Sacred 2 vers. 2.43 causing game to crash

[TheRenegadeMarine 1]

so last night I dl'ed an installed 2.43 from 2.40 and since then, any time I start the game, it runs for maybe 5 minutes and then crashes. any ideas?

 

Right now im running it on my laptop with Win7x64, 4gigs ram

 

game ran fine with 2.40 so I have NO idea what's going on

 

*edit* Heres the actual error report off of my last crash, if someone can help me decipher this, it would be greatly appreciated

 

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: sacred2.exe

Application Version: 2.43.0.0

Application Timestamp: 4a4c9668

Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll

Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bdbdf

Exception Code: 80000003

Exception Offset: 000122a1

OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: 0a9e

Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Additional Information 3: 0a9e

Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

 

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Edited December 22, 2009 by gogoblender

[TheRenegadeMarine 1]

**UPDATE**

 

I just reinstalled and patched to 2.40 and everything works fine now.....2.43 is SATAN!!11

[Spunky 16]

Satan you say, can't be much wrong then

[Knuckles 904]

You might want to give this a look too

 

http://forum.sacredeng.ascaron-net.com/sho...ead.php?t=65482

[TheRenegadeMarine 1]

its still doin I, now I cant even load my toons....I am extremely butthurt now..... what should I do?

[TheRenegadeMarine 1]

After a week of re-downloading 2.40 repeatedly, I finally got it to work, hopefully the patch after 2.43 is more Win7 friendly