Data Execution Prevention

[Graeme]

Hello

Any Minecraft players here? My son is an avid fan and all has been well. However, today on loading the game to play in Internet Explorer 8 we got a Data Execution Prevention error then XP closed down IE. The only information I can find on the issue talks of adding the programme causing the error to a list of exceptions in the My Computer Properties. But I didn't want to add IE when the error is only being caused by a single website.

The problem could be their end but there is no mention of it on their forums and I can't ask because there seems to be a delay in activating my login. So I came to the experts instead!

Is there a tweak I can implement in IE to fix the problem?

Regards

Graeme

[HansV]

Does the problem persist after rebooting the PC?

[Graeme]

'Fraid so. Even after a re-boot, when I run the game I get this:



If I click return to Minecraft i get:



And when I close message I get:

[StuartR]

Will this game only work with Internet Explorer?
It might be worth installing Firefox, or Chrome, or another alternate browser of your choice to see if this gives a satisfactory workaround.

[wasbit]

Have you tried the Minecraft forums?

- http://www.minecraftforum.net/index.php ... 874f717b0c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Graeme]

StuartR - Tried it on Firefox, didn't get a Data Execution Prevention error but the game froze as soon as it loaded.

Wasbit - I tried the Minecraft Forum but only got one brief answer that didn't really help much.

Oh well, I'll try to convince my son to go back to Roblox instead!

[Graeme]

I have found the reason for the Internet Explorer error. It's because I have a new mobile phone! The phone is a Sony Erricson X8 which runs Android apps. Just out of interest I downloaded the Android Developers Software Developement Kit. Following the installation guide carefully, prior to installing the SDK I downloaded and installed the Java JDK which over wrote my existing version of Java. It would seem that the Minecraft game is not compatible with this version of Java. I deleted the new version of Java and re-installed the normal version of Java. Minecraft is once again functioning correctly and my little boy is well happy!

[StuartR]

Thanks for posting the solution. As is so often the case it was a change that led to the failure.

Alls well that ends well.

[Graeme]

Alls well that ends well.

Unless I want to play with the Android app developer before my son has had enough of Minecraft!