Overture Crashes when starting New Game

[Enigma]

No matter what I do, I cannot get Overture to run. I purchased it via Steam. The menus run fine through to the intro video when starting a new game. Then I hear the sound of the level starting (music and sound effects keep running just fine), but the screen is completely black. When I click I get the message that the game is not responding and have to kill it.

I'm running Vista with a Nvidia 8600M GT with latest drivers. I've tried just about everything I can think of, including changing the hardware sound mode, verifying the game files, and manually installing OpenAL.

Any ideas?

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I did a bit more poking around and found the hpl file with several errors. I can't make heads or tails of it, but maybe someone else can.

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-------- 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: 1440 x 900 - 32 bpp
Init Glee...OK
Setting up OpenGL
  Max texture image units: 32
  Max texture coord units: 8
  Two sided stencil: 1
  Vertex Buffer Object: 1
  Anisotropic filtering: 1
  Max Anisotropic degree: 16
  Multisampling: 1
  Vertex Program: 1
  Fragment Program: 1
  NV Register Combiners: 1
  NV Register Combiners Stages: 8
  ATI Fragment Shader: 0
Creating graphic systems
  Creating Renderer2D
  Renderer2D created
  Creating Renderer3D
   Load Renderer3D gpu programs:
    Extrude
    Diffuse Vertex
    Diffuse Fragment
    Fog
   Creating fog textures: Solid Additive Alpha
   init sky box
  Renderer3D created
Creating screen buffers size 1440.000000 : 900.000000
Creating programs
CG ERROR : The compile returned an error.
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core/programs/PostEffect_Motion_fp.cg(32) : error C5013: profile does not support "for" statements and "for" could not be unrolled.
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CG: Error loading: 'core/programs/PostEffect_Motion_fp.cg'!
ERROR: Couldn't create program 'PostEffect_Motion_fp.cg'
Dynamic loops in motion blur fp not supported, loading static instead.
  RendererPostEffects created
Adding engine materials
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL.
  Trying to open software device... Success!
  Device name: Generic Software
  Number of mono sources: 32
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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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WARNING: Language entry 'EventKeyInNoPower' in category '01_10_small_shaft' already exists!
Initializing Penumbra: Overture Episode 1
  Version    $Rev: 1789 $
  Date    $Date: 2007-11-13 03:43:19 +0100 (ti, 13 nov 2007) $
Trying to load vertex program!
Success!
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Game Running
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Loading collada for 'maps/level00_01_boat_cabin.dae' took: 693 ms
WARNING: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry  joint parten '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry  joint parten '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry  joint parten '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry  joint parten '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry  joint parten '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry  joint parten '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Bone 'joint1' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry  joint parten '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry  joint parten '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
ERROR: Child body 'joint1' for joint 'sjoint2' in mesh 'boat_dynamicparaffin.dae' does not exist!
ERROR: Cannot find sub entity 'parrafinlight_joint1' in mesh 'boat_dynamicparaffin.dae'
Loading map 'level00_01_boat_cabin.dae' took: 4411 ms

[jens]

Make sure you really uninstall the current graphics driver and then reboot and install the latest driver you could find for the card. I know this sounds unnecessary but the problem you describe is exactly like a driver issue and sometimes drivers are corrupted and the only way to make sure all files are remove on a re-install is to do it like this.