NiGHTS Into Dreams Keeps Crashing on Startup

[Shrlmptails]

So, I have an HP 17-ak0xx with the following specs:


Radeon Software Version
17.12.1

Radeon Software Edition
Adrenalin

Graphics Chipset
AMD Radeon(TM) R5 Graphics

Memory Type
DDR4

CPU Type
AMD A9-9420 RADEON R5, 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G

But the game keeps Crashing Upon opening. Any help to fix this?

[Mysterio]

Same actually,

I have an AMD Radeon(TM) R9 360 Graphic card and I can confirm that the game does crash when opening the exe file.

The only new information I found in my case is that running the program in administrator runs an infinite loop of asking permission to run. Not sure what the problem is but hopefully it can be fixed soon.

[Bahloogah]

win 10
r9 200 series 4gb gddr5
16gb ram
i7 6700k
Radeon Software Version
17.12.2

crash at boot

[G-Man 79]

also for me, this garbage ist not working!!!
I suggest they change the name of the site to steal instead of steam

[TheXev]

Windows 10 1703
2x Vega 64 (Crossfire disabled)
8GB RAM
i5-6600k
Radeon Software 17.12.1

I have tried running the software in Windows 7 compatibility mode, manually running the launcher, verifying VC 2008 redist is installed, I verified that .NET 3.5 was installed via the Features menu of Windows 10...

If I don't see a fix soon, I'll just refund it. Sux cause I really wanted to play this.

[Silver Dragon]

Faulting application name: Nights.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x50adfe82
Faulting module name: atiumdag.dll, version: 23.20.15007.1005, time stamp: 0x5a36c0b2
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0029c98e
Faulting process id: 0xde0
Faulting application start time: 0x01d383775c104bb1
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\NiGHTS Into Dreams\Nights.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\c0322096.inf_amd64_7ff7d53c3793b9e4\atiumdag.dll
Report Id: 0d5cd949-9f15-48fa-bec7-f5a3af106c81
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Error 1/2/2018 1:11:20 PM Application Error 1000 (100)

[TheXev]

I sent a support request to Sega on this issue and pointed them at this thread. Hopefully we'll see something come of it after the New Year.

[Silver Dragon]

Originally posted by TheXev:

I sent a support request to Sega on this issue and pointed them at this thread. Hopefully we'll see something come of it after the New Year.

Thank you. Let us know if something answers you.

[Silver Dragon]

The problems are not with the game, problems with video driver:
https://community.amd.com/message/2839053#comment-2839053
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/7ncr3y/regarding_amd_and_the_lack_of_directx_9_support_a/

[Shrlmptails]

Originally posted by Silver Dragon:

The problems are not with the game, problems with video driver:
https://community.amd.com/message/2839053#comment-2839053
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/7ncr3y/regarding_amd_and_the_lack_of_directx_9_support_a/

Thank you so much for this info!!

[Silver Dragon]

Originally posted by Shrlmptails:

Originally posted by Silver Dragon:

The problems are not with the game, problems with video driver:
https://community.amd.com/message/2839053#comment-2839053
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/7ncr3y/regarding_amd_and_the_lack_of_directx_9_support_a/

Thank you so much for this info!!

No problems. In technical support of Sega about this, too, no one knew anything.
In general, while AMD solve the problem, if you want to play:
Roll back to the video driver version 17.11.4 or use a device with a video card from NVIDIA (I play on the laptop).

[TheXev]

Yeah, I read on the [H]ardOCP recently about AMD's lack of a response to several DX9 titles being broken. I'll still be following through on Sega tech support on the issue since they did contact me and to at least point this out to Sega as well.

I am pretty much stuck on the 17.12 series of drivers because I also cryptomine when I am not gaming on my machine and want peak mining performance (and I don't want to roll all the way back to the Beta Blockchain driver from August and then listen to Wolfenstein 2 ♥♥♥♥♥ about having old drivers). This is a pretty big bloody nose to AMD if they are going to refuse to fix these DX9 games when they've been doing so much right in the software department lately.

[TheXev]

Okay, I have done some more digging and AMD IS WORKING ON A FIX. All of the reports of AMD not working on a fix for this massive DX9 title issue are erroneous. https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/ pinned comments from twitter on top.

[TheXev]

I also tweeted @CatalystMaker to make AMD aware that NiGHTS is a game they should specfically "add to their list."

[Silver Dragon]

Originally posted by TheXev:

I also tweeted @CatalystMaker to make AMD aware that NiGHTS is a game they should specfically "add to their list."

Great idea.

[TheXev]

Yeah, the official response from Sega Tech support was that this is an AMD issue. Hopefully we'll see a fix soon.