Says Vista: "Hinterland Application has stopped working"

[StCuervo]

I read some interesting reviews and downloaded the game from direct2drive but I haven't been able to start a game. :(

I'm able to create to create a character but then it crashes while it is "creating world." The problem details Vista gives me are:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Hinterland.exe
Application Version: 1.0.1030.1215
Application Timestamp: 4909ddc5
Fault Module Name: atiumdag.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.14.10.496
Fault Module Timestamp: 46157535
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00015836
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 4b69
Additional Information 2: 746051e6625d81211097ef059b28e929
Additional Information 3: 63ec
Additional Information 4: 53f76268d3e0312b4e6d7af8554bd166

I've updated video and sound drivers and DirectX. I've uninstalled Hinterland, defragged, and re-installed it. I realize I should have some more free space on my HD but that realistically isn't going to happen and I've been able to play system-intensive games like Fallout3 and buggy games like Gothic3 with no problems. Nothing seems to work for Hinterland though.

My dxdiag report is below. Any ideas?

[mouse]

Your video and sound drivers are almost 2 years old they need to be updated to at least mid 2008. When you say you updated DX did you updated DX 9c which is needed to play the game which adds files to DX 10. If you updated DX 10 that wouldn't help you to play the game. After you've made the updates then try to run the game as admin.

[StCuervo]

Strange. When I click "Control Panel" -> "Device Manager" and right click on the devices, Vista says all the drivers in quesion are up-to-date. I will try to find updates some other way. I've tried to run the game as admin but it didn't work...

[mouse]

The method you used to check for new drivers will never work to get new drivers. To find new drivers you need to go to your system builder web site check under your model number for updated drivers. If your system builder doesn't provide new drivers you need to go to the hardware builders web site to get new drivers.
You also need to go to MS DX web site to download and install DX 9c all thos things need to be done before you attempt to run the game as admin.

[StCuervo]

Well thank you for your help but I was unsuccessful. I found new drivers at the maufacturer website, downloaded and installed them, but no dice...

[Manni]

try this ATI driver for your mobility-thing:

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/firepro-vista32.html

it is from Nov. 12, 2008 I bet you haven`t got that :D

In case you didn`t know..........looks like you have a virtual Drive: D there which might disturb the copy-protection.......

find the additional directX 9 needed here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=886acb56-c91a-4a8e-8bb8-9f20f1244a8e

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition ; Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003, Web Edition; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 Datacenter; Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V; Windows Server 2008 Standard; Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V; Windows Small Business Server 2003 ; Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium; Windows Small Business Server 2008 Standard ; Windows Vista; Windows Vista 64-bit Editions Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Business N; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Basic; Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Basic N; Windows Vista Home Premium; Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Starter; Windows Vista Starter N; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows Web Server 2008; Windows XP; Windows XP 64-bit; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Home Edition N; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional N; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Service Pack 3; Windows XP Starter Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

[StCuervo]

I found that ATI driver the other day, it is what I'm using now. But thanks for trying to help me.

I will try to disable the virtual drive and see if that works.