always crashes after start new game

[deadalive]

hello there

i read throud the forum threads and tried several "solutions" but nothing worked for me, so here is my thread. excuse my bad english, im german.


i had a really annoying time with amnesia since i could not play one time although its quite a time now with me. im a big fan of penumbra, which makes it worse.

i installed it with no problems, i started, did press new game and was listening to the intro. in mid of the intro it did crash. i recognized that i really need 2 gb of ram, 1,5 is not enough

so i went to buy new ram.

but now the intro stotters, i hear clearly "cant be forgotten, must hurry.."
but the (german) subtitle follows first when the new sentencepart is spoken.
after 3 of this sentences the game freezes with black screen, everytime again.

no problem with starting it, can enter the main menu with constant 40 frames, choose my profile, start a new game and then always the avove written happens.

i already did:

reinstall
reinstalled new system drivers (mainboard, omega/catalyst 10.2/11.5,...)
installed the 1.2 patch
modified the graphic settings

my system

amd x2 3800
ati 1800xt 512mb
3 gb ram
win xp mce

i hope there might be a another idea for me..



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Engine build ID 20100818114615

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Setting video mode: 1680 x 1050 - 32 bpp
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Vendor String: Abysmal Software
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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 Hardware on Realtek HD Audio output(OpenAL default)
1. Generic Software on Realtek HD Audio output
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on Realtek HD Audio output'... 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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-------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 2768 ms
Entities: 785 ms
Compilation: 3 ms
Total: 3597 ms
Meshes created: 25
Bodies created: 5
-------- Loading complete ---------
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Game Running
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Setting profile: 'Waldbrand' Path: 'D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\Eigene Dateien/Amnesia/Main//'
-------- Loading map '00_rainy_hall.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 5961 ms
Entities: 8167 ms
Compilation: 45 ms
Total: 14363 ms
Meshes created: 147
Bodies created: 48
-------- Loading complete ---------


file launcher.txt

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Engine build ID 20100819012504

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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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Hardware on Realtek HD Audio output(OpenAL default)
1. Generic Software on Realtek HD Audio output
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on Realtek HD Audio output'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 32
Streaming setup: 2 Buffers x 524288 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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Deleting all sets
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Done with fonts
Done with scripts
Done with particles
Done with sounds
Done with meshes
Done with materials
Done with Gpu programs
Done with images
Destroyed all textures
Done with sound entities
Done with animations
Done with ent files
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Exiting Physics Module
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Deleting game setup provided by user
- Deleting lowlevel stuff.
Physics
Sound
Input
Resources
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Graphics
Haptic
HPL Exit was successful!

[plutomaniac]

the logs doesn't show any crashes. Can you take a picture maybe of the crash?

[Tanshaydar]

Try with the lowest possible settings and see if it still crashes.

[Ocean112]

Your saying your listening to the intro?, Do you mean you can't see anything rofl?,Try possibly lowering the settings or try to get a custom story and try that to see if its the game all together or just the story.
Also it would appear your trying to play the game at a very high res! So i'd say your graphics card can't handle it and it needs to be taken down a bit