Pre-Main Menu crash.

[Lyon]

Okay, here's the deal. I bought Penumbra Black Plague from Direct 2 Drive, installed it without a hitch, activated it, all the usual mumbo jumbo. Then I tried to play it. Here's what happened. I got the Paradox and Frictional Games logos fading in, then fading out. And *then*, what I assumed was supposed to be the game's main logo fading in was, in fact, a large, white box. Then the game crashed with the "black box" message of: "Penumbra.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module", whatever the hell *that* means. It also says "Penumbra.exe at 001B:004EAB42" which, of course, tells me nothing. My graphics card is the Nvidia 8800 GT, and I have up to date sound and graphics drivers. Not only that, but I am unable to find any trace of a similar problem on this forum. As a side note, Overture worked perfectly first time, not a problem.

So, please, I would appreciate some help