Crashing to desktop

[Bluemeanie]

Anyone else having problems ctd'ing? I know it can be a lot of things, but this started Tuesday, usually happens when gating, but I had it a few times last night when I wasn't gating. And last night was worse than Tuesday. I also had one this morning when logging off, probably related, but this gave me an error code! Don't want to spend a bunch of time looking into things if I'm not the only one with the issue.

 

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          4/6/2017 11:50:40 AM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Bill-PC
Description:
Faulting application name: Net7Proxy.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x55d10d1c
Faulting module name: AcXtrnal.DLL, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bd98a
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x0000788f
Faulting process id: 0x5a4
Faulting application start time: 0x01d2aee3f221026a
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Net-7\bin\Net7Proxy.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\AppPatch\AcXtrnal.DLL
Report Id: c862ee53-1ae0-11e7-b983-bc5ff436346f
 

[Zackman [LDEV]]

On 6.4.2017 at 6:08 PM, Bluemeanie said:

AcXtrnal.DLL

 

Virus, Trojan, Hijack, Malware?

 

The correct name is (upper/lowercase):

AcXtrnal.dll

Size: 211.968 Bytes)

 

The "DLL" (all uppercase) rings an alarmbell.

 

[Kyp [LDEV]]

Assuming it is the real one, disable compatibility settings on the net7proxy.exe and see if you see the same thing. This is used for app compatibility. The .DLL being uppercase *could* be the way they entered the variables that receive the file names for an event log, but like Zack says it could potentially be a piece of malware. A full/thorough scan of your system might be a good idea.

[Bluemeanie]

Looking back in the logs, this has been happening intermittently for a long time. Native os is Win 7 64 bit, I run the game in compat mode for Win XP SP 3. I didn't think it would run unless it was in compat mode, guess I'll try and see what happens. I do check regularly for virus's malware etc, The file name in the folder is lower case and the right length, and there is another in AppPatch64 that's different. Any doubt, here's the locations (note the .old stuff shouldn't make any difference, I'm just too lazy to delete that folder).

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users>cd\

C:\>dir AcXtrnal.dll  /s /p
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 0CED-8EA0

 Directory of C:\Windows\AppPatch

07/13/2009  09:14 PM           211,968 AcXtrnal.dll
               1 File(s)        211,968 bytes

 Directory of C:\Windows\AppPatch\AppPatch64

07/13/2009  09:40 PM           135,168 AcXtrnal.dll
               1 File(s)        135,168 bytes

 Directory of C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-a..ence-mitigations-c5_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_6a4c3ec108e85b6a

07/13/2009  09:40 PM           135,168 AcXtrnal.dll
               1 File(s)        135,168 bytes

 Directory of C:\Windows\winsxs\wow64_microsoft-windows-a..ence-mitigations-c5_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_74a0e9133d491d65

07/13/2009  09:14 PM           211,968 AcXtrnal.dll
               1 File(s)        211,968 bytes
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 Directory of C:\Windows.old\Windows\AppPatch

04/14/2008  06:41 AM           116,224 AcXtrnal.dll
               1 File(s)        116,224 bytes

 Directory of C:\Windows.old\Windows\system32\dllcache

04/14/2008  06:41 AM           116,224 acxtrnal.dll
               1 File(s)        116,224 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
               6 File(s)        926,720 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  40,205,828,096 bytes free

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