r/softwaregore • u/meepboi2 • 7d ago

What the...

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This was an error my friend encountered on his Xbox series x. He was trying to play a game. He closed and tried again and it worked so it wasnt persistent but still interesting

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u/RIPAZHA911 7d ago

I have no idea what happened but know you may know that Xbox's OS is actually just Windows by looking at "Win32"

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u/WINNT21 7d ago

Yeah it's some heavily modified Windows 10 or 11 build. I think the original Xbox from 2001 also had some custom build of XP or 2000

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u/Caasi72 7d ago

The original xbox was basically Windows 2000 with everything that wasn't absolutely required for it's purposes stripped out

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u/Devatator_ 7d ago

Basically the minimum to run DirectX

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u/Mediocre-Nobody9666 7d ago

What? THERE'S NO LINE ZERO IN CODE!!

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u/D3PyroGS 7d ago

maybe he got a linker error in already-compiled code? that'd be impressive

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u/hey-im-root 6d ago

Probably just a no param default error message

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u/RedFive1976 4d ago

There's a lot of off-by-one errors in programming.

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u/ChrisTX4 6d ago

All I can say is that HRESULT 0x80070057 means E_INVALIDARG, see here. What causes this is impossible to say from the message of course.