Dark Descent crashes on startup

[demented]

when i attempted to start game the very first time, some window popped up, reporting a problem of some sort, with drop down selection boxes and what not, i think. i ignored and tried to start again. now the launcher stuff popped up, i selected other settings and such, getting same crash every time, the first timer window never showed again. I tried reinstaling the game, changing various game and system settings.


log is attached and also pasting here just in case:

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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: 1280x800 disp:0 bpp:32 fs:1 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' pos:(-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 1280 x 800 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
  Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
  Renderer: RADEON XPRESS 200M Series SW TCL x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE2
  Version: 1.4.5524 WinXP Release
  Max texture image units: 16
  Max texture coord units: 8
  Max user clip planes: 6
  Two sided stencil: 1
  Vertex Buffer Object: 0
  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: 4
  Max color render targets: 4
  Packed depth-stencil: 0
  Texture float: 0
  GLSL Version: 1.10
  ShaderModel 2: 1
  ShaderModel 3: 0
  ShaderModel 4: 0
  OGL ATIFragmentShader: 1

[Mudbill]

That GPU is very old and might not be able to run the game. It also says GLSL Version 1.10 where Amnesia requires at least 2.0. You can update your drivers but that's all I can suggest. Check out the Graphics Card Troubleshooting Guide with AMD/ATI cards.

Read this: https://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-24129.html

[demented]

That GPU is very old and might not be able to run the game. It also says GLSL Version 1.10 where Amnesia requires at least 2.0. You can update your drivers but that's all I can suggest. Check out the Graphics Card Troubleshooting Guide with AMD/ATI cards.

Read this: https://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-24129.html

i did try those stuffs. maybe would have helped 5 years ago, when amnesia was released and winxp was still the thing. now its no longer supported in too many places. i cant get any driver updates or anything. i guess ill just stick to watching playthroughs on youtube.