Can't launch PTE 4.48 or 5.0 - GPE in V128IID.DRV

[andrew.sier]

Hi,

I am trying to run PTE on my Dad's PC. I've tried v4.48 and also v5.00 (beta 3). In both cases, when I try to launch PTE I get this error message:

APR caused a general protection fault

in module V128IID.DRV at 0002:00009492.

Registers:

EAX=000c8400 CS=0357 EIP=00009492 EFLGS=00000282

EBX=00000007 SS=3747 ESP=0000899c EBP=000089f2

ECX=00000002 DS=0377 ESI=00000080 FS=20bf

EDX=00000010 ES=20bf EDI=d604ce5c GS=47df

Bytes at CS:EIP:

f3 67 65 a4 66 03 76 d2 66 03 7e d6 4a 75 d0 66

Stack dump:

00000010 00000000 04670090 00000007 0000001c 000c8400 00600000 00721900 b8d60000 000006f0 ffffffee 00000002 05b7163a 00000000 fc4205ef 00100010

I checked back in the forum for a possible solution. I tried taking the hardware acceleration level for the display down a notch, and when I first did this with PTE 4.48 it worked fine. However, subsequently it is not working (I see the error above). I have also tried turning off hardwre acceleration all together - but that doesn't help either. I have made sure that there is only one version of PTE installed (currently it is v5.0).

The video card is an (STB) nVidia TNT 16 Mb. The PC is quite old, not sure what processor speed (its a Dell Dimension XPS R450 with 256 Mb RAM).

Can anyone help? PTE is a really nice programme, and I'd really like for my Dad to be able to use it, as he is just getting keen on creating slideshows!

Thanks in advance.

AndyS (new member)

[Igor]

I just searched in Google and found that it's a known issue which may happens with various programs (games, antiviruses, firewal, even Internet Explorer 6, etc).

This is a video driver problem. Please try to install more new version of drivers for your video card (NVIDIA Riva TNT).

And Microsoft recommends to update video driver.

p.s. please read this topic on our forum concerning this problem:

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2787

[andrew.sier]

Thanks for this advice. I will try and install new drivers as you suggest and hope it solves the problem.