Thank you for the quick answer. It didn\'t help though.

I\'d suggest updating your card drivers:

Installed new drivers - no effect.

ensure that you got all the updates

I ran it just before I started the game. Though I don\'t know what the \"recover mode\" is.

although your error number seems new to me

Error number? Well, the number changes every time. Example: 778CAAD
Shall I get more numbers?

if switching your default skin to the stone one fixes your problem, then that would be the 2nd weirdest fix ever seen.

There was a post about an AccessViolation that suggestet that action.
Tried it again, it did not help.

Time of test:      9.12.2005
OS:                    windows2000 professional servicepack 4
Processor:         AMD Duron
RAM:                  1Gigabyte
Video Card:       Hercules 3D Prophet TV-out
Video Card Memory:      64MB
PS Client Version:          0.3.012 (it did do the same with an older Version a month ago.)
OpenGL or Safe Mode:  (hm, don\'t know.)

Description of the bug:

I can start the game, do the character-creation, load the world.
Then I see my Character in the ingame-menues. The Street and the buildings around look dark, as if it were night.

If I click with the mouse, the light becomes broad daylight, and I get a Message like this:

Something unexpected happended in PlaneShift: Crystal Blue
Details: EXEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 2D43C896
Would you like to save a diagnostic file?

If I do nothing but waiting a view seconds, the light stays dark, but the same Error-Message appeares

Sometimes I\'d click the mouse, nothing happens (and it stays dark) for a view seconds, and then the lights and the ErrorMessage appear at exactly the same time.  

I had the same bug with an older version of PlaneShift about a month ago.
I somewhat hoped that it would run if I waited for the next version.

Well, it never got to run.