The only two I would recommend everyone do is the following: Because the causes of this error are so varying, I have listed all possible solutions below. For some people it appears right away when the game is starting up.
This problem first appeared for me in Chapter 1 in the maintenance bay. If you’re playing on a machine with a lower level/unsupported video card (especially integrated graphics) you might run into the following error: Tested: windows 7 32 bit, windows 7 64 bit