BeamNG.drive crashes on the "checking integrity window"

I recently downloaded BeamNG.drive because I really miss it.
So once the download and installation were both completed, I lauched BeamNG.drive as normal, by the shortcut icon.
I have Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 both installed and also DX11. This is what happened:

 

No, I haven't even got a BeamNG folder in the documents...

 

i have the same problem. i have tried deleting the entire \document\beamng.. and still wont work. I'm with windows Vista too. maybe thats our problem!!!

 

Just downloaded it and got the same problem here. Running Windows Vista 32 bit and starting the game through Steam.

Edit: attempted to start the .exe directly from the folder and got this error message:

 

Re: BeamNG.drive crashes on the "checking integrity window"

Yes, the OS may be the cause of the crash, but I am using SP2, it is similar to 7, so it should work... Remember when my pc melted the GPU? That pc was Vista as well, but BeamNG.drive could run there.

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Same thing happens when I launch BeamNG.drive from Steam.

 

Yeah, well I found a document from MS (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683219(v=vs.85).aspx, section Remarks) from which I infer that the problem is in an invalid function call to K32GetProcessMemoryInfo which simply isn't defined as such in Windows versions below 7.

I hope someone finds this useful.

 

So, what can I do to sort it out?

 

Well, at this point, we can only hope that one of the programmers sees this.

 

Well the general solution is migrate to windows 7, especially considering the minimum requirement is listed as 7 not vista.

 

I've had this game since pretty close to the beginning and only recently have I encountered this problem. (Also Vista user the whole time). Spending upwards of 100+ dollars to fix, until recently, a non existent problem would be asking way too much to keep playing a single game (despite how much I happen to enjoy it).

 

Especially considering that this sort of problem can probably be fixed by running a single regex search-and-replace over the source code.

 

How would you know that the issue can be patched around so easily, how do you know thats the only thing preventing windows vista compatibility, why even bother supporting an OS that is barely supported elsewhere and has one of the smallest market shares? Why still use the thing even when 7 upgrades were 25 bucks for awhile.

 

I would appreciate if you could curb your unsubstantiated anger.

A more thorough dependency analysis has revealed that there are a number of references to Windows 7-specific functions in 0.4.2.0. Quoting the wiki page on Requirements:

I had inferred that this means Vista is excluded from the not-working list (else it should read "Vista or below"). I'd like to learn what's the official stance on version compatibility.

 

Just to help out, this is the error:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: BeamNG.Drive.x86.exe
Application Version: 0.4.2.0
Application Timestamp: 55fc24e8
Fault Module Name: KERNEL32.dll!K32GetProcessMemoryInfo
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.19454
Fault Module Timestamp: 55ae6da5
Exception Code: c0000139
Exception Offset: 0006f40f
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 9d13
Additional Information 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Additional Information 3: 9d13
Additional Information 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8

 

On my pc I have got 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G and an Intel Pent. T3200 (2.0 GHz, dual core). So the only issues should be the OS and the GPU.

 

Unless this is an AMD problem, it would seem that cpu / gpu are not the culprit since my computer specs easily handle this game.

 

Or you could read the messages above where the issue has already been attributed to an incompatibility with vista. Seems the game is attempting to do something that Microsoft didn't add until windows 7