first off, im not a tech support guy, im just a normal joe that is trying to overcome some problems of my own, and not getting any answer.... just thought i might be able to help you out.
Whats the Error Code from the Access violation line?
Also, have you tried turning your sound off in pssetup.exe, the sound is still quite buggy in this game, and on some systems can crash the game, even on loading screen.
Ive found that quite alot of errors can be overcome by setting the games screen resolution to 800x600 and pixel depth to 16bbp and not in fullscreen mode. all this can be done in the pssetup.exe file.
