Penumbra: Overture crash. OpenAL

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He isn't the only one with the issue...

I'll do one better. I just got the " Penumbra Collector Pack" from steam and installed it onto my system; as soon as I did and let it update as necessary I clicked on overture to check it out and bang crash to desktop with this error:


I tried the other 2 games as well and I get the same result....

My system is up to date, I have the latest drivers for everything... here are my specs through speccy:



I am 100% sure my 8800 GT cards can use vertex shaders >.<

EDIT: here is the HPL log....