RESOLVED: lsass.exe running @ 50% w/ Tinker.exe

lol...On my computer, lsass.exe shows up as having 146,000 events, while Tinker has a meager 73,000 events. I would tell you exact numbers, but ProcMon crashed quite a few times on me and I could only glance at the numbers before I couldn't scroll over anymore. Not sure why that happened, but I was able to capture these images:

Here is the set of commands that lsass.exe keeps repeating, followed by a page of Tinker.exe, then this:



Then, out of nowhere, it goes clean; it was when it starts opening up this SECURITY folder that the game actually opens (not fully, of course):



I'm going to try ProcMon again, see what happens right when the game starts to open, but I've been having some trouble with it crashing; maybe too many processes opening up?

~Ibrahim~

Really? That is so weird. It seems to crash a lot, for some odd reason. It was OK yesterday, but I only ran it twice. Yeah, I have SP1.

Oh. lol, blast nam it! Well, I captured this capture actually just as ProcMon was crashing (it usually happens when I put on a filter and then remove it):



Then the game opens with that black window. I would've scrolled down some, but, yeah. It just opens; I saw winlogin open once, but that might've been a process profiling again. I've noticed that Tinker will only start calling up sound files when the game actually starts to open.

Here is the AppData properties:



Thanks again!

~Ibrahim~

P.S. I've moved many of my user folders to a different hard drive partition; AppData and Favorites are the only two left on my main OS partition. Thought you might want to know.


Edited by ikjadoon - 03 October 2008 at 2:18pm

Blast, no. Nothing comes up, minus a dialog box saying it can't find it. :(

Would an old GPU driver cause this? I'm on an old one (December, 2007) because this is the only one that allows my dual monitors to work correctly...

~Ibrahim~

Oh, blast, I guess not. I want to say so, yes. I'm not positive,but it never crashes in the very beginning.

Old GPU driver: the Tinker issue.

Sure, give me a few moments while I get Tinker running again.

~Ibrahim~

EDIT: I don't seem to have a LocalDumps folder, only Consent, Debug, Excluded Applications, Hangs, Heapcontrolledlist, and Livekernel reports. No Localdumps folder in Windows Error Reporting.


Edited by ikjadoon - 03 October 2008 at 2:43pm

Oh......I get it now. Sorry, I was a bit confused; I've actually never made an entire folder (key) in the Registry, just new values. :) Running it again.

~Ibrahim~