay" | Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -all

[Kauket]

im assuming you already tried reinstalling graphics drivers and have updated them

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[The_Godslayer]

im assuming you already tried reinstalling graphics drivers and have updated them

Yeee, AMD decided to do the funny and try and run on nvidia drivers when I moved my hard drive, everything is updated and reinstalled

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I'll do something about my superiority complex when I cease to be superior.

"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"

[Aaron_Ward]

Try to turn it off, restart, turn DirectPlay on. Perhaps it will help. Otherwise try this in PowerShell: Get-WindowsOptionalFeature - online -FeatureName "DirectPlay" | Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -all

Hello, Groshyr.
I know this is an old thread, but I must say it here.

So, today DSLauncher want that I push the "Patch Game" button, instead of "Launch Game".
After the patch completed, - of cource, - I been able to push the "Launch Game" button.

Game main menu window - game started fine (as usual).
I press "Multiplayer" -> Choose Discovery RP 24/7 (in the list) -> push "Connect" -> Loading for a bit of a second.

AND here it is:
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Fatal Crash. Unknown Error Code

Unhandled Exception!
-- Important Information --
Source: directplay8.dll
Re|ExpAddr: 0x050851
ExpCode: 0x80000003
ExpFlags: 0
ExpAddress: 0x5020851
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I try to search around here and find this old thread.
I read your answers, Groshyr. Thanks.
SO...

I disable Legacy Components > DirectPlay in Programs & Features.
Restart PC.
After that I enabled it again (or turn it on).
Restart PC.

Try how it's work : - the result is the same. on the same step (choose the server - press "Connect" - Crash while loading).
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So I PowerShell'ing it, like you wrote in one of your answers.

But I must say that your command line don't wanna work (for me, at least), it say that commands not correct (something like that).
I don't know much about. So I found some video, where some man show how to do this commands in the PowerShell.
His line looks like this :
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -FeatureName DirectPlay -All

I put this in "Run as Administrator" mode, in this PowerShell.
Restart PC - try out - result is the same (fatal error on exact same step).

I'm sorry for "interesting story with many words", but I want to describe all the steps here.
So now I don't know what to do now. Thank you for attention.

[Alex.]

A few people have reported issues at directplay8.dll+0x50851 in the last few minutes since the patch, it'll get looked into but we don't have a solution yet.

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[Culbrelai]

Yeah this patch broke my game, same issue as Aaron with the same error code. Rip.

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[Lusitano]

Try to turn it off, restart, turn DirectPlay on. Perhaps it will help. Otherwise try this in PowerShell: Get-WindowsOptionalFeature - online -FeatureName "DirectPlay" | Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -all

Hello, Groshyr.
I know this is an old thread, but I must say it here.

So, today DSLauncher want that I push the "Patch Game" button, instead of "Launch Game".
After the patch completed, - of cource, - I been able to push the "Launch Game" button.

Game main menu window - game started fine (as usual).
I press "Multiplayer" -> Choose Discovery RP 24/7 (in the list) -> push "Connect" -> Loading for a bit of a second.

AND here it is:
__________________________
Fatal Crash. Unknown Error Code

Unhandled Exception!
-- Important Information --
Source: directplay8.dll
Re|ExpAddr: 0x050851
ExpCode: 0x80000003
ExpFlags: 0
ExpAddress: 0x5020851
__________________________

I try to search around here and find this old thread.
I read your answers, Groshyr. Thanks.
SO...

I disable Legacy Components > DirectPlay in Programs & Features.
Restart PC.
After that I enabled it again (or turn it on).
Restart PC.

Try how it's work : - the result is the same. on the same step (choose the server - press "Connect" - Crash while loading).
====

So I PowerShell'ing it, like you wrote in one of your answers.

But I must say that your command line don't wanna work (for me, at least), it say that commands not correct (something like that).
I don't know much about. So I found some video, where some man show how to do this commands in the PowerShell.
His line looks like this :
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -FeatureName DirectPlay -All

I put this in "Run as Administrator" mode, in this PowerShell.
Restart PC - try out - result is the same (fatal error on exact same step).

I'm sorry for "interesting story with many words", but I want to describe all the steps here.
So now I don't know what to do now. Thank you for attention.

me too