"A new guard page for the stack cannot be created"

[Oogie the Mutant Ninja]

Steam or GOG

Steam

Single Player/Multiplayer

Single

Operating System

Windows 10

Terraria Version

1.4.1

Controls Used

Keyboard/Mouse

So, a friend of mine tried launching the game after this update rolled out and it has been giving him this error. He validated inegrity of game files and reinstalled the game and nothing works. I don't have this issue.

Screenshot of error:

Thanks in advance.

 

[Leinfors]

This is not a message we've ever seen with Terraria before, it appears to be an out of memory error of some sort.

Have your friend restart their PC and try launching again; if you could, check what their PC specs are!

 

[Oogie the Mutant Ninja]

Here are their specs.

 

[Gotheran]

Having the same issue as of 1.4.1

 

[Raz1804]

I have managed to fix this issue. I found the Terraria.exe ('Browse local files' on Steam), right-click -> Properties -> Compatibility tab -> Tick the checkbox labelled 'Run this program as an administrator'. This fixed it for me.
This should allow you to launch the game through Steam without issues.

 

[Leinfors]

@Oogie the Mutant Ninja and @Gotheran can you try the fix mentioned above from Raz?

If it does not work, let me know, and we'll pursue further. There are a LOT of issues that can be resolved by running as Admin.

 

[Gotheran]

@Leinfors Running as admin did not help. I can launch the game occasionally but it will give me this error 9/10.

 

[Raz1804]

I have managed to fix this issue. I found the Terraria.exe ('Browse local files' on Steam), right-click -> Properties -> Compatibility tab -> Tick the checkbox labelled 'Run this program as an administrator'. This fixed it for me.
This should allow you to launch the game through Steam without issues.

Well never mind, it is definitely a bit better with this fix but still temperamental. After poking around in Event Viewer, there is a recurring selection of events that get listed each and every time this occurs. I can provide more details on these if needed.

A quick search online using the event information indicates that there's a possible memory leak, or a recursive call makes the app run out of stack.

Terraria seems to launch more consistently when there is more available RAM, despite the fact I am using 16GB and it never goes above 6 when launching. Temporarily closing things like Chrome whilst launching may help.

 

[Raz1804]

Temporarily closing things like Chrome whilst launching may help.

In my case, this has worked every time so far.