Crashes on Boot in Vista-32 (Threatfire Stops World of Goo!)

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Crashes on Boot in Vista-32 (Threatfire Stops World of Goo!)sonicmj103/06/2009 - 21:56

I recently purchased World of Goo during Steam's $5 sale, but I'm having great difficulty starting the game. Whenever I launch it (even with admin rights), the game goes to a black screen, then freezes. Moving my mouse boots it out to a "Windows is checking for problems" screen, and the program is shut down.

One time, I minimized the window while the program was in the black-screen state, and there was a "Fatal Error" window opened by World of Goo. It contained the following message:

Exception: Access Violation (code 0xc0000005) at address 004898C3 in thread 984
Module: WorldOfGoo.exe
Logical Address: 0001:000888C3

0012EF3C 004898C3 0001:000888C3 WorldOfGoo.exe
Params: 00170392 00000200 00000000 012C0190

StackWalk failed (error 299)

EAX:00000000 EBX:00000000 ECX:0061AE48 EDX:0049B220 ESI:00000000 EDI:00000200
EIP:004898C3 ESP:0012EE74  EBP:0012EF3C
CS:001B SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000
Flags:00210202

Windows Ver: NT 6.0 Service Pack 1 Build 6001

I remember having similar issues with the demo, and I'm not sure how they were resolved. I think that it randomly decided to work temporarily one day.

Can anyone help me out?

EDIT: Problem solved! I was made aware that Threatfire and World of Goo cannot peacefully co-exist. Options are:

- Uninstalling Threatfire
- Shutting Threatfire down while playing World of Goo
  - In order to shut down ThreatFire, you must hold ctrl and
right-click on the tray icon, selecting "exit." then, in a run command,
type "net stop threatfire" and this will shut down ThreatFire, instead of
having to uninstall."
- Making World of Goo an exception in Threatfire's Advanced Controls window.
  - This won't work if World of Goo was purchased through Steam.


Last modified Fri, 03/06/2009 - 22:59 by sonicmj1