Crash at beginning of Ep 2

The game crashes immediately after the Ep2 opening credits. Depending on what settings I try sometimes the following error message appears in a popup box.

copyGPUImage has null target
at line 426928 (*load_background:6)

| jskip_s gosub *open-cg ~
| getstralias
$lbg_path,$lbg_name

Hi, I cannot reproduce the issue on my side. The crash implies that something is wrong with your game installation, and some background file is corrupted. Another cause could be faulty GPU drivers.

Ok, it looks like its a GPU card problem, because it worked when I switched it back from the Nvidia card to the integrated Intel graphics. I got a new Nvidia driver update this morning and the problem's still there...could it just be something weird about my specific card? I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M.

You never know whether it is hardware or software. Hope this is just the driver. Try checking this page in case there is anything familiar: https://umineko-project.org/en/known-issues/.