CTD code: c0000005 GeForce GTX 460M on ASUS G73Sw

I am suffering a crash to desktop while playing a modded version of the "Temple of Elemental Evil" game published by Atari. The nature of the crash and the details of the error report lead me and others to believe that this CTD is a result of my NVIDIA display settings, specifically that "Scaling" is turned on during video processing. I have manually updated my NVIDIA drivers to 332.21.

The error report is as follows:

The "Circle of 8 Mod" is a famous mod for the Atari game "Temple of Elemental Evil" published in 2004. The Co8 mod team recently released version 8.0, the final version of the mod.

In short, I have the mod and its game launcher app installed exactly as the modders specify. When run in Windows XP compatibility mode and Run as Administrator, the launcher will boot the game fine, and the opening menus are functioning (including character generation and party setup). But when I click the "Begin Adventure" button--which launches a short cinematic that takes a couple minutes before the game actually begins--the game crashes to desktop.

The administrator at the Co8 forums suspects that this is a "scaling" issue and based on this idea I have tried to turn my NVIDIA card settings for video playback to "No scaling," however, I may not have actually been successful in doing this.

My control panel in Win 7 looks like this:



This was the only thing I could find in this NVIDIA control panel app that seems to regulate "scaling" and it seems to be changing desktop scaling, not video playback scaling.

The Co8 forum administrator who has been trying to help me runs an older XP rig, and his NVIDIA control panel looks like this:



It seems pretty clear that with his older control panel, you can turn scaling OFF, but my newer Win 7 control panel is less clear on this.

I hope that this is a simple matter of changing settings somewhere to allow the game to run. Appreciate any help or guidance on trying to resolve this.

 

Thanks Admin.

Following those instructions, I get as far as "de-select everything except "Debugging Tools for Windows ", click Next and click Next again to start installation" and hit a snag.

The installation of the SDK fails and the error log is quite long. Can post the whole thing if that might help. The first mention of "fail" in the log is this:

etc., etc.

I'd guess that SDK is already installed?

Again thanks for your help.

As far as the dump, yes this machine was already setup to write dump files to %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP I'll see if I can find that file.

Okay, when I put that file path into the run menu on the bottom left, and try to open the file in notepad it says access denied.

 

Oh dear. I seem to have made things worse for myself.

When I noticed that I did not have access to some of those files, I attempted to change my permissions and have hidden files shown and such. Unfortunately I seem to have caused some folders that I had on my desktop to become 'shadow' documents or something.

Luckily I can still open documents that I had in those folders with the recent documents function on the applications.