I got an 'Access violation' error on a brand new untouched project. How do I fix this?

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I have Visual Studio 2013 installed. I also have XNA 4.0 installed, but that's not causing the problem since I tried creating a project without using an XNA template or XNA code, and I got this same error. I'm running this on Windows 7 64 bit. I created a project called "Tetris Attack". I did absolutely nothing with the code, so it's just simply everything given in the template. What should happen is the code should run, and I should get a window whose contents are simply the color blue. I tried to run it in debug mode (the same thing happens in release mode), and I got this in the output window:

The program '[5916] Tetris Attack.exe: Program Trace' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The program '[5916] Tetris Attack.exe' has exited with code -1073741819 (0xc0000005) 'Access violation'.

It didn't run the program. I get the same problem no matter what project I try to run. It gives me some stuff not relevant to this problem in the output, then it gives me what I have above. How do I fix this? The code runs just fine if I "start without debugging", so there must not be anything wrong with the code. If you want to see everything given to me in the output window, you can find it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22626646/i-got-an-access-violation-error-on-a-brand-new-untouched-project[^]

Update: I tried installing Visual Studio 2013 on a separate computer and tried debugging various types of projects on that, and I have not experienced this problem in any way. It must have something to do with my computer. What does anyone think it is?

Posted 26-Mar-14 10:35am

PianoMastR64

Updated 7-Jun-16 5:20am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Mar-14 16:46pm

If you did "absolutely nothing" to the code, its author did. The post is totally non-informative.
—SA

PianoMastR64 27-Mar-14 0:07am

Your comment is non-informative. Tell me exactly what information you need to be able to help me with my problem. Otherwise you're just trolling. Do you not understand the problem? Do you need anymore information about something specific? What is it? When I say I did nothing to the code, I mean it gave me a template to work with which, when ran, will create a window with nothing but blue inside it. I didn't add any more code to it, so it should work.

I've been stuck on this problem for 3 days now, and it's starting to get old. It would be nice if someone were to help me.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-14 0:43am

No, no, no. My comment is not even supposed to be informative, because I'm not asking for help and not making any technical statement. Calm down.

Please realize, I don't need anything, you do. If you are interested in some help, you will be able to provide enough information.

Good luck.
—SA

PianoMastR64 27-Mar-14 2:24am

I didn't mean that to sound like I have any negative emotions toward your comment. I was just presenting to you what I thought to be relevant information. I am however frustrated with the problem I'm having. I'm also frustrated with the lack of help, but that has nothing to do with you since you at least replied in some form.

Although, apparently I misunderstood your comment. Are you saying the author of the template I was using might have flawed code? If so, I know that's not the case because I tried skipping the debug process and just running the code, and it worked perfectly fine.

I have no clue what you mean by "The post is totally non-informative." if you're not talking about my post you commented on. I'm also not sure why you think that I think you need help from me.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-14 2:53am

I understand. Yes, the author's code could be flawed. Good code work on many different systems of different versions flawlessly. Not running under the debugger is important information, and is a really bad sign. Is such cases, one typical syndrome to suspect is race condition (incorrect dependency of execution on the timing). Roughly speaking, debug process slightly delays threads, one of the thread goes a bit ahead of time, and, due to incorrect (and unintended) dependency of timing, something bad happens. Sometimes, such condition can be revealed by adding some artificial delay in some strategically chosen point(s) (god forbid, not for "fixing", just for revealing the problem). But it need thorough study of the code; and experimental approach is not very helpful. It really, really needs much more detailed information. Such things are not easy, but good experience helps to spot such problems...
—SA

PianoMastR64 27-Mar-14 3:55am

Well... as I explained in my update (which you may or may not have seen), I installed VS 2013 on a separate computer, and everything worked just fine. I think I'll just reinstall my operating system. I'm getting a new computer soon, so this isn't as radical of a solution as it may seem at first. Is there any advice you can give me that requires less work than reinstalling my OS?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-14 10:32am

Trying to identify potential race condition. But it needs good understanding of things. Playing with the solution code, even without debugging. After all, logging, with timing. Having another system? If the project will work on it, it won't be a solution. It will be anti-solution, a failure to reproduce the actually existing problem.
You can fully blame the author of this solution... :-)
—SA

BELGIUMsky 27-Mar-14 3:52am

Can you try starting visual studio as administrator?
Maybe your user doesn't have rights to open files/execute in the folder of your project

PianoMastR64 27-Mar-14 4:03am

Wow. I really didn't think that would work. Thanks. That just solved my problem. Although that brings up a separate less pressing issue. Why doesn't my user have the rights to do certain things on this computer, and it does on the other computer I tested it on? I'm an administrator on both computers. Is there some setting that needs to be examined?

BELGIUMsky 27-Mar-14 4:16am

Is the project created on the other computer or did you create it with this user?
It is possible that microsoft only gave the creator the rights to execute/change the folder or files in that folder.
Do you know how to see or change rights on a folder?
If you do. You could try to add the user that doesn't have the rights and make him able to change/execute files in that folder and subfolders

If you don't know how to do that i will try to explane how to do it(or find a good tutorial or how to for you)

PianoMastR64 27-Mar-14 4:37am

I tried creating projects then running them, and I tried running already created projects on both computers, so that can't be it.

I just learned what that is and how to do it. I never had to do anything with permissions before, so I can't see that being the problem, although it's possible. I've decided I don't care anymore. The problem's fixed. Thank you.

Here's the tutorial you probably would have given me:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/122666-permissions-allow-deny-users-groups.html

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PianoMastR64 · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-26T22:19:00

I have the solution to my problem. Make sure you are running Visual studio as an administrator.

To make Visual Studio always run as an administrator:
-Right click the shortcut that leads to Visual Studio.
-Click "Properties".
-Go to the "Compatibility" tab.
-Check the box "Run this program as an administrator".
-Click "OK".

To run Visual Studio as an administrator once:
-Right click the shortcut that leads to Visual Studio.
-Click "Run as administrator".

ashok rathod · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-26T22:38:00

1) It looks like from the application message is that your application is going to use some memory location that it should not going to use or not provided access(visual studio has less privileged mode or application (Tetris) is runnning in less privileged mode.)

so can try with running visual studio in administrator mode.

2)Might be physical location which were used by your application having some problem.So my suggestion is that if u failed to regenerate above scenario u can try with Restarting Visual studio and Machine as well...

I got an 'Access violation' error on a brand new untouched project. How do I fix this?

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