Crash on startup.

[Former user]

Game loads up fine with and without DSFix, but not with watchdog. With watchdog, it gets to the bonfire loading screen, displays a [ in the top left, and crashes. On rare occasions, it'll get far enough to show the "This game uses an auto-save function" message. Haven't altered the watchdog files. Using DSFix 2.4 and Watchdog 1.14.9

[infausto]

• Did it work before?
• Are you playing offline or online (Steam)?
• Can you paste your DSPWSteam.ini file contents here?
• Are you using other mods?

[Josh]

• It worked before, but after updating to the not region locked version of Dark Souls, and getting the updates for both DSFix and Watchdog, it won't. Works fine with just DSFix.
• Playing online
• Just DSFix
• I didn't edit the file since the default settings are good for me, but sure.

edit: It might be worth noting that verifying the integrity of the game cache will find 1 file that failed to validate every time, and steam proceeds to do a 0 byte update. I've already had steam delete the local files, removed everything from the directory, and reinstalled everything. The game still runs with that 1 file failing to validate.

# Dark Souls PVP Watchdog settings file
# 

# Display version banner
# apparently it's annoying for some people, set this to false
# to hide the version banner in the upper-left corner of the screen
#
ShowVersionBanner true

# Display in-game overlay
# set this to false to hide the in-game overlay entirely
#
ShowOverlay true

# Invasion sound notification
# if you want to play the Windows Default Beep sound
# when invading, or when someone invades you, set this to true
#
InvasionSoundNotification true

# Cheater sound notification
# if you want to play the Windows Exclamation sound
# when cheating is detected, set this to true
#
CheaterSoundNotification true

# Show your client pool size
# this will show you how many clients are currently connected
# to your multiplayer session. Useful if you need to decide
# whether to restart the game to fix the matchmaking or not.
#
ShowNodeDbCount true

# Reset invasion cooldown timers
# set this to true if you want a permanent dried finger effect.
# you can also press F4 in-game to toggle this.
#
ResetInvasionTimers false

# Font size
# vertical size of the in-game overlay font
# default is 15, max value is 72
#
FontSize 15

# Show system clock and date
# if you want to display a small clock in the upper-left corner
# of your screen, set this to true. Same goes with date.
#
DisplayDate false
DisplayClock true

# Check for updates
# will check the remote version on https://bitbucket.org/infausto/dark-souls-pvp-watchdog/
# and notify you if there's something new
#
CheckForUpdates true

# DLL chaining
# if you want to load another dll after DSPW, put its name here
# NOTE: if the dll you're trying to chain doesn't export D3DCreate9
# this won't work, dark souls won't load and you'll blame me :p
# so, if things stop working set this back to 'none' and forget
# about it
#
d3d9dllWrapper none

[Josh]

Looks like it works again with 1.15.0

Neat.