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Every time I try to create a new world, Minetest stops working and I have to close it. Then windows says that it killed Minetest for reasons of Data Execution Prevention.
I have tried solving the issue before, to no avail - adding Minetest to the DEP exceptions list is impossible.
I think this may be a serious problem, guys...

That's weird.

Which version of MT are you using, on which Windows version, and where did you store the MT directory?

Assuming it is not a bug in Minetest, then it is LuaJIT that is executing data. (Well, doh, obviously; that's what JIT does.) So try a non-LuaJIT build if you find no other way.

celeron55 wrote:Assuming it is not a bug in Minetest, then it is LuaJIT that is executing data. (Well, doh, obviously; that's what JIT does.) So try a non-LuaJIT build if you find no other way.

The problem is just that almost all builds use LuaJIT...

Maybe add an exception to the Data Execution Prevention. Windows has a program to do this....

I wonder if disabling UAC (user account control) would fix this.

Calinou wrote:I wonder if disabling UAC (user account control) would fix this.

I don't think so... I think UAC and DEP don't have to do much with each other. And disabling UAC is bad!

webdesigner97 wrote:Maybe add an exception to the Data Execution Prevention. Windows has a program to do this....

That has been tried several times in the past. It is not allowed for some stupid reason.
Oh well, looks like I'll have to hack in as the System user to do it...