HP dv7-6c23cl w/Radeon HD 6620g won't open project

I have a HP Pavilionn dv7-6c23cl 64 bit notebook with 16gigs Ram and AMD Radeon HD 6620g graphics. I'm running windows 8 64bit.

Installed Construct2-r119 choosing auto os detect, then again choosing 64 bit os.

I also attempted to update the video driver by 1st) using the driver update in device driver manager. 2) I also attempted to download a later driver from Amd. 3) I eventually got a driver from HP that appears older, installed that. Same problem.

The install runs fine, but when I start C2 it runs and displays the start screen. It's when I file->new or file->load a project that c2 hangs.

FYI I installed c2 on a Samsung tablet running win8pro. Seems to work OK on that. I can create a new project and load existing. It's not my choice for development though.

Any ideas?

which project are you trying to open... projects are not backguard compatible, if that was made with version 120 it won't open.

there is a post somewhere in the forums about modifying the files to be opened in previous versions.

Also if that project (caproj, capx) uses a third party plugin that you don't have installed, it wont open either

We have this problem a lot, and it's *always* the graphics card driver crashing. There's nothing we can do to fix it from C2; it's your graphics card manufacturers fault. If the very latest drivers don't work, try the beta drivers - if they don't work, you need to take the problem to the manufacturer.