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when installed the game in first run i have changed sound hardware option from OFF to ON then restart game and in the startup the game is freeze and i can close only with ctrl+alt+del combination..my sound card is audigy...i cant see any screen, no loading no intro no menu..the game isnt start....i do reinstall but it wasnt correct...

sorry of wrong using of english beaucause i know english a little..

copy from hpl.log

-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------

Creating Engine Modules
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Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating scene module
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating resource managers
Misc Creation
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Init low level graphics
Setting video mode: 800 x 600 - 32 bpp
Init Glee...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Max texture image units: 16
Max texture coord units: 8
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Vertex Program: 1
Fragment Program: 1
NV Register Combiners: 1
NV Register Combiners Stages: 8
ATI Fragment Shader: 0
Creating graphic systems
Creating Renderer2D
Renderer2D created
Creating Renderer3D
Load Renderer3D gpu programs:
Extrude
Diffuse
Fog
Creating fog textures: Solid Additive Alpha
init sky box
Renderer3D created
Creating screen buffers size 800.000000 : 600.000000
Creating programs
RendererPostEffects created
Adding engine materials
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL.
Trying to open hardware device...

Go to My Documents/Penumbra Overture/Episode1 and delete the settings.cfg file, start the game again and it should work.

You can try and update the drivers for the audio card as well, and then try and set sound hardware to true again. Should it crash again, delete the settings.cfg file.

i solved the error with changing the setting.cfg use hardware sound false

but i cant use hardware sound....whyyy???

Get the latest drivers for the audio card and then try hardware sound

i'm using latest drivers

then it's an issue that might be fixed in an upcoming patch.