I cannot run this game. When I do I get a "Apotheon has stopped working" box

I've had no problems running many other games from GOG and Steam. I've tried reinstalling, and I've reinstalled all Visual C++ runtimes (from 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012 & 2013, & both x86 and x64).

Even tried running it as a different user. Same result every time.

I really want to play this, please help.

Running Windows 7 64

Here are the details the crash reporter reports.

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Apotheon.exe
Application Version: 1.1.5511.23248
Application Timestamp: 54cfb9f0
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.18869
Fault Module Timestamp: 556363bc
Exception Code: e0434352
Exception Offset: 0000c42d
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Just tried downloading it from the website directly rather than through galaxy and it works. It even plays through galaxy now. I'm guessing the galaxy download is different somehow.

I had this issue as well. Was really worried that my windows install was becoming corrupt. Looks like it's not on my end and GoG Galaxy is pulling from a corrupt file. I downloaded from the main site and it works fine now, can also confirm it now runs in Galaxy after main site install. Thanks for finding a workaround and posting it!

I'm happy this helped someone. I did try to mark my second post as a solution but for some reason there's no option to mark your own posts like this.

That work for me, too. Thank you.

I don't know if I should post this here as a solution, but when installed from galaxy, it didn't install the XNA_40 from the redist folder in the game folder, so it wouldn't start. So I just installed it manually, and it fixed it, (also fixed Tropico 3 in the process, which also wouln't start cause it was missing directx9 dlls).