I Have a Crashing Issue With an Old Game - Any Help Appreciated

[gamerguy319]

Hello, I have this old game that was made in the early 2000's known as Hover Ace. Every time i press ok in a certain dialogue box the game will freeze and crash. Specifically it is the dialogue box saying i have reached tech level 3. Does anybody know how to fix this?

 

[techgeek]

What OS are you running? You should be able to run the game in compatibility mode. Find the executable (.exe) and right click on it and select Properties. In the Properties window select the Compatibility tab. From there check the box for Run this program in Compatibility mode for: , then select Windows 98.

 

[gamerguy319]

i am running it in widows 7 hp 64bit and i have tried anything from 2000 to all of the xp's which made no difference

 

[techgeek]

My other guess is that some file that the game is writing to is either write protected, or for whatever reason the account doesn't have permission to write to. I went through a similar problem with Crysis in Windows 7. Every time I tried to change my graphics setting the game crashed to the desktop.

I would try going into the game directory and make sure you have full permissions on all the files. Also check to be sure they aren't write protected.

 

[gamerguy319]

ok i will do that and i will get back to you on that

 

[gamerguy319]

sadly it did not work but here is the crash report
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: HoverAce.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 3d65eb60
Fault Module Name: StackHash_f1f4
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 5c736563
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: f1f4
Additional Information 2: f1f4a9f1caf7e7c52418e1c262f571c7
Additional Information 3: 5968
Additional Information 4: 5968f6116e9c8960aecdbe068e698ed3