ActiveWorlds Forum

As of update 1155 for Activeworlds 5.1, there is no longer a compatibility between any of the Crossover applications and Activeworlds. Once you upgrade to that new update, the message states that an error has occurred due to incompatibility and the program has to close. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to make a program compatible again?

I'm using an IMac with Mac OS X Version 10.6.4; Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz Ram

I've tried to load the program with Crossover Mac, Crossover Games, and Crossover Pro and had no luck with any of them.

Hi,

I don't know what the solution may be (if any at this time), but I can confirm
the issue wrt linux. One can install and run the base 5.1 version -- you can also
accept the first online update version and it still runs --- accepting/installing
the second online update (which I'll imagine is the 1155 update you refer to) will
and does cause a wine crash just after the program GUI starts -- I also notice at
this time, that the program GUI/layout has been changed considerably in the latest
update compared to previous versions ; I'll posit this has something to do with it.

I see Aric's done the C4P profile for this -- I note he's chosen to use mshtml6 for
this (app_id=7853) so I just had a little installfest with the linux box to see if
any other permutation of mshtml rendering support fairs any better ; none of them
did [mshtml7/ie6/ie7/cxhtml8] --- in fact, the wine debug on the crash is always
the same trace...vis;

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000559 at address 0x673021 (thread 0018), starting debugger...
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=>0 0x00673021 in aworld (+0x273021) (0x032e9224)                                                               
0x00673021: movl        0x60(%eax),%edx
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.
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warn:seh:setup_exception_record exception outside of stack limits in thread 0018 eip 7d4411f2 esp ff997570 stack  0x242000-0x340000

I can tell you now, that is not a good thing -- I think the best idea here, is that
you email info@codeweavers.com and let them know about this issue...you can point
to this thread for reference, and someone (Ninja/staff) should get back to you in
short time...

...as for running this app, I suppose the only workable advice at present, is to
not allow the latest online update to roll in 8)

Cheers!

sad that it essentially FORCES you into updates

contacted CW support. will follow up with their reply

Thank you for letting us know this program no longer works with Crossover. I will file a bug on the issue with the information in the forum post for our internal bug tracking. Unfortunately this isn't a program that we support or test, so it's unlikely to get any love from our developers. With unsupported applications I usually ask folks to mention regressions like this over at winehq.org so that any and all Wine devs can see the problem and work on it if they choose to.