Game Crashes "ATIOGLLXX.DLL"

[iSlak]

I've been running Lugaru for some weeks now with only about 4 crashes to date. Nothing easy to duplicate. Not a big deal to me.

However, starting today, whenever I load a challenge mission on medium difficulty the game crashes typically as soon as I kill an opponent.

I ran the Visual Studio debugger and it gave the following:
"Error: Unhandled exception in Lugaru.exe (ATIOGLLXX.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation".

I've played through every mission a dozen times without a hiccup. Any guesses why the game is spazzing now?

[rudel_ic]

ATIOGLLXX.DLL

-> ATI OpenGL dynamically linked library

Did you, by any chance, update your ATI driver before the game died frequently?

[iSlak]

ATIOGLLXX.DLL

-> ATI OpenGL dynamically linked library

Did you, by any chance, update your ATI driver before the game died frequently?

About five days ago. Only today did it start crashing frequently. I've tried reinstalling but it still crashes.

[rudel_ic]

Try using the previous ATI driver. ATI drivers tend to be broken when they are released. Plus, ATI seems to have problems with OpenGL often.

[iSlak]

I uninstalled the Catalyst 5.8 drivers then installed 5.7. This seems to have solved the crashing problem. Thanks for your help.