Medal of Honor: Allied Assault crashes to the desktop

beingthehero · Mar 11, 2012

I'm on a FPS binge lately, yet Allied Assault will not work at all. Battlefield 1942, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, MoH Airborne, and CoD1 and its United Offensive expansion pack all work perfectly. Allied Assault on the other hand simply crashes the moment I click on it.

The screen will go black and simply say "Medal of Honor Allied Assault(TM) has stopped working." I have to use ctrl alt delete to close the error message. I've experimented with all the compatibility modes with no luck. I've installed all the patches as well- again, no luck. Its expansion packs will not work either, and all do the same crash and give the same error message. I've done two clean uninstallations and wiped its presence from the registry with no success. When I access the files, everything is normal. There are no missing paks.

Like I said, all other games from this time and even MoH Airborne work perfectly. Only Allied Assault crashes.

I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

AstaLaVista · Mar 11, 2012

I did played Allied Assault a couple of months ago with no problems... I was on Ultimate 64 bit but I doubt it makes a difference?

Perhaps it is time to uninstall/install a fresh version of your video and audio drivers... if only to make sure that you have crossed all dots?

Sorry, can't help you more!

Squid · Mar 11, 2012

Hello beingthehero,
Have you tried to disable desktop composition under compatibility?

I see you have tried running the game in all of the compatiblity modes. You could maybe try re-installing although this time install as admin/compatibility SP3.

Also, maybe mess around with the config settings. I think it's in MOHAA/main/config

sjc1138 · Mar 11, 2012

I have exactly the same OS and game as you. Have you:
Done all windows updates?
Run it in compatibility mode?
Patched the game to the latest version?
Run it as an administrator?
Try these. The game can be patched in the multiplayer menu if you can't find online downloads.

Edit: Also, please fill in your system specs so we may help you better.

OldMX · Mar 13, 2012

If you have an AMD/ATI based videocard, you'll need an old version of the opengl driver and put it into the game folder.

sjc1138 · Mar 13, 2012

OldMX said:
If you have an AMD/ATI based videocard, you'll need an old version of the opengl driver and put it into the game folder.

I don't think this is the problem- I had an ATI card and it worked fine. It still works with my NVidia.

leagueonmymind · Mar 14, 2012

It is kind of error caused by drive missing or game file corrupt. How about reinstalling it?

sjc1138 · Mar 14, 2012

leagueonmymind said:
It is kind of error caused by drive missing or game file corrupt. How about reinstalling it?

If you haven't already tried this, then do, but otherwise all signs point to a faulty disc. That wouldn't be surprising, it is an old game. You can pick up a copy for about £2.99 new on Amazon.

Also, please fill in your system spec. Like I said, I have exactly the same OS and Windows spec as you, so it must be your copy. I even made a gameplay video on youtube of it quite recently here.

beingthehero · Apr 3, 2012

Sorry about the gross delay in replying. The game still crashes to the desktop. I don't think it's the disk; the Spearhead and Breakthrough expansion packs also crash to the desktop. Same thing happened when I downloaded the single player demo. Call of Duty 2 and MoH Airborne run perfectly and smoothly, yet Allied Assault just won't work.

Here are my specs:

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack (7601.win7sp1_gdr.111118-2330)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Inspiron N5110
BIOS: BIOS Date: 07/18/11 15:25:00 Ver: 04.06.04
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2330M CPU @ 2.20GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4004MB RAM
Page File: 2731MB used, 5273MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: None
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

I've already tried uninstalling/reinstalling multiple times, even deleting the registry keys. Same crash always happens. Each time I installed it, all the files looked to be in order.

M1GU31 · Apr 4, 2012

Do you have a another pc that can possibly be running windows xp and try installing it and running it on that and see what happens. If it's the same thing then it's the disk and you then need a new disk. Just saying to try it on xp because it could be that it's not compatible or true proof that it is in deed a corrupted disk. Well that's if you have xp but if you don't then my other thought is that the cd is no good anymore and you need a new one or it's not compatible with win 7 x64.

beingthehero · Apr 4, 2012

It works perfectly fine on an older computer that has XP on it, so it's not the disk.

cyclic · Apr 4, 2012

Those all work fine on my machine. Have you looked in the error log to see if there is a specific cause ?

beingthehero · Apr 4, 2012

Not yet. How do I check the error log?

cyclic · Apr 4, 2012

From the desktop, right click the Computer icon and select Manage from the dropdown menu.
The management console should arrive, there are icons in the left pane, one is Event viewer,
left click the icon, after a short wait the Summary of Admin events will arrive.
You will see the following ,critical; error; warning with a clickable + sign next to it. Now look at the right of the box there are columns to indicate when the event happened. You don't need to read them all, look for a time when you know the problem occured, say in the last hour, or several times in the previous day, go back to the left and click to expand a log to see what happened, usually there will be an error number and a faulting program or module name.

Post a snip of this back here and I'll see what we can do.

beingthehero · Apr 5, 2012

Faulting application name: MOHAA.exe, version: 1.2.1.280, time stamp: 0x73655965
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x36393034
Faulting process id: 0x2770
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd12ee0604da6a
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\MOHAA\MOHAA.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 462da735-7ee1-11e1-9d3c-ac7289a7046c

System

- Provider

[ Name] Application Error

- EventID 1000

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 100

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2012-04-05T05:36:21.000000000Z

EventRecordID 5440

Channel Application

Computer Mike-PC

Security
- EventData

MOHAA.exe

1.2.1.280

73655965

unknown

0.0.0.0

00000000

c0000005

36393034

2770

01cd12ee0604da6a

C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\MOHAA\MOHAA.exe

unknown

462da735-7ee1-11e1-9d3c-ac7289a7046c

cyclic · Apr 5, 2012

This is quite common and is called an access violation and it's critical in so far as the application in not allowed executable memory space.
usually the most frequent cause is a Ram problem, so you should test your memory first.
Also there can be a problem with DEP on older .exe's Data Execution Prevention is both a hard and software method of preventing programs running if needed.
You can stop it from running by editing the boot.ini file, but this should be a last measure, not a first.

M0sh3r · Jun 9, 2012

beingthehero said:
I'm on a FPS binge lately, yet Allied Assault will not work at all. Battlefield 1942, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, MoH Airborne, and CoD1 and its United Offensive expansion pack all work perfectly. Allied Assault on the other hand simply crashes the moment I click on it.

The screen will go black and simply say "Medal of Honor Allied Assault(TM) has stopped working." I have to use ctrl alt delete to close the error message. I've experimented with all the compatibility modes with no luck. I've installed all the patches as well- again, no luck. Its expansion packs will not work either, and all do the same crash and give the same error message. I've done two clean uninstallations and wiped its presence from the registry with no success. When I access the files, everything is normal. There are no missing paks.

Like I said, all other games from this time and even MoH Airborne work perfectly. Only Allied Assault crashes.

I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

I had exact same issue with MOHAA. I have same OS. Tried all solutions above including disabling DEP for MOHAA in Performance options in advanced tab of system properties, but no difference.

Solution was my Nvidia Graphics driver, downloaded latest from Nvidia site Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers and installed.

I already had MOHAA installed but had not played in couple of months. It was working beforehand, eventually remembered windows action centre had asked me to download new nvidia drivers, these drivers caused issue and are different from manual download. Will ignore action centre in future.

Hope this helps somebody.

Purecountry42 · Jun 16, 2012

It Could Be Your Video Card....

beingthehero said:
I'm on a FPS binge lately, yet Allied Assault will not work at all. Battlefield 1942, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, MoH Airborne, and CoD1 and its United Offensive expansion pack all work perfectly. Allied Assault on the other hand simply crashes the moment I click on it.

The screen will go black and simply say "Medal of Honor Allied Assault(TM) has stopped working." I have to use ctrl alt delete to close the error message. I've experimented with all the compatibility modes with no luck. I've installed all the patches as well- again, no luck. Its expansion packs will not work either, and all do the same crash and give the same error message. I've done two clean uninstallations and wiped its presence from the registry with no success. When I access the files, everything is normal. There are no missing paks.

Like I said, all other games from this time and even MoH Airborne work perfectly. Only Allied Assault crashes.

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Thaniks For Your Time And I Hope That I Have Helped Since Toshiba Can't Be Counted On For That Kind Of Stuff. In My Way Of Thinking......If You Are Making A New Product (Whatever It Is) It Should Be To Improve What You Already Have...Not Make Things Worse. If An OLDER Computer Could Do Things That A NEWER Computer Can't......Something Is Wrong With The Product And Possibly Even The Company!!!!

AngryPossum · Jul 31, 2012

Hey all,

I have found an answer to the problem, may not work with everyone, but generally people who are playing on a laptop.

Switchable graphics controllers.

Basically, if you have switchable graphics, as many laptops nowerdays do to save battery power, the system will run using your CPU, and when you play a game or something that requires more than standard graphics, it switches to GPU on startup of that game/program.

I stumbled across this after running the configure.exe files for all 3 MOHAA games, and it was telling me that I will be running the game in Intel HD graphics, but I ran a quick check through systemrequirementslab dot com, and it said that I couldn't run it due to the fact I had Intel HD graphics, although it was reading 4gb vRAM. Intel HD with 4gig vram? that would be amazing, but probably not in our lifetimes. Truth is, it was picking up the fact I have a Radeon HD 6633M wacked in my laptop but the info was coming through the cpu. In comes the Catalyst controller!

Open your catalyst controller (or equivalent graphics controller) and change the switchable graphics to manual (this willl make your screen go funny, but don't worry), click on the Power option, switchable graphics, select high performance GPU, funny screen again, run configure.exe again on the MOHAA games you have installed, and voila, Medal of Honor in all its glory!

I hope this helps whoever is still looking for answers! And I am sure there will be an option for this for nVidia Switchable graphics systems

Happy gaming!

EDIT: Still needs to be run in XP sp2 or 3 compatability mode, and don't worry about the desktop dooburywhatsit checkbox

python134r · Aug 3, 2012

Would that be with the current cpu's with graphics native to them on their die?

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