Technical problems and solutions!!! (all problems and errors are stored here)

[Haldur]

I just bought the game through Impulse. The game starts up fine, but it crashes at random times -- at the very beginning, when I get the training sword after the gate appears, for example. Once it let me take the sword but crashed after I went through the gate. Once I tried to skip the introduction, and it crashed when I initiated my very first combat.

The errors don't vary much -- the last one I got (when picking up the training sword) was "C:\work\skyfallen\tbm\BMRender\mode.cpp(5509) : DirectX call failed: -1, -1, E_FAIL (An undetermined error occurred inside the Direct3D subsystem)"

I'm running 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium, have an NVidia GeForce GTS 250 video card, and have 4 GB RAM.