So I figured out where I can acess setting for the AMD graphics card (I had to reinstall a driver and a setting overview program, Chatalyst).

But when I tried launching the game to see if there's a difference, the game did launch, but a few second later I got some kind of Unity loading screen that managed to crash the game and I got a "Decay of Logos gas stopped working." message. :(
That's the crash I get via GOG Galaxy.

I've tried launching the game via it's .exe in the installation folder and it crashes if I launch it normally - Unity doesn't even show up - or if I launch it with administrator privilages - Unity launches and the game crashes.

I'll provide what details I can and if you decide you'd rather make the game better for those that can run it within the suggested hardware range, I'll understand. :) I can always return to an improved game after I finally upgrade my potato.

Decay of Logos is the only program with this error.

I don't get any messages from Unity, it does some kind of loading - I can't switch to the loading window to take a proper look because the fullscreen Decay of Logos window won't let me see anything else - and then I get a message from Windows "Decay of Logos has stopped working." and I can only click "close the program".

I checked what Event Viewer Application log had to say, but I had to translate some things from Slovene into English and what I saw as the original was somewhat strange.
I did the best I could, but some of it might be off.


Here's what Event viewer said:

1. Information - Source: Windows error reporting, event ID: 1001, task category: none
- "General
Storage tank of errors 2057488654728562035, row 4

Event name: APPCRASH

Reaction: Not available

ID of the cabinet: 0

Signature of the problem:

P1: Decay of Logos.exe

P2: 2018.4.1.50212

P3: 5ce6f059

P4: d3d11.dll

P5: 6.3.9600.18437

P6: 57acad42

P7: c0000005

P8: 0000000000112e17

P9:

P10:

Attached files:

C:\Users\Wolfy\AppData\Local\Temp\WER615.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

Thsese files might be available here:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_Decay of Logos.e_57e63efded5f5426f3e629d6a5d0aad8cb2a5f6_12b61f30_172f1b71

Symbol of analysis:

Renewed search of the solution: 0

Report's ID: 7cda6ed1-6a92-11ea-8326-28d2447ebac6

State of the report: 0

Storage tank dispersion: c31543029960c12c3c8dab07ca7e0573"


2. Error - Source: Application error, event ID: 1000, task category: (100)

- General
"Wrong name of the program: Decay of Logos.exe, version: 2018.4.1.50212, time stamp: 0x5ce6f059

Wrong module name: d3d11.dll, version: 6.3.9600.18437, time stamp: 0x57acad42

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Wrong offset: 0x0000000000112e17

Wrong ID of the process: 0x15bc

Wrong start time of the program: 0x01d5fe9f32db13ea

Wrong program path: C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Decay of Logos\Decay of Logos.exe

Wrong path to the module: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\d3d11.dll

Report's ID: 7cda6ed1-6a92-11ea-8326-28d2447ebac6

Wrong full name of the package:

Wrong ID of the program, related to the package:"

- Details:
"- System

- Provider

[ Name] Application Error

- EventID 1000

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 100

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2020-03-20T10:06:39.000000000Z

EventRecordID 120781

Channel Application

Computer Pc

Security

- EventData

Decay of Logos.exe

2018.4.1.50212

5ce6f059

d3d11.dll

6.3.9600.18437

57acad42

c0000005

0000000000112e17

15bc

01d5fe9f32db13ea

C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Decay of Logos\Decay of Logos.exe

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\d3d11.dll

7cda6ed1-6a92-11ea-8326-28d2447ebac6"


P.S. I could try to fetch the logs mentioned by Event Viewer if it'd be of help.

Again if it's salvageable, yay; if not, I'll understand. :)

I tried both the "vertify/repair" option in Galaxy and completely uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but nither worked.

By the looks of it, my laptop can't run the game anymore. :(

Still a big thank you to the developers for taking a look at the issues I had with the game even if my laptop was below the minimum requirements to run it. The nearly 10 hours I did have with the game were nothing short of awesome and I look forward to returning to the game after I get a better laptop. :D

Best of luck with future development. :)

This is getting stranger by the minute. XD

I went back to version 1.3 since the game previously worked fine with it and I still get the same thing: Unity launches, loads for a bit and the game chrashes.

I also tried rolling back the game all the way to version 1.0 and the same thing happens.
I was finally able to see the full heading of the Unity window, though: "Unity 2018.41f1_b7c424a951c0".
I also got a pop-up window before Unity launched this time, something about the ADM card or something related to it: "AMD has chrased and recovered".

So I used a "clean wipe" AMD program to unistall all the drivers for the AMD graphics card since the AMD folder was a mess.
Then I made sure to update to the latest driver, even the 1.7.7 optional one.

So far AMD has not detected Decay of Logos on the list of aplications.
As strange as it seems, my "better" graphics card interfering with the game might be the issue; or the previous mess of drivers. Not sure.

In any case, tha game works again with the latest version too. :D

My sincere aplogies for wasting the developers' time on something that was my fault. :(

You're welcome and that's alright, I appreciate you trying and I'm aware you can't make a miracle with old hardware. :)

I only found one .txt file (output_log) and apparently I can't add it as an attachment on GOG's forum. I get a "wrong file type" message.
Do you have an email I can send it to?
If you'd prefer, you can also send me a friend request and we can work out the details via GOG's chat.

In case it's useful to other players, your safe files can also be found in the same folder (\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Amplify Creations\Decay of Logos\).

Very well, sent. :)

Glad to hear it. :)

Useful clues nonetheless.
I've yet to spot anything useful in the Intel HD's settings (all it does let me do is "brighten/darken video" and similar settings that I'm not sure what to do with, but they shouldn't have any impact on games), so I doubt there's anything I can do about it.
For now I'll try to make sure the AMD card doesn't interfere with the game since it seems to be the most likely suspect for causing the crash.
I'd rather play the game on minimal settings than not at all.

At least I'll know what to look out for, thank you very much. :D