Element 3D is crashing After Effects?

Hello everybody!
I recently purchased Video Co-Pilot's plugin for Adobe After Effects, Element 3D, but much to my amiss, it does not work. The first time I tried to open the scene setup, it said, "Element 3D has encountered an unrecoverable error."
I closed After Effects, and opened it back in hopes of trying again. But this time, when I apply Element 3D to a solid, it tells me "After Effects has stopped working" and I am forced to close the program.
Nothing has changed yet, every time I try to add Element 3D to a solid it crashes After Effects. I updated my graphics driver, re-installed Element 3D, everything I can think of, but to no avail.
If anyone could offer some speculance as to what's happening, that would be amazing.
My system specs:
Acer Aspire 5349
2 GB RAM
250 GB HDD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
DirectX 11
Intel HD Graphics

Thank you so much for responding!
After Effects actually runs very well on my PC, considering I do have the minimum requirements. I am able to run Optical Flares, as well as Trapcode Particular perfectly.
I'm fairly young, so I apologize, but how can I update my graphics card to meet Element 3D's requirements?
Thank you all for you help.
My Graphics specs. Not sure if this will help, but I thought I'd post anyway.

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