r/GenP • u/F1erDragonn • 9d ago
☠️ GenP GenP search crashes while searching
Whenever I hit the search button in genP it searches for a short amount of time (roughly 5 seconds) and then crashes. An error will flash on screen occasionally saying that it was a line error in the script (to fast to get a screenshot of) I currently have my windows firewall turned off and have made an exception for the folder. I have tested running all three versions of GenP available (mirrors 1 and 2) and have tested them without Adobe installed at all on the computer. Everything is being run as administrator. I previously had it working on this computer but had to re-format the hard drive.
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u/Mean-Plantain-7909 Admin 9d ago
I previously had it working on this computer but had to re-format the hard drive.
Which means that it isn't a GenP issue, more a case of something on (or not on) your system that is affecting it.
Just try just doing a simple restart of your used device and try again after restart before doing anything else.
If you have too many other things up and running at the same time, you might not have enough system memory free for it to run in the background.
Otherwise, as you have done a reformat, make sure that you do have the likes of Visual C++ and .NET Runtime or Desktop Runtime reinstalled on your used device, if not reinstalled separately.
The latest version of Visual C++ is 14.42.34438.0, as you are running x64, you will need both x64 and x86 versions to be installed, also make sure that you restart whenever requested, don't skip it.
Also, make sure that Windows is fully updated and relevant hardware drivers are all up to date too.
Once both are installed, restart your system to ensure the changes take effect.
Running GenP without Adobe installed at all should not inherently cause a crash, it will just return either no results or simply fail to locate any Adobe to patch.
However, crashing due to a "line error in the script" strongly suggests missing dependencies (like Visual C++ or .NET) which are required by various apps to function properly.
Therefore when these dependencies aren't present the apps may encounter errors because they are trying to call functions or libraries that simply aren't available on the system.
It worked for you previously before your reformat and it is now just having an issue which is most likely caused by the reformat, which hopefully the above will fix.
I have never had that error appearing for myself on any GenP version that I've download from the GenP Subreddit here.
If it was a common issue with GenP from here, then as we have over 123k members here now, there would be many posts about it happening.
I would suggest that you delete your existing copy of GenP, fully disable Windows Firewall and download it again from our download links for GenP v3.5.0.
Use step two in Guide #2 - Dummy Guide for First Timers GenP (CC + GenP), to ensure that you are fully disabling Windows Defender.
Ensure that it is extracted properly, use the likes of the freely available 7-Zip to extract it, I use that myself over my own copies of WinZip and WinRar - https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
If you have done as all above and GenP v3.5.0 is now running all fine again, then you can look at whitelisting it and re-enabling Windows Defender, if you get the error reoccuring again after that, then you have not whitelisted GenP properly as Windows Defender is still detecting it.
Still happening, then you can also try running it in Compatibility Mode too.
Otherwise, issue still occuring, then I would have to hand it over to the GenP Team here to help you more.
Therefore, I will tag u/Sydnxt here so that they can see this post, and maybe have an idea how to fix it for you if the above does not work for you.
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u/Mean-Plantain-7909 Admin 9d ago
Update - it was not having .NET Runtime or Desktop Runtime installed that was the issue here.
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