When Trying To Run Game, Error Pops Up

[Dan]

I got Harry Potter and the Quiddich World cup for xmas, and installed it. I try to run it. The splash screen comes up, then an error comes up:

QWC caused an invalid page fault in

module QWC.EXE at 0167:00516063.

Registers:

EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=00516063 EFLGS=00010206

EBX=00f7ad70 SS=016f ESP=013ffc5c EBP=005cd444

ECX=00240000 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=5f27

EDX=00000200 ES=016f EDI=0060beb8 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

8b 38 51 50 ff 57 5c 85 c0 5f c7 04 b5 70 ed f7

Stack dump:

00000200 00000000 00000000 00f7ad70 0060beb8 00000000 00000000 0050c9cc 00240000 0060beb8 0050c6f6 0052c924 00f92358 00f92358 00048000 00000002

That happend before, when I borrowed the game from someone else.

Please help,

dk

[Nerelda]

DK.....knowing the OS at least would be helpful.

Apparently "QW.exe" has to do with Qwicken. Is that on your computer by chance? Do you even use it? If not, I would just uninstall it.

[JSKY]

You will need to replace the "QW.exe" with a fix (QW stands for Quidditch World) So if you have Qwickens, you can leave it.

Here is a link to the fixed file, and instructions on what to do.

QW.exe fix

Enjoy the game.

[Dan]

Ok, the OS was Windows 98SE...

Thanks, will tell you if it worked tomorrow.

dk

[LinuxLuver]

I got Harry Potter and the Quiddich World cup for xmas, and installed it. I try to run it. The splash screen comes up, then an error comes up:

QWC caused an invalid page fault in

module QWC.EXE at 0167:00516063.

I have had the same problem....and conside the game to be unfit for sale.

I have NINE PCs here and the game will not intall and run properly on ANY of them.

The EA web site support database is full of problems for a wide variety of games that come back to ONE thing: the anti-piracy measures in EA games.

Many (most?) CD drives out there simply can't handle the scrambled sectors at the beginning of these CDs.

Depending on where you live and what CD drives / makes are popular, you may have serious trouble playing this game. All MY CD drives are AOpen or NEC.....and these two makes cannot read this disk due to the anti-piracy stuff.

Unfortunately, I had bought the game a couple of months before my daughter's birthday....and the previous two games had played with ony problems on Windows and also played just fine on Linux via WINE.

I reported the problem to EA...who directed me the CD tips....and basically told me my hardware was at fault.

So all 12 of the CD drives in my nine systems are "faulty" in thier view.

That was the last EA game I bought. No point wasting money on games you can't install play. The only way to make them work, apparently, is create a copy of the game disk that has the Suresafe 2 stuff disabled and removed. See www.cdfreaks.com.

[cowsgonemadd3]

HE HE Harry potter.........