Hello

I have experienced the same failure. Turning off the "Vertex Buffer Object" option in Pssetup seems to help. In my case the setup crashed also. So I had to open the psclient.cfg file and edit the following line to turn off the option:

Video.OpenGL.UseExtension.GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object = true

Just write false instead of true.

Well, the client works, for now, but Pssetup worked one or two times, and then kept on crashing.

Hello again!

First I want to thank you, Caarrie and Morla, for your support.

Well, the game seems to work again. The last three days there was no "Loading region failed" message in the game world load screen or any other failures. I reinstalled the whole game and the updates and then changed the Vertex Buffer Object option in Pssetup form "on" to "default". I don´t know why it works, or how long it will work, because before the reinstall it seemed to work one or two times, but then failed again, so I am still crossing my fingers everytime the game world loads because I am expecting the message to come back and haunt me again.

How I fixed it: deleted the line with "version name="0.4.01.13"" in the file updaterinfo.xml and ran the updater again. I don't know if it would work for you though.

I´ve tried that. After I updated the game again it did work one day long but the next day it didn´t work again. It somehow screwed up my character. In the tutorial the NPCs always answered that they don´t understand me although I used the correct phrases. I had to delete the character and start a new one.
I recommend to join the game with a new/disposable character the first time after trying Morlas suggestion to be sure if the game works properly.

a 32 mb graphics card is well below the the requirements for the game.

I looked at the System requirements before I installed the game, but forgot about that simply because the game worked very good (at least the tutorial part) until the update on the 21.07.2008. Since the game seems now to be sensitive on the Vertex option, I guess the problem was about the graphics card, although sometimes the failure seemed to occur "randomly".
I play the game now since two days ago in the in-game world and there are no problems so far. The game gets laggy at some objects, like around the Iron temple, or in parts of the Arena, but I expected that. I´ll try to play with some graphics options, maybe I can get a better performance at the cost of some visual quality.
If the failure doesn´t occur anymore, i would say the system requirements are exaggerated, at least the graphics card RAM. If it does, well, thats the way it goes, sometimes you beat the system requirements , sometimes the requirements beat you

Hi!

The problem I still have is a "Loading region failed!" message in the game world loading screen, and it looks like I am not the only one.

A bug report has been already filed on this failure. First read the details and comments in the report. If you experience the same problems, post a comment about it. It will help the developers to fix the problem. You must register to post a comment. If you haven´t done it already, you should read the Bugtracker post before posting. It is recommended to read the BugTracker Guide before using the tracker.
Just click on this mess below, it will bring you directly to the report (sorry, I couldn´t get it better):

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Here are some details of the error I am dealing with:

The first time the failure occured was after I acquired the latest update, version 0.4.01.13 announced on 21.07.2008. It happens only when I log on and try to join the game. It is an intermittent error, sometimes it seems to happen randomly. It seems that it doesn´t matter which region loads.
In the beginning it happened frequently, after I reinstalled the game and set the Vertex Buffer Object option to "default" in Pssetup the failure seems to occur much less frequently, but the problem remains. The "Load all maps" and "Keep maps loaded" options didn´t make any difference.
According to the Latest crashes post there are some unstable regions since the mentioned update. I´ve been to the Sewers and the Arena in Hydlaa. This regions load properly, but the failures may be related, since both came with the update.

Here is the Errorlog produced when the loading of the tutorial world failed.

My system stats are in the sig. I am aware of the fact that my graphics card RAM is well below the system requirements. I doubt that this is the cause of the problem, because when I successfully join the game it works fine, considering that I have low graphics card RAM and a 5-6 year old configuration.