larienna,

Your video drivers for your Intel 945 Express are dated 2/15/2008.

Please check Intel's site or your Netbook manufacturer's website to see if there are updated versions of the driver.

Ok, I made some researches and mailed the Intel tech support.

First, this is the latest driver and they will never make any new drivers.

Second I stumbled on an interesting page about shader versions here:

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-014257.htm

since my error message is

"ebug Message: WARNING: Model Batch detected Shader 3.0, but the hardware technique 'HWBatching20' failed to validate."

I thought there might be a problem with the shader version. If I look at the line "Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset Family" it says that the graphic card support shader version 2.0. But the debug message says that version 3 is detected. There is a note at the end of the page that says:

"Intel provides an optimized graphics pipeline for shader processing that is included in Microsoft DirectX*. This can be used by games to provide software (SW) shader processing."

I do not know what it means exactly, it probably looks like some sort of software implementation thought direct X instead of through the driver. That could be the reason why it does not work.

Does the above information helps?

Also, if it does not work, you can try checking the "Cloth Map Only" mode option in the Options screen.  Although not ideal, it may still allow you to play the game.

I can play the game it cloth map without any problems. The only problems is that combat must be resolved with the 3D engine. Else you must auto-battle. But there are a few rare situation where you do not have the option to auto-battle before the combat starts like during quest.

I am currently updating, maybe I'll try it tonight and see if it still crash.