SOMA will not start

[silentspider]

Okay, I will stay away from Steam until then :3 frictionalfan, good luck sorting out your issue!

[frictionalfan]

Hi, I have Windows 7 with intel CORE i3.

I'm having trouble starting SOMA. I think the problem lies with my graphics card. Troubleshooting says the version must be 3.3.0 or more, and I think I have version 3.1.0. Is there no hope for me to play? If anyone has an opinion please let me know. I've been able to play all Frictional games up to this point on my current laptop. I've attached my hpl file.

Thanks!

Please attach the hpl.log file again

My attachments are N/A. I thought I knew what I was doing! I can't seem to attach anything. I think the file is too large.

[nebej]

Try just posting the content of the file as a post

[frictionalfan]

Try just posting the content of the file as a post

Initializing Graphics Module
--------------------------------------------------------
Init lowlevel graphics: -1x-1 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) 1600 x 900 - 32 bpp flags: 3
Setting display mode: 1600 x 900 - 32 bpp 60 hz
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: Intel
Renderer: Intel® HD Graphics Family
Version: 3.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2509
Max texture image units: 16
Max texture coord units: 8
Max texture buffer size: 65536
Max texture array slices: 256
Max user clip planes: 6
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Texture compression: 1
Texture compression S3TC: 1
Texture compression 3DC: 0
Texture sRGB: 1
Geometry Instancing: 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: 1.40 - Intel Build 8.15.10.2509
ShaderModel 2: 1
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 0
Max vertex uniforms: 0
Max fragment uniforms: 1024
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0
Tesselation: 0
MultiBindTex: 0
ERROR: Failed to compile GLSL shader ''!
Shader code:

I think the problem lies in here, but please be the judge! Let me know if I need to add anything else.

[jens]

I think there are newer drivers available, you can try and update the drivers and see if that helps. Follow this guide https://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/th...#pid277038

However, I think it is likely you will not get it to work and if you do the performance will likely be unplayable I am afraid.

[frictionalfan]

I think there are newer drivers available, you can try and update the drivers and see if that helps. Follow this guide https://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/th...#pid277038

However, I think it is likely you will not get it to work and if you do the performance will likely be unplayable I am afraid.

And is this because my drivers are out of date? Or because of my graphics card? I think I've accidentally modified my drivers in the past so I can understand why that might be it.

But even with an update it may not run? Why is this?

[Zenogias]

Hi, I'm having similar problems of not being able to start up the game. All I got was blank screen for 10-20 seconds, then the error message reads: "Soma.exe has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." But that's all I got. I'm using boot camp mac, with windows 7 installed. 64-bit Intel Core Duo CPU, E7600 @ 3.06GHz. Graph Card Ati radeon hd 4670. Please Help.
I tried playing on mac, and it works. But the framerate is so horrible even on the lowest setting. So I'd rather play it on the pc bootcamp version.

[nebej]

I would recommend you playing it on Mac. The graphic card you have might be to old to really work with SOMA on PC

[jens]

I think there are newer drivers available, you can try and update the drivers and see if that helps. Follow this guide https://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/th...#pid277038

However, I think it is likely you will not get it to work and if you do the performance will likely be unplayable I am afraid.

And is this because my drivers are out of date? Or because of my graphics card? I think I've accidentally modified my drivers in the past so I can understand why that might be it.

But even with an update it may not run? Why is this?

Because the card you have is quite old, perhaps 5 years? and is integrated and not very powerful. The game needs OpenGL 3.3 and your card reports it only supports 3.1. Drivers sometimes include updates that increase the OpenGL support, so that is why updating drivers might make the game work. But even when it works it will likely not run very well.

[Hognisig]

Hello i'm exprecing the same problem of not starting no HPL log avaible probably because it can't get that far when i try to launch it by way of .exe i get a message saying :
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0150002). Click OK to close the application.

Things i have done:

Uninstalled, and downloaded again,
verified integrity of game cache.
restarted the PC.
And have all the latest drivers.

PC specs:
Win7
i7-3770
16gb RAM
GTX 680

Any advice is appreciated

Regards,

Högni