Penumbra Overture crashes: Openal Problem

[Esquizofrenico]

Hi. I bought recently the Penumbra series for Windows and when I try to initiate any of the game the screen goes black and then it comes back to the desktop and a error message pops up saying:

"Failed! Check your OpenAl Installation"


The hpl file at "Documents/Penumbra Overture/Episode1" says this:

-------- 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 gui module
Creating haptic 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: 3
Max texture coord units: 4
Two sided stencil: 0
Vertex Buffer Object: 0
Anisotropic filtering: 0
Multisampling: 0
Vertex Program: 0
Fragment Program: 0
NV Register Combiners: 0
NV Register Combiners Stages: 11
ATI Fragment Shader: 0
Creating graphic systems
Creating Renderer2D
Renderer2D created
Creating Renderer3D
Load Renderer3D gpu programs:
Extrude
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'ShadowExtrude_vp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'ShadowExtrude_vp.cg' program! Shadows will be disabled.
Diffuse Vertex
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'Diffuse_Color_vp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'Diffuse_Color_vp.cg'
Diffuse Fragment
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'Diffuse_Color_fp.cg'
Fog
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'Fog_Solid_vp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'Fog_Solid_vp.cg'
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'Fog_Solid_fp.cg'
Creating fog textures: Solid Additive Alpha
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'refract_vp.cg'
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'refract_fp.cg'
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'refract_special_fp.cg'
Refraction will not be supported!
init sky box
Renderer3D created
Creating screen buffers size 800.000000 : 600.000000
ERROR: Couldn't create screenbuffer!
Creating programs
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_Blur_vp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'PostEffect_Blur_vp.cg'!
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_Blur_Rect_fp.cg'
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_Blur_2D_fp.cg'
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_Bloom_vp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'PostEffect_Bloom_vp.cg'!
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_Bloom_fp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'PostEffect_Bloom_fp.cg'!
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_Motion_vp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'PostEffect_Motion_vp.cg'!
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_Motion_fp.cg'
Dynamic loops in motion blur fp not supported, loading static instead.
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_Motion_staticloop_fp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'PostEffect_Motion_fp.cg'!
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_DoF_vp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'PostEffect_DoF_vp.cg'!
Could not find a working profile for cg file ''!
CG ERROR : The profile is not supported.
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_DoF_fp.cg'
ERROR: Couldn't load 'PostEffect_DoF_fp.cg'!
RendererPostEffects created
Adding engine materials
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL.
Trying to open software device... FATAL ERROR: Failed! Check your OpenAL installation

I could really use some help. Thanks

[plutomaniac]

http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/D...alinst.zip