rustix Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 So I decided to play a couple of old games (namely DMC 3 and NFS: Porsche Unleashed) but before I could actually start playing the Visual Studio Just-In-Time Debugger pops up and hence I can't continue any further. I played DMC3 a couple of months (over 6 months actually) back and it worked fine. But I uninstalled it since I didn't have a gamepad. The main difference between then and now is the installation of MS Visual Studio .net 2008. When I tried DMC 3 on my desktop (which does not have .net installed) it worked fine. Does any one know of a solution for this? N.B. - In the case of DMC3 the debugger pops up even before a splash screen whereas in the NFS: Porsche Unleashed it pops up after the intro video oh and i'm using Windows XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r41n Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 Hey :) I can't remember the last time i played on a system that didn't have VS installed, almost 10 years i guess (i only play on my main rig and my laptop). Never noticed any issues, the only difference is that if you have VS installed and your game crashes you don't get the classic application error dialog, but instead the VS JIT debugger will pop in. It doesn't matter when the JIT debugger shows up, before or after the splash screen, as long as you started the game. In both cases the game could have crashed for a reason or another. Mind you, i can't be sure VS has nothing to do with those games failing, but i never had any issues of this kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustix Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 oh ok.. i guess there could be something wrong with my operating system as well couldn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r41n Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 oh ok.. i guess there could be something wrong with my operating system as well couldn't it? Well in over 6 months there can happen a lot. Did you try to do a fresh install of those games? I doubt that it will help much, but it's worth a try i guess, since the only other idea that crosses my mind is to format your drive and do a fresh windows install. Sorry that i can't help you in any particular way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustix Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 actually these were all fresh installs.. and i did try reinstalling them as well :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrack Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Have you got SP3? Is it possible that some driver change or something in SP3 has changed and that is causing the game to crash and since VS.NET like to think that it is the default debugger, it jumps in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustix Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 nope.. i'm using SP2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 It shouldn't cause problems......I have had it installed since VS 2008 was released and I haven't had any game crashes due to it (though I haven't played the games you specifically mentioned). One way to test if you have run out of ideas would be to reinstall your OS, install drivers/updates, then install the games......now after every major program you install, reboot and try playing the games. This should yet you figure out what program specifically is causing the problems, and might lead you to different fixes to try (depending on what specifically is causing the problems). If you uninstall VS 2008, does the problem go away or do the games still crash (just without the VS debugger)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustix Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 well i didn't uninstall VS cuz it does take quite a while to install it.. i guess i'll try repairing windows and if that doesn't work uninstall VS and check, and if that fails as well try re-installing windows.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordkanin Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 The 'debugger' screen you're getting is just because when Visual Studio is installed, it gives Windows something to do to actually look at the problem, and replaces the standard crash dialog. It shouldn't impact what leads up to the crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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