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

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I am experiencing a number of crashes with Penumbra: Overture, which was purchased through Steam. Initially, some of these appeared to be related to where the saves were stored in my Documents folder. Running the game as Administrator appeared to resolve this.

However, I have continued to experience hard crashes during the course of the game. Some of these were worked around by setting the shaders to Very Low. However, it still will inevitably happen, and they seem to be common when loading new areas that are being entered. It appears to be an issue with the material system, and apparently not just specular maps.

I have scoured forums attempting anything and everything, from file integrity checks, to patches, to new executables, to adjusting Windows settings, etc. These have not resolved the issues, and frankly have been a lot more work than should be necessary to get the application to run as intended.

1. Windows 7 64-bit.

2. laptop: HP Elitebook 8740w with a Quadro 5000M graphics card.

3. hpl.log is attached

Thanks for any support you are able to provide. This has really been frustrating, particularly because I had no problems running Amnesia, albeit they're probably using different render tech.