Instant CTD on Launch

[kthln]

I'd like to say up front that I'm 99% sure that this is an issue with my video card hating OpenGL, as I've had similar issues with other programs. Oh, and placing a CPU version of OpenGL in the install folder makes it at least start, but with unplayable lag (I assume that this is due to lol CPU OpenGL).

Now then, on the off chance that it is actually fixable:
Whenever I launch FTL it immediately crashes. I'm on a laptop (Windows 7 64-bit) with an ATI 5870 Mobility card, and the drivers are unfortunately unable to be updated easily. There is apparently a way to do it that involves flashing the BIOS, but I'm not super eager to try that.

Crash log:

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Version =  1.01 

Last Player Ship 

 

Last Enemy Ship 

 

Last Event Text = 

Stack Trace: 

1 - 0x6903b212 DrvSwapBuffers
2 - 0x6b0eb0f3 wglSwapMultipleBuffers
3 - 0x6b0eb1a9 wglSwapMultipleBuffers
4 - 0x6b0ec6a4 wglGetProcAddress
5 - 0x6b0f5658 wglGetPixelFormat
6 - 0x6b0f5dd4 wglDescribePixelFormat
7 - 0x6b0f6559 wglChoosePixelFormat
8 - 0x763558a7 ChoosePixelFormat
9 - 0x68132e25 SDL_RegisterApp
10 - 0x68135b5b SDL_RegisterApp
11 - 0x6812bbb5 SDL_SetVideoMode
12 - 0x004050e3
13 - 0x00405422
14 - 0x00405d94
15 - 0x005a133b
16 - 0x005a13f8

Edit: Slight update, downloading mobility drivers and then extracting the OpenGL .dll and placing it in the game folder works slightly better than using the CPU version, still too laggy to actually play. Still starts, at least.

[Matthew]

Hello. With that crash log and the ATI mobile video card range, we've had nearly a 100% fix rate by just uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers. Instructions if you need them:

Uninstall them: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... ivers.aspx

Reinstall/update them for Windows 7:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... dows7.aspx

Someone today emailed saying they'd updated their drivers last week and this still worked for them. I have no explanation as to why.

[kthln]

I uninstalled video drivers, ran driver sweeper, then reinstalled them and unfortunately it still does not work.

Edit: Oh wow I just realized that I spelled the title wrong. I'm an idiot.