Game crashes immediately on startup

[amckinley]

Hi Everybody,

  I recently purchased HammerWatch and cannot get it to run.  I installed the game off of steam as of April 8th with no prior install or data.

Here is the crash data:
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   Hammerwatch.exe
  Application Version:   1.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:   541853d3
  Fault Module Name:   ct_oal.dll
  Fault Module Version:   6.0.300.2015
  Fault Module Timestamp:   52dc82d2
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset:   0000dde4
  OS Version:   6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   5861
  Additional Information 2:   5861822e1919d7c014bbb064c64908b2
  Additional Information 3:   84a0
  Additional Information 4:   84a09ea102a12ee665c500221db8c9d6

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Can anybody help me resolve this?

[amckinley]

I found the solution to my own problem.  This is caused by Creative sound cards on Windows 64 and a proprietary OpenAL dll not found in the System32 folder. To fix this, get this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1rERVsM3PfeQVVnU1RNb3dUcWs/edit?usp=sharing

Read the readme file that comes with it to install it properly.