Weird problem after cars.wad change which never happened before

One reason that I'm very busy since years are technical problems. Now I came across with another one. I was trying a cars.wad which I have created somewhere back in 2014 to check the cars if there are any graphical issues. But GP4 didn't start, I just got a black screen and then it crashed back to desktop without error log. I tried it again, but for some reason the GP4.exe in the GP4 main directory was gone! Luckily I had a backup somewhere else and put it back to the right place. This time there was no black screen and a very short error log was created. I tried out another cars.wad which I created back in 2014 but the problem was the same - the GP4.exe was eaten up by anything! After the second try the same error log was created, which should mean that the cars.wads might be both not faulty. Then I tried to load the cars.wad in TeamEditor, but it can not load the file and brings me only a French error screen which disappeared after a second. Well, here is the short error log:

Starting log
GPxPatch version: 4.45
GPx version detected: decrypted GP4 v1.02
Date/time: 14-12-2018 17:12
[17:12:07.327] Verbosity level is 2
[17:12:07.327] OS version info: Windows 10 build 17134
[17:12:07.327] Total physical memory: 4050 MB (free: 1643 MB)
[17:12:07.327] Debugging gp4.exe
[17:12:07.343] Process created:
Process ID = 0x00003348
Process handle = 0x00000af4
Main thread ID = 0x000035e0
Main thread handle = 0x00000af0
Process will run on CPU 0 only
[17:12:07.343] Waiting for debug events...
[17:12:07.343] Debug event: CREATE_PROCESS_DEBUG_EVENT
[17:12:07.343] Thread ID = 0x000035e0
[17:12:07.343] Entry point = 0x005ddec6
[17:12:07.343] Debug event: LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT
[17:12:07.343] Thread ID = 0x000035e0
[17:12:07.343] path
base 0x77630000
size 1620472
[17:12:07.343] Debug event: EXIT_PROCESS_DEBUG_EVENT
[17:12:07.343] Thread ID = 0x000035e0
[17:12:07.343] Process exit code = -1073741790

Who can help? Did I made a mistake or forgot something?

Well, for some reason my antivirus scan deletes GP4.exe when trying to launch the game via GPxPatch. This has not happened anytime before. I will try other cars.wads now to see what causes the problem....

Now I have put the same cars.wad back to GP4 main directory which was running fine yesterday. But GP4 won't launch anymore. I have tried a fresh GPxPatch installation and an older version (v4.44) as well, but nothing changes. Help me....



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2018 07:25PM by TGF1Driver2.

Try to set an exclusion (no scan) for the folder which incluses GP4 in your antivirus parameters
What is your anti virus?

Norton Internet Security. But I don't understand why it suddenly stopped working after changing the cars.wad, everything worked fine yesterday!

May be a virus définition update which doesn't like GP4

Any other ideas? I don't think that it is caused by an update.

I have Norton, and it also wanted to remove gp4.exe for a while. But everytime it did, I collected it from quarantine, told the program that the file is safe and to never remove it again.
When I had updated the .exe with TeamEditor, it did it again. So I just repeated the same procedure every time, and then it suddenly stopped


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Norton says that GP4.exe is a high risk for my computer. Norton sucks!

Thank you! Problem ist solved!

Heuristics checking. Double-edged sword. It might suck but Norton AV would be much less effective without it.

Hate to sound smug but Linux users don't have to concern themselves with such things. A quick virus check once in a blue moon and it's good to go. I've found two viruses in over ten years of Linux use (both Windows specific).