dllhost.exe crash / com surrogate

[mojario]

Hi there,
First off I'm loving windows 7, except for one problem.

Whenever I do certain things for example click personalise the desktop / click properties of my computer / using the control panel.. and possibly others.

its pops up saying:

Runtime Error!

Program: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\DllHost.exe

- upon clicking ok to this

It then gives me a message about COM Surrogate has stopped working.

I can get past them both my clicking ok / cancel twice.
buts its become quite annoying..

Anyone come across this error? or better yet a fix?

btw I'm running 64bit build 6801

 

[mansrm81]

Nope haven't had it in 32bit

 

[mdoyle]

I'm getting this error also in x64 6801.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

 

[mojario]

mdoyle, have you installed adobe cs3 collection or photoshop or anything like that?
i believe that causes the problem.

 

[Kryptonit3]

ive heard photoshop and nero have caused that error in quite a few forums. both those apps use the .net framework, dont know if that makes a diff

 

[mdoyle]

That must be it. I have CS3 installed on it. I'll uninstall and see how that helps.

 

[Kryptonit3]

I have CS3 Extended installed on 6956 32bit and havent had any probs, same with 6801 32bit

 

[Kryptonit3]

Wait, are you installing it on Server 2008? ive heard people trying it, hasnt turned out too well, you might have some success installing it on XP or Vista, and copy the folder to your server install

 

[mdoyle]

Nope, it was on the 6801 x64.

I do have it installed on one of my Server 2008 x64, and it doesn't have any issues at all.

 

[Kryptonit3]

hmm, i have yet to embrace the 64bit OS's, ive only installed it on 32bit OS's and havent had any problems

 

[Kryptonit3]

When you run Photoshop CS3 on a computer with a 64-bit processor (such as a, Intel Xeon processor with EM64T, AMD Athlon 64, or Opteron processor) running a 64-bit version of the operating system (Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or Windows Vista 64-bit) and with 4 GB or more of RAM, Photoshop will use 3 GB for it's image data. You can see the actual amount of RAM Photoshop can use in the Let Photoshop Use number when you set the Let Photoshop Use slider in the Performance preference to 100%. The RAM above the 100% used by Photoshop, which is from approximately 3 GB to 3.7 GB, can be used directly by Photoshop plug-ins (some plug-ins need large chunks of contiguous RAM), filters, or actions. If you have more than 4 GB (to 6 GB), then the RAM above 4 GB is used by the operating system as a cache for the Photoshop scratch disk data. Data that previously was written directly to the hard disk by Photoshop is now cached in this high RAM before being written to the hard disk by the operating system. If you are working with files large enough to take advantage of these extra 2 GB of RAM, the RAM cache can speed performance of Photoshop. Additionally, in Windows Vista 64-bit, processing very large images is much faster if your computer has large amounts of RAM (6-8 GB).

how much RAM u got?

 

[mdoyle]

You don't know what you're missing when you can actually utilize large amounts of memory

 

[mdoyle]

In this particular build, only 4 GBs.

 

[Kryptonit3]

You don't know what you're missing when you can actually utilize large amounts of memory

HOLY FUXX, what could u possibly use that much Ram for? My MoBo only Supports up to 4GB i think

What r ur full sys specs?

post ur System Info, im curious

 

[mdoyle]

Haha... that's my HP DL580 G5 at work. It runs 10 Virtual Servers, ranging from Exchange front ends, SharePoint, Terminal Services, and a GUI app for a Unix server, plus a few other things. What's more exciting, is the fact that I still have 30 available DIMMs on my motherboard for more memory

Anyway's, ill have to hook my 6801 build computer back up and uninstall CS3 and see if that is the issue.

I might just wait for the download on 6956 to finish first though.

 

[Kryptonit3]

i didnt know theyy had the 64bit of 6956

 

[mdoyle]

As far as I know they don't. But since this is just for play/testing it doesn't really matter if its 32 or 64 to me.

 

[Kryptonit3]

ooh

 

[mdoyle]

Yep. Got rid of CS3 and the error is gone.

 

[d3th]

I just installed 6801 x64, I too am getting the error 2x, bleh, I uninstalled nero 8, and CS4.

Update: I installed Nero v.9.0.9.4b, no more errors. Then I re-installed CS4, but only chose photoshop (64 and 32 bit versions) and nothing else from the suite. I'm not getting the error anymore, but photoshop now seems to hang on load.

I did also install K-Lite Codec Pack 64-bit, prior to uninstalling, as on another site I read the error may also be related to divx. http://www.codecguide.com/klcp_64bit.htm

J