Penumbra: Overture mid-game crash - JENS TAKE A LOOK PLEASE

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Everything seems to be fine with Amnesia, the game runs fine and the Quadro card is being used properly.

1) Let's try deleting your configuration files. Go to Documents\Penumbra Overture\Episode1\ and delete all .cfg files and try the game again (basically delete everything except the saves).

2) The latest Nvidia Quadro drivers are 314.07. Make sure you have them installed and not the default OEM ones that come with the laptop. Select clean installation during setup too. If the drivers are indeed at version 314.07, then make sure that the nvidia control panel is not changed in any way. Leave it at defaults when it comes to Penumbra and Amnesia and change any settings in-game.

3) If the above don't solve the problem, there might be a problem with old files that were created during the time that you didn't run the game with administrator privileges. Go to C:\Users\-YOUR-USER-NAME-\AppData\Local\VirtualStore and delete everything Penumbra-related. That means Documents and Program Files (steam folder). If you don't know how to do that then just rename the folder VirtualStore to VirtualStore_TEST and try running the game again as an administrator.

All the .cfg files were deleted and I used the drivers you specified (although, the NVidia applet said that revision 310 was the latest when I ran it). There was nothing related to Steam or Penumbra in my VirtualStore folder - just a system folder for software that came with the machine. Unfortunately, nothing changed when I turned the shaders from Very Low to Low. The game still crashed within a few minutes of loading.

On a side note, Penumbra: Black Plague appears to work fine. I did initially experience a crash with that, as well. But it appears that that particular issue was related solely to file rights in the My Documents folder.