sfml window example crashes due to acess violation on joystick driver ezfrd64.dll

[sca255]

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Describe your issue here

i have a generic joystick with a driver containing EZFRD64.dll so the exe crashes due to that
and in the stack trace it causes access violation
here is the details:
Unhandled exception at 0x0000000010003654 (EZFRD64.dll) in craft++.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x000000003B5C0090.

Your Environment

-windows 64 bit

• SFML version: 2.6.1 64 bit
• visual studio 2022 /vc17

Steps to reproduce

#include <SFML/Window.hpp>

int main()
{
sf::Window window(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "My window");

// run the program as long as the window is open
while (window.isOpen())
{
    // check all the window's events that were triggered since the last iteration of the loop
    sf::Event event;
    while (window.pollEvent(event))
    {
        // "close requested" event: we close the window
        if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
            window.close();
    }
}

return 0;

}

Expected behavior

the exe should run and not crash

Actual behavior

the exe crashes after 5 seconds i cannot move or close it in that time

[sca255]

if i disconnect the gamepad it works normally

my gamepad is enter e-gpv

[eXpl0it3r]

Sounds like a broken driver. If you do a web search for "EZFRD64.dll", you'll get a lot of similar results.

One of the "solutions" I saw is to remove the specific DLL from C:\Windows\USB_Vibration\**\EZFRD64.dll.
Some say that this disables the vibration functionality though (note that SFML doesn't support rumble).

I'm closing this, as it doesn't seem like something we can "fix" in SFML.

[sca255]

oh ok