My democracy 3 crashes on load or new game

I am using Windows 8 with 4 GBS of RAM i have a built in intel graphics card and my debug file is:

[code][21:1:37:603]- ----DEBUG FILE----
[21:1:37:603]- Windows 7 detected
[21:1:37:603]- Command Line: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Democracy 3\Democracy3.exe”
[21:1:37:603]- Command Line argument:[]
[21:1:37:606]- Desktop resolution is 1366 x 768
[21:1:37:618]- Initialising Sound Engine
[21:1:37:619]- Writing default options
[21:1:37:666]- Finished Initialising Sound Engine
[21:1:37:682]- Attempting to initialise steam
[21:1:37:773]- Steam initialisation success
[21:1:37:773]- Requesting steam stats…
[21:1:37:774]- …Steam stats requested
[21:1:37:775]- Initialising Direct3D
[21:1:37:960]- Initialising global vertex buffer
[21:1:38:8]- GBufferedFile failed to open file [C:\Users\louis\Documents/My Games/democracy3/stats.ini]
[21:1:38:8]- GBufferedFile failed to open file [C:\Users\louis\Documents/My Games/democracy3/stats.ini]
[21:1:38:49]- GBufferedFile failed to open file [C:\Users\louis\Documents/My Games/democracy3/tut_seen.ini]
[21:1:38:258]- Received stats and achievements from Steam

[21:1:38:261]- GBufferedFile failed to open file [C:\Users\louis\Documents/My Games/democracy3/achievements.ini]
[21:1:43:226]- GBufferedFile failed to open file [C:\Users\louis\Documents/My Games/democracy3/mod_dates.ini]
[21:1:43:638]- STEAMWORKS: 0 files enumerated for workshop
[21:1:49:327]- GBufferedFile failed to open file [C:\Users\louis\Documents/My Games/democracy3/mod_status.ini]
[21:2:56:134]- Starting new game…
[21:2:57:546]- Failed to find neuron: []:.\src\SIM_Simulation.cpp 580
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i can see one big thing wrong here at the top because i am not using windows 7 - i’m using windows 8