Demo crashes upon starting *PARTLY SOLVED*

[tek01]

Downloaded the demo from steam, It opens up, gives me the messages about gameplay and i adjust gamma than bang crashes.

PC specs are
asus p6t, i7 930, 5870 (catalyst 10.8 drivers), 6gb ram
Running windows 7 64bit ultimate

Little app popus up saying GAME CRASHED READ THIS!!

Amnesia.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in modulate amnesia.exe at 0023:004E6320

with the stack trace following

This is hpl.log (seems as there is no error msg?)

-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20100818114615

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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Setting video mode: 1024 x 768 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Renderer: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Version: 4.0.10061 Compatibility Profile Context
Max texture image units: 16
Max texture coord units: 16
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: 4.00
ShaderModel 2: 1
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 1
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 1
Adding engine materials
Initializing DevIL
Vendor String: Abysmal Software
Version String: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.6.8pre Aug 12 2006
Version Number: 168
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 (Creative SB X-Fi)
1. Generic Software on ATI HDMI Output (ATI High Definition Audio Device)
2. Generic Software on SPDIF Out (Creative SB X-Fi)
3. Generic Software on Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
4. SB X-Fi Audio [EC00](OpenAL default)
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 32
Streaming setup: 4 Buffers x 262144 bytes each
--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Game Module
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Adding engine updates
Initializing script functions
--------------------------------------------------------

User Initialization
--------------------------------------------------------
- DEMO VERSION -
--------------------------------------------------------

Game Running
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Any help appreciated

[Thomas]

First see A.2:
http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3754.html

Then try reinstalling drivers by first uninstalling, rebooting and then installing new. Might be corrupt drivers.

[tek01]

I Have done as suggested but still no go.
Its a new series card (HD5870) so i dont believe it falls into the category of the x series ati cards?

Really want to have a go at this game, and buy the full release on pre-order but wont do so until im able to play it. All my drivers are up to date, bios, windows updates, direct x are all newest releases

Maybe i should try an older driver perhaps? Is there any more info i can give you to help me??

EDIT: Have just confirmed a member of another forum has played it with 10.8 drivers and the same video card so problem must be specific to my computer =(

[tek01]

I Know what is causing the game to crash. Its the menus

I installed the latest drivers 3 times also used driver cleaner to make sure its completely gone but still didnt fix. All graphics low, everything disabled still didnt work. Also downloaded a non steam version of the demo as well with same issue. anyway not important

what i did was. open main_settings.cfg file and changed

<Main ShowMenu="true"
to
<Main ShowMenu="false"

Now it doesnt have the full intro at the start with gamma selection and profile name. It goes straight to the game.
Heres the catch... As soon as i hit "ESC" key it crashes exactly like before
so the game is still not playable

Devs, help please need your expertise! Really hanging to play

PS: Dxdiag.txt is attached just in case
EDIT: Also, pressing the M ley in game is no problem. Its only the escape key menu (assuming there is one)

[Thomas]

Perhaps try these hots fixes:
http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thr...l#pid33637

Also check A.5:
http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3754.html

[tek01]

A.5 is reporting

Renderer: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

so that seems fine, downloading the hotfix but i doubt it would work
EDIT: Yep as suspected, hotfix didnt work, either did latest version of openAL

Perhaps try these hots fixes:
http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thr...l#pid33637

Also check A.5:
http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3754.html