0xc0000142 type error solutions?

[BEENNath58]

One quirk of newer and newer Windows is the intolerance to older apps, where many apps stop running and respond with a 0xc0000142 error (Access Violation). This has been a common occurrence of the threads I respond to over Vogons and DxWnd.

Over time, the popularity of the error seems to keep increasing, some by DEP, some by other apps, some by other services.

I haven't found a single type of solution to this issue: since there isn't any single cause of the issue, however I wonder if DxWrapper can help handle such issues on its own, or point to where the error comes from so that the user can take care of that program, process, service.

[elishacloud]

dxwrapper already has fixes for some of these types of memory errors. Basically I would need to troubleshoot each one and figure out the root cause and put a fix in for them. I am trying to put generic fixes in for these types of things so that it can fix more than one game. However, I am not very good at debugging memory corruption issues like this.

For example, I fixed an issue in Interstate 82 for Windows 10 and then found out there is another related issue in Windows 11 but I have not gotten to the bottom of the issue in Windows 11.

The best way to fix this is obviously to patch the game and remove the error. But that is a lot of work to patch all these games. I hope to put fixes into dxwrapper little by little to fix these games without requiring a game patch.

[BEENNath58]

As for now, the user who messaged is trying to run "Last Days Of Gaia". They sent the Event Viewer log
"Problem signature:
P1: thefall.exe
P2: 65535.65535.65535.65535
P3: 449a969d
P4: mingwm10.dll
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 4123b71e
P7: c0000005
P8: 00002d90
P9:
P10:"

I told them to probably contact here as it may help more for the issue

[fluent2]

Hey there. I'm the one trying to get this game to work to no avail. Tried literally everything I know to do, all the compatibility options, tried the Reloaded/original iso's, tried converting the .bin to .iso's and installing that way, nothing worked. Wishing I could figure this out as I can get pretty much all the abandonware games to work eventually except this one.

This also seems related, in Event Viewer - svchost (8368,R,98,0) SRUJet: An attempt to open the file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\SRU\SRU.chk" for read / write access failed with system error 5 (0x00000005): "Access is denied. ". The open file operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8).

Faulting application name: thefall.exe, version: 65535.65535.65535.65535, time stamp: 0x44687c57
Faulting module name: mingwm10.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x41e6d69f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00001870
Faulting process id: 0x9678
Faulting application start time: 0x1DB5FFF7D8B87C8
Faulting application path: G:\E Games\The Fall - Last Days Of Gaia\thefall.exe
Faulting module path: G:\E Games\The Fall - Last Days Of Gaia\mingwm10.dll
Report Id: d507dcf7-6709-4390-803b-d74bf87217e4
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

[fluent2]

And is the sru.chk file supposed to be a 'recovered file fragments' type of file?? If I hover over it in file explorer it says 'recovered file fragments during a scan' or something like that. And I can't seem to fix the sru folder permissions with icacls and an acl file.