Crashing Upon Starting New Game

So every time I attempt to start a new game, it loads for a bit with a black screen, then the planet loads in saying, select the green mark to spawn in blah blah blah, shortly after the planet loads, (1 - 10 seconds) the game becomes unresponsive and crashes saying, an unexpected error has cause the application to close. No idea what or why. I have set the priority for the PA.exe to high.

turn off crossfire.

you're welcome.

also get latest drivers from ati.com

and why are you on windows 32bit? you know students get free licences of whatever they want?

the fact that i have 32-bit is a whole different problem i know, i'm simply too stupid to replace it with a copy of 64-bit that i have. and i also have no idea what you mean when you say crossfire

you have two graphic cards no?

yes i do have 2 cards

CrossFire do not affect PA, it's not work at all in windowed applications.

You should find a way to do that because at moment you just waste your computer performance.

But right now just download and install latest drivers from here:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows 7 - 32

Is there a way to go from 32 bit to 64 bit without wiping my hard drive? because i try to install it and it just says that my hard drive has the incorrect partition type.

You only have one partition on your HDD, so I don't think you can just install 64-bit Windows on top of 32-bit.
Most likely you'll need to format it.

You can as well do it this way:

1. Try to remove everything you actually don't need.
2. Boot with any HDD management tool.
3. Reduce size of your main partition without formatting it.
   
4. Create new NTFS partition within freed space.
5. Boot back to Windows and copy all important data to new partition.
6. Now boot Windows install, format your old partition and install 64-bit OS.

But if you don't sure how it's work better buy some USB HDD and backup important information on it.

alright thanks, Ive actually been backing stuff up to a external HD for a few hours now.

also, i'm now able to play for a few minutes, but then the game once again crashes. i updated some things and i can provide a new info file if needed.

On a side note, I noticed that every time the game crashes, the value for memory private working set is always over 1,760,000 K. not sure if this is relevant at all to anything or just a coincidence.

This is main reason of crash. Game will use all available address space and then will crash.

alright thats what i thought. and thats where upgrading to 64-bit will most likely fix that, correct?

Correct. 64-bit version don't have such RAM limitation.