Spring RTS Engine

Spring launches.. goes black then crashes with the "SPring has crashed" popup.. this happens when the games i join launch or ever during a spring test run.

Using read-write data directory: C:\Program Files\Spring\
Scanning: C:\Program Files\Spring\maps
Scanning: C:\Program Files\Spring\base
Scanning: C:\Program Files\Spring\mods
Video mode set to 1024 x 768 / 32 bit
[ 0] SDL: 1.2.10
[ 0] GL: 2.1.8201 Release
[ 0] GL: ATI Technologies Inc.
[ 0] GL: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300
[ 0] GLEW: 1.4.0
[ 0] Connecting to local server using number 0
[ 0] Became player 0
[ 0] Using map Sands of War v2.smf
[ 0] Recording demo demos/local_20081116_150044_Sands of War v2_0.77b5 (spring_0.77b5-R6842).sdf
[ 0] Using script Random enemies
[ 0] Using mod Balanced Annihilation V6.5
[ 0] Connecting to server .
[ 0] Parsing unit icons
[ 0] Loading all definitions: 1.206000
[ 0] Spring 0.77b5 (spring_0.77b5-R6842) has crashed.
[ 0] Exception: Access violation (0xc0000005)
[ 0] Exception Address: 0x694aa62a
[ 0] DLL information:
[ 0] 0x00400000 spring
[ 0] 0x7c900000 ntdll
[ 0] 0x7c800000 kernel32
[ 0] 0x77dd0000 ADVAPI32
[ 0] 0x77e70000 RPCRT4
[ 0] 0x77fe0000 Secur32
[ 0] 0x73f10000 dsound
[ 0] 0x77c10000 msvcrt
[ 0] 0x7e410000 USER32
[ 0] 0x77f10000 GDI32
[ 0] 0x774e0000 ole32
[ 0] 0x76b40000 WINMM
[ 0] 0x77c00000 VERSION
[ 0] 0x68b20000 GLU32
[ 0] 0x5ed00000 OPENGL32
[ 0] 0x73760000 DDRAW
[ 0] 0x73bc0000 DCIMAN32
[ 0] 0x76c90000 IMAGEHLP
[ 0] 0x6fbc0000 mingwm10
[ 0] 0x7c9c0000 SHELL32
[ 0] 0x77f60000 SHLWAPI
[ 0] 0x71ad0000 WSOCK32
[ 0] 0x71ab0000 WS2_32
[ 0] 0x71aa0000 WS2HELP
[ 0] 0x6ed80000 glew32
[ 0] 0x10000000 SDL
[ 0] 0x7c340000 MSVCR71
[ 0] 0x00df0000 DevIL
[ 0] 0x66fc0000 freetype6
[ 0] 0x61b80000 zlib1
[ 0] 0x003d0000 ILU
[ 0] 0x773d0000 comctl32
[ 0] 0x5d090000 comctl32
[ 0] 0x5a000000 klg
[ 0] 0x77120000 oleaut32
[ 0] 0x5ad70000 uxtheme
[ 0] 0x74720000 MSCTF
[ 0] 0x69020000 atioglxx
[ 0] 0x01f20000 dadkeyb
[ 0] 0x01f50000 PCTLsp
[ 0] 0x71a50000 mswsock
[ 0] 0x662b0000 hnetcfg
[ 0] 0x71a90000 wshtcpip
[ 0] 0x76c30000 WINTRUST
[ 0] 0x77a80000 CRYPT32
[ 0] 0x77b20000 MSASN1
[ 0] 0x72d20000 wdmaud
[ 0] 0x72d10000 msacm32
[ 0] 0x77be0000 MSACM32
[ 0] 0x77bd0000 midimap
[ 0] 0x73ee0000 KsUser
[ 0] 0x59a60000 DBGHELP
[ 0] Stacktrace:

paste the stacktrace too :)

and, do you have the otacontent files in your Spring/base directory?

otacontent.sdz? yes

and there is nothing below stacktrace:

1024x768 on a somewhat recent laptop? Run the settings program and set the resolution to your native resolution... Disable all graphic settings too just to see if any of them is causing the problem