Cutscene crashes

[Bram]

The game consistently crashes during the cutscene at the end of Basic Braining (which I eventually fixed by skipping the cutscene) and the beginning of the Brain Tumbler bit (which I don't get the chance to skip before it crashes). I verified the integrity of the game cache, I reinstalled my graphics driver, I turned off V-Sync. When I put the game in compatability mode, any compatability mode, it won't even open. I try to open it from the .exe of the game itself and nothing happens. Is there anything else I can do?

Oh yeah, I'm running Windows 7 64bit with a Nvidia GeForce 310M graphics card.

[Aoi Blue]

There are two possibilities. Since Windows 7 ships without DirectX 9, you are probably running Direct X 9 compatability mode. This is where your Direct X 9 applications are running on the Direct X 10 drivers in a compatability context. Needless to say this does not work on all applications.

You can fetch the Direct X redistributable at Microsoft's site.

The second possible issue is the OpenAL driver.

Try updating your OpenAL driver and/or installing the SoftAL Driver.
Normally OpenAL relies on Windows audio drivers for software emulation of features not able to be performed by your hardware, the SoftAL driver lets those function be done by a more specialized library.

The latest OpenAL drivers can be found at CreativeLabs website:
http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/Forms/AllItems.aspx

The latest SoftAL driver can be found at the SoftAL project page:
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html#download
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