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Game crashes shortly after I start it - Saberspark - 10-22-2007 Yeah I installed the game fine but when I went to start it, it would freeze up and something on the bottom that says BlackBox would come up but I can't see what it says. It freezes up anywhere from the typing part to when I choose the difficulty. Specs are: AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ 2.13Ghz 512MB RAM nVIDIA GeForce 6200 256MB OC (overclocked) All of my drivers are updated - I updated them yesterday to make sure that wasn't the problem. Thanks for the help. RE: Game crashes shortly after I start it - Yuhaney - 10-22-2007 Try to install This Patch! RE: Game crashes shortly after I start it - Thomas - 10-22-2007 Try updating sounds drivers and please post the contents of hpl.log, found in My Documents/PEnumbra Overture/Episode 1" Also make sure you uninstalled your old graphic card drivers before installing new ones. RE: Game crashes shortly after I start it - Saberspark - 10-23-2007 "All of my drivers are updated - I updated them yesterday to make sure that wasn't the problem. Thanks for the help. " The sound drivers are already updated. I tried to install the patch but it said "This application has failed to start because SDL.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." (I also got a copy of the error from the BlackBox thing I attached it.) -------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------ Creating Engine Modules -------------------------------------------------------- Creating graphics module Creating system module Creating resource module Creating input module Creating sound module Creating physics module Creating ai module Creating scene module -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Resources Module -------------------------------------------------------- Creating resource managers Misc Creation -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Graphics Module -------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Sound Module -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing OpenAL. Trying to open software device... Failed opening hardware device, using software Device name: Generic Software OpenAL Version Supported: 1.1 Number of channels: 32 -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Game Module -------------------------------------------------------- Adding engine updates Initializing script functions -------------------------------------------------------- User Initialization -------------------------------------------------------- Trying to load vertex program! Success! -------------------------------------------------------- Game Running -------------------------------------------------------- *Thx* RE: Game crashes shortly after I start it - Thomas - 10-23-2007 Uninstall the game, and then reinstall without applying any patch. Try starting the game and if it fails, post hpl.log. Dunno why SDL should not be found except when the installation failed. How did you buy the game btw? By download (and if so from where) or in a box? RE: Game crashes shortly after I start it - Saberspark - 10-23-2007 Okay here's the hpl log. My friend burned me a copy of his. -------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------ Creating Engine Modules -------------------------------------------------------- Creating graphics module Creating system module Creating resource module Creating input module Creating sound module Creating physics module Creating ai module Creating scene module -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Resources Module -------------------------------------------------------- Creating resource managers Misc Creation -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Graphics Module -------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Sound Module -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing OpenAL. Trying to open software device... Failed opening hardware device, using software Device name: Generic Software OpenAL Version Supported: 1.1 Number of channels: 32 -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Game Module -------------------------------------------------------- Adding engine updates Initializing script functions -------------------------------------------------------- User Initialization -------------------------------------------------------- Trying to load vertex program! Success! -------------------------------------------------------- Game Running -------------------------------------------------------- RE: Game crashes shortly after I start it - Thomas - 10-24-2007 So let me get this straight... You come here asking for help not having a legal copy of the game? Afraid I cannot help you any more... RE: Game crashes shortly after I start it - Yuhaney - 10-24-2007 Dude, you think that Developers or someone else here will help you when you don't even have legal copy of the game?