Determine a crash?

[Robske]

I don't recall such behavior in the 2.4.3 client from back when it was live, is the executable itself modified by your private server?

[Cypher]

I don't recall such behavior in the 2.4.3 client from back when it was live, is the executable itself modified by your private server?

Yeah that's a good point.

OP, can you also post the hash of your Wow.exe? Also, do they make you use a loader/launcher or any other special software in order to connect to the server?

[namreeb]

Am I missing something here? Is there a reason he cannot post the stack trace/error report given by WowError.exe? That should make it fairly clear what the issue is...

[Jadd]

Am I missing something here? Is there a reason he cannot post the stack trace/error report given by WowError.exe? That should make it fairly clear what the issue is...

Nope, he said he will look for the crash logs later. In the meantime Cypher and Robske are trying to work out why the game would crash without any kind of interaction from his bot.

[xalcon]

I had the same issue until I replaced my RAM (some of them were defect). A lot of games were just crashing (also got a wide array of bluescreens, even some I never heard from before ). This might not be your problem, but should consider a hardware defect if everything else fails.

[homer91]

I am stil thinking about the best possible way to detect the crash.

I've had the same dilemma/problem a while ago, came up with the following ideas, but I didn't implement it.


1st idea.) Look for WowError, read the crash log from memory that contains the PID:

This application has encountered a critical error:

ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal exception!

Program:	C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe
ProcessID:	5948

2nd idea.) Find a function that will only be called upon crashing. Hook it in every running instance.
Funcs worth looking into in 3.3.5a

• 0x771D10
• 0x772B20
• 0x772760

3rd idea.) Find a static memory location that will hold a specific value that indicates that the client crashed.
For example, 0xCAD804 in 3.3.5a is always equals 1 for me upon crash. I did not look into this variable so I don't know what it is exactly.

I feel like there must be an easier, more obvious solution for this though...

[hb123220]

when client crashes,it's MainWindow Title will be "Wow", if i remember