HELP! "Non-Surface" Error in TENSION!!

[Xzol]

Hey, I'm having a serious problem getting Hotline Miami to play beyond Chapter 4. It works pretty good with the previous chapters, but as soon as I leave the stage, the scoreboard doesn't show up. However, the message "NEW WEAPON UNLOCKED" appears and I try to click it. This is the message I receive, causing the game to crash:
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ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object objScoreDetails:

Trying to use non-existing surface.
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Up to this point, I have done the following to make the game playable:

*Disabled the "Print Spool" service
*Turned off the "SURFACE" option and the "CLEAR BLOOD" option to on
*Installed and used the "vcredist_x86.exe"
*Re-Installed Hotline Miami (2x)
** Used the Beta-Update for Hotline Miami (When I used the Hotline Miami launcher included in the update, the game didn't launch at all! So this led me to revert the Beta-Update...)

And so far, none of these options have worked in getting rid of the error. Also, here are the system specs for my Operating System, -- Windows XP:

*2.79 GHz, 1.99 Gigabytes of RAM
*52.7 Overall GB capacity of the computer
-37.9 GB used
-14.7 GB of free space

I tried reporting this issue to the support team 2 weeks ago, but they haven't responded at all. Because of this, I bring this issue to you guys, hoping that you may have a solution to this problem. I really want to get back to the murderfest... =(