Crash upon loading game world

[snakeater]

Sorry to contribute to the crash threads, the games fantastic, but here we go...

First installed the game, ran fine, next day, crashes with the famous 'send error report' box while loading a save. Reinstalling fixed it. Now, 4 days later, reinstalling no longer fixes it...
All drivers up to date.

-------- 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 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: 1680 x 1050 - 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
Fog
Creating fog textures: Solid Additive Alpha
init sky box
Renderer3D created
Creating screen buffers size 1680.000000 : 1050.000000
Creating programs
RendererPostEffects created
Adding engine materials
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL.
Trying to open hardware device... Success!
Device name: SB X-Fi Audio [8C00]
OpenAL Version Supported: 1.1
Number of channels: 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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Trying to load vertex program!
Success!
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Game Running
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Loading collada for 'maps/level01_13_A_iron_mine_shafts.dae' took: 1859 ms
WARNING: Bone 'joint4' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint5_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint9_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint30_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint35_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint17_joint18_joint19_joint20' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint13_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint25_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint40_joint18_joint19_joint20' 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 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: Geometry for joint child '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Geometry joint parten '' is missing! Might be connected to bone.
WARNING: Bone 'joint4' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint5_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint9_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint30_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint35_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint17_joint18_joint19_joint20' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint13_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint25_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint40_joint18_joint19_joint20' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint4' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint5_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint9_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint30_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint35_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint17_joint18_joint19_joint20' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint13_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint25_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint40_joint18_joint19_joint20' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint4' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint5_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint9_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint30_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint35_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint17_joint18_joint19_joint20' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint13_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint25_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint40_joint18_joint19_joint20' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint4' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint5_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint9_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint30_joint10_joint11_joint12' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint35_joint6_joint7_joint8' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint17_joint18_joint19_joint20' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint13_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint25_joint14_joint15_joint16' is not attached to skin!
WARNING: Bone 'joint40_joint18_joint19_joint20' is not attached to skin!

From this, I can tell that the game world loads, and indeed when it crashes with the dialouge box I can hear the game sometimes actually running.

Any help would be appriciated, thanks!

EDIT:

restarting the PC after the uninstall seems to work; but the game still needs to be re-installed after several start ups o.O

[MercenaryForHire]

The next time this happens, try deleting the contents of /redist/core/cache and see if that fixes it before a reinstall.

[jens]

Delete the settings.cfg file in My Documents/Penumbra Overture/Episode1

And then try and run the game with audio in software mode and not hardware mode, there are some problems with audio hardware at the moment (in particular with X-Fi cards) and it's being looked into. Hope that makes it more stable!

[snakeater]

The deleting cache thing seems to work...

thanks for the replies!