Game Crashes - Amnesia.exe Caused an EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION in module...

[nickh0630]

I recently reformatted my computer and re-installed Windows and now Amnesia seems to crash after 5 - 10 minutes to activity with the following BlackBox error message:

Exception Reason:
Amnesia.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION in module Amnesia.exe at 0023:0148F98B

Has anyone else received this error? I have attached a screenshot of the error message.

[Romulator]

Are you able to post the contents of your hpl.log file? It will help us get an idea of your computer, as well as highlight certain problems you may have within the game.

Since you stated you're on a Windows PC, it should be located at:
C:/Users/<User>/My Documents/Amnesia/Main

[nickh0630]

Are you able to post the contents of your hpl.log file? It will help us get an idea of your computer, as well as highlight certain problems you may have within the game.

Since you stated you're on a Windows PC, it should be located at:
C:/Users/<User>/My Documents/Amnesia/Main

Version 1.31

-------- 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 generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene 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 disp:0 bpp:32 fs:0 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' pos-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 1920 x 1080 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2
Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 353.30
Max texture image units: 32
Max texture coord units: 8
Max user clip planes: 8
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Texture compression: 1
Texture compression S3TC: 1
Auto generate MipMaps: 1
Render to texture: 1
Max draw buffers: 8
Max color render targets: 8
Packed depth-stencil: 1
Texture float: 1
GLSL Version: 4.50 NVIDIA
ShaderModel 2: 1
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 1
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0
Setting up G-Bugger: type: 0 texturenum: 3
Adding engine materials
Initializing DevIL
Vendor String: Abysmal Software
Version String: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.7.8
Version Number: 178
Adding engine post effects
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Software on Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)(OpenAL default)
1. Generic Software on Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
2. Generic Software on Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 32
Streaming setup: 4 Buffers x 262144 bytes each
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Initializing Game Module
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Adding engine updates
Initializing script functions
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User Initialization
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Game Running
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-------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 433 ms
Entities: 74 ms
Compilation: 0 ms
Total: 513 ms
Meshes created: 26
Bodies created: 5
-------- Loading complete ---------
ERROR: Sampler aGoboMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 5
Setting profile: 'Nick' Path: 'C:\Users\Nick\Documents/Amnesia/Main/Nick/'
-------- BEGIN LOAD FROM C:\Users\Nick\Documents/Amnesia/Main/Nick/AutoSave_ArchivesOld_2015_7_5_16_52_49_0.sav ---------
LOADING SAVE GAME!
-------- Loading map '01_old_archives.map' ---------
ERROR: Sampler aDiffuseMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 0
ERROR: Sampler aDiffuseMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 0
Cache Loading: 1032 ms
Entities: 477 ms
Compilation: 15 ms
Total: 1558 ms
Meshes created: 243
Bodies created: 76
-------- Loading complete ---------
WARNING: Could not find player start node ''
ERROR: StartPos '' does not exist!
ERROR: Sampler aNormalMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 1
ERROR: Sampler aNormalMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 1
ERROR: Sampler aDiffuseMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 0
ERROR: Sampler aDiffuseMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 0
-------- END LOAD ---------
ERROR: Sampler aGoboMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 5
ERROR: Sampler aGoboMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 5
ERROR: Sampler aGoboMap does not exist, could not bind it to unit 5
ERROR: Couldn't create SoundEntity 'step_walk_generic_hard.snt'

[plutomaniac]

Do a steam file integrity check or repair the game files.

[nickh0630]

Do a steam file integrity check or repair the game files.

All files successfully validated.

[mohamed]

Well I have the same problem and I don't know what to do can anyone help me please please !!!!!!!