I purchased and installed the game and everything seemed to be running fine until about three-or-so hours in when my game crashed saying that "Dishonored has encountered a problem and needs to close" and displayed a pretty lengthy error message and ever since, when I try to start the game, it just cuts to that. I've tried every remedy I could find in the forums and elsewhere (Everything's downloaded in the C drive, I'm running it in windows, I've uninstalled and re-installed, I've updated Nvidia and DirectX, I've verified the caches and all that)

System information:
Operating system: Windows xp, 32-bit
Professional
Version 2002
AMD ANthlon™ 64 X2 Dual
Core processor 600+
3.00 GHz, 3.00 GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension.

GeForce 9500 GT Graphics card
Driver version: 306.81
DirectX support: 10
CUDA Cores: 32
Core Clock: 550 MHz
Shader Clock: 1375 MHz
Memory Data Rate: 1440 MHz
Memory interface: 128 bit
Memory: 512 MB
Memory type: GDDR3
Video Bios Version: 62.94.4B.00.06
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16

(I don't know how much of that jargon is superfluous, or even if I'm giving you (the reader) the right details)

If this isn't remedied soon this game was an enormous waste of money, I probably could've had more fun by constructing a miniature city out of three twenty dollar bills and then burning it down.
Please help me, I'm a pathetic, sad, and lonely man. This game is all I have.