This is probably going to be quite a difficult problem to diagnose but I'll give it a shot anyway. I have an application that I have written (and regularly update) in VC2008. This application is used on a day to day basis on a few computers. No crashes or problems (redistributable installed).
Unfortunately, I have an issue now where the latest version of my app does not run on a box in China. The latest version continues to function fine on other computers I have it going on (all australian), yet for some reason, the new version fails on a chinese installation of win xp. Very little has changed during this time and we have tried reinstalling the redistributable.
The app will not load (gives an error in chinese), the error I have added if the memory location atall gives any help in figuring out. I'm told the chinese translates to something like "program initialise fail".
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