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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0013086Dwarf FortressGeneralpublic2025-02-03 05:58
ReporterJasonMel Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritycrashReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformPC (itch.io)OSWindows 10 HomeOS Version22H2
Product Version51.03 
Summary0013086: Game executable will not launch
DescriptionJust downloaded 51.03 from itch. Extracted to a new directory and moved it to Program Files. Executable does not launch — the mouse cursor changes briefly to an hourglass and back, but nothing else happens. I tried removing the read-only attribute from the folder and all its contents, but this had no effect on execution.

Other installed versions do not have this problem.
Steps To ReproduceLaunch game executable.
Additional InformationLink to Windows Error Reporting crash report: https://dffd.bay12games.com/download.php?id=17317&f=Report.wer.txt
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Windows Event Viewer items:
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Error: Application Error
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)

Faulting application name: Dwarf Fortress.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x6795253d
Faulting module name: MSVCP140.dll, version: 14.32.31326.0, time stamp: 0x7255e0ca
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000013278
Faulting process id: 0x36c
Faulting application start time: 0x01db76109d810384
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\dwarf_fortress_51_03_windows\Dwarf Fortress.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSVCP140.dll
Report Id: b1b783ac-508d-4117-a6e2-d880c1c4cd8e
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
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Information: Windows Error Reporting
Event ID: 1001
Task Category: None

Fault bucket 2170806595143520131, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: Dwarf Fortress.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 6795253d
P4: MSVCP140.dll
P5: 14.32.31326.0
P6: 7255e0ca
P7: c0000005
P8: 0000000000013278
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER88E1.tmp.dmp
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER8930.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER898F.tmp.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER898D.tmp.csv
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER89BD.tmp.txt

These files may be available here:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_Dwarf Fortress.e_32d618f5a14c72ba092285c999c29153e2b7839_62bddf8c_741b8ff7-0455-4574-9b73-bb936d84b657

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: b1b783ac-508d-4117-a6e2-d880c1c4cd8e
Report Status: 268435456
Hashed bucket: 150cb8d63257fe581e204118cb9acf83
Cab Guid: 0
TagsNo tags attached.

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JasonMel

2025-02-03 00:35

reporter   ~0042525

Occurs even on new download, extracted, un-read-only-ed, and run in place without moving to Program Files.

errorlog.txt and gamelog.txt are blank.

JasonMel

2025-02-03 01:35

reporter   ~0042526

This crash no longer happens after installing the latest VC++ redistributable from Microsoft, 14.42.34433.0: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe As shown above, I had apparently been on 14.32.31326.0.

Quietust

2025-02-03 05:57

reporter   ~0042527

Last edited: 2025-02-03 05:58

On a side note, Dwarf Fortress is not designed to run from the Program Files directory - unless you unrestrict its permissions (which defeats the purpose of putting it there), it will be unable to save any new worlds (or even save configuration changes).

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Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-02-03 00:15 JasonMel New Issue
2025-02-03 00:35 JasonMel Note Added: 0042525
2025-02-03 01:35 JasonMel Note Added: 0042526
2025-02-03 05:57 Quietust Note Added: 0042527
2025-02-03 05:58 Quietust Note Edited: 0042527