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[SOLVED] SOMA - has worked, but now crashes on startup - jgodfrey - 11-29-2015

I have successfully played (quite a lot) of SOMA a few months ago ('ish) on a 64-bit Win7 machine with an AMD HD 7700 GPU. Since that time, the PC has been upgraded to Win 10, but still has the same GPU (with the latest AMD drivers - 15.30.1025).

Now, when I try to start SOMA (upgraded to 1.03), I get only a single dialog stating:

"LoadLibrary failed with error 998: Invalid access to memory location."

Some research seems to indicate this is likely graphics related, but my hpl.log doesn't contain much info. It's pasted in full below.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Jeff

Code:
Version 1.04

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

Creating Engine Modules

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 Creating job manager with 3 threads and 1024 jobs

 Creating graphics module

 Creating system module

 Creating resource module

 Creating input module

 Creating sound module

 Creating physics module

 Creating ai module

 Creating gui module

 Creating generate module

 Creating haptic module

 Creating scene module

 Creating script module

 Creating lipsync module

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Initializing Resources Module

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 Creating loader handlers 

 Creating resource managers

 Adding loaders to handlers 

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Initializing Graphics Module

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Init lowlevel graphics: 1920x1080 bpp:32 rr: 60 fs:0 ms:0 driver: 0 cap:'SOMA Loading...' pos:(-1x-1)

 Available drivers:

  (0) - 'windows'

  (1) - 'dummy'

 Creating window: (-1,-1) 1920 x 1080 - 32 bpp flags: 3

RE: SOMA - has worked, but now crashes on startup - plutomaniac - 11-30-2015

Install the latest AMD drivers from amd.com and not Windows Update or Device Manager.

RE: SOMA - has worked, but now crashes on startup - jgodfrey - 12-01-2015

(11-30-2015, 11:05 PM)plutomaniac Wrote: Install the latest AMD drivers from amd.com and not Windows Update or Device Manager.

I've already done that - prior to the original report. Specifically, I installed this:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows%2010%20-%2064

RE: SOMA - has worked, but now crashes on startup - Mudbill - 12-01-2015

Don't you need the latest beta drivers for AMD?

jeff_godfrey@pobox.com - jgodfrey - 12-01-2015

(12-01-2015, 01:59 AM)Mudbill Wrote: Don't you need the latest beta drivers for AMD?

Errr... The official drivers I installed are only 7 days old (see above link). Definitely newer than the drivers I had several months ago when SOMA worked. Perhaps I'll completely remove the AMD drives and reinstall them from scratch.

Other ideas welcomed.

Thanks.

jeff_godfrey@pobox.com - jgodfrey - 12-01-2015

OK, crisis averted... Completely removing and then reinstalling the same updated drivers seems to have fixed the problem. Not sure what went wrong the first time, but all is OK now.

Thanks.