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paraidy
29-07-2005, 18:22
Hi all, i have a problem with this version of SoftIce under Windows Xp with service pack 2, when i set a brack point, when i press F5 to comeback to windows the system Crash, my mouse Freeze, but if i press alt+d SoftIce reappears, someone can help me? :\
Muji-FightR
30-07-2005, 11:47
Sorry this sounds stupid, but where can i download SoftICE...? :confused:
I've been looking for hours but i couldn't find any useful download?!
BTW: What's the newest version of SI?
DABhand
30-07-2005, 16:17
LOL

Oh dear, you dont download Sice, you pay for it.

And dont think of me as being rude, but im sure you cant afford it.
DABhand
30-07-2005, 16:18
Hi all, i have a problem with this version of SoftIce under Windows Xp with service pack 2, when i set a brack point, when i press F5 to comeback to windows the system Crash, my mouse Freeze, but if i press alt+d SoftIce reappears, someone can help me? :\


Could be a kind of anti-sice protection. try another game see if it does the same, if so you may have set the wrong kind of mouse.
Muji-FightR
31-07-2005, 07:00
LOL

Oh dear, you dont download Sice, you pay for it.

And dont think of me as being rude, but im sure you cant afford it.
I now that dude...
Why shouldn't I pay for it? I'm not poor you know :confused:
I just wanted to have a look at it (the demo)...
So what is the newest version and where can i download the OFFICIAL DEMO-VERSION ?
Does it work on WinXP ? I heard some weirde things about it not working on XP :eek:
DABhand
31-07-2005, 13:14
There is no demo.

Sice is a retail debugger, and very expensive.
DABhand
31-07-2005, 13:17
Believe it or not there is indeed a 14 day trial.. lol I thought Id never see that happening..


Anyways, if you want to buy, here is the link


http://shop.compuware.com/dr/sat1/ec_MAIN.Entry16?PN=1&SP=10023&S1=&S2=&S3=&S4=&S5=&V1=678006&V2=&V3=&V4=&V5=31040663&xid=52998&DSP=0&CUR=826&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0
paraidy
01-08-2005, 08:54
the system crash only with service pack 2, without sp2 Sice start ok, but doesn't work, i set the breack point but sice don't freeze the application, some one can post his working osinfo.dat? :(
DABhand
02-08-2005, 02:45
Against the rules to ask for files.


But check your SICE.dat file, should be in your windows\system32\drivers folder, open it with notepad.

If you have an AMD CPU turn off the pentium mode at the top.

Change your memory size, screen size etc here also. Save and restart the PC if you have Sice resident in the memory running.
paraidy
02-08-2005, 10:06
I'm sorry, I thought it was against the rules only to ask for illegal files and not for all king of files.
peee
10-08-2005, 02:57
the system crash only with service pack 2, without sp2 Sice start ok, but doesn't work, i set the breack point but sice don't freeze the application, some one can post his working osinfo.dat? :(

Service Pack 2 for XP is total garbage anyway, but I digress.

Did you actually configure softice after install, or did you click next all the way through it? You have to load the exports, and (I guess depending on the OS and service pack) often the symbol files too. I used to have the SP1 symbols but lost them a while back, so I can't help there.

How is softice set to boot? There's 5 options: Boot, System, Automatic, Manual and then disabled. Which one is yours set to? Automatic has always seemed to work fine for me (when the others wouldn't) and I'm using XP and SP1 now with it installed and working.

It doesn't always seem to break though. Doing bpx on messageboxa doesn't seem to have any result, no matter which program calls that function, so I don't know. GetWindowTextA and CreateFileA work, but I don't think MessageBoxA does, and I kind of think the symbol files are why.

Before, you could use the symbol retriever, download the files from microsoft's site and then convert them to NMS to be loaded into softice. Unfortunately, the URL for the symbols doesn't seem to work anymore.
DABhand
10-08-2005, 15:17
Dont listen to him about Auto mode, if you do this, you will never be able to play most of your original games since they check for Sice.
paraidy
11-08-2005, 14:42
i usually set to manual, after install i only change the path in winice.dat to load the dll files, i'm not yet pratice with softice and don't know how to configure it to optimize it with my system :(