Launcher mysteriously started crashing today, but Baldur.exe works (RESOLVED...?)

sorcel00

[EDIT: As mysteriously as it started, this problem appears to have resolved itself. I rebooted (again) and now Launcher works. Officially weird.]

Until this afternoon, I'd been running BG:EE with essentially no problems since launch-day. Launcher worked, updates worked, everything basically worked. (By the way: thanks, devs!)

I fired up the Launcher (BGEE.exe) several times earlier today and ran the game itself (Baldur.exe) with no problems. In mid-day, I stopped playing; a few hours later, I tried running the launcher again. It instantly crashes -- "instantly" as in without even flashing the Launcher UI -- and instead shows a "Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition Launcher has stopped working" dialog. Win7 does its futile search for an online solution and then the dialog closes without giving me any further feedback. I've tried it multiple times and it always crashes in exactly this same way.

If I skip the Launcher and just run Baldur.exe, the game itself runs fine.

So, something happened today that broke BGEE.exe but *not* Baldur.exe. Whatever happened, it happened silently, since I didn't notice any change. For example, I didn't notice a failed update anywhere. My last update was to v1.0.2010, and I played for hours with it, closing it and restarting it multiple times, without a problem.

What I've tried:
--Checked Task Manager to make sure BGEE.exe wasn't already running
--Rebooted
--Switched BGEE.exe to WinXP SP2 compatibility mode
--Switched BGEE.exe to WinXP SP3 compatibility mode
--Ran BGEE.exe as administrator (without any compatibility mode, and in both WinXP SP2 and SP3 modes)
--Re-ran BGEEInstaller.exe
--Deleted C:\Users\_Username_\AppData\Local\BeamDog and re-ran BGEEInstaller.exe (per http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/8599/launcher-crashing-after-attempting-to-update-resolved)
--Deleted ..\Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition\Data\766.beam (per http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/10128/game-launcher-freezes)
--Checked to make sure Nvidia drivers are current: v310.61 (from EVGA)
--Rolled Nvidia drivers back to previous installed version: v306.97 (from EVGA)
--Ran with iTunes open (per http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/8405/read-before-posting-master-technical-faq)
--Checked to make sure BG:EE installation path has no non-ASCII characters (per http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/8405/read-before-posting-master-technical-faq)

System specs:
Win7 x64, Intel Core i5-2500K, ASUS P8Z68-V Pro, EVGA GeForce GTX 580, 16MB RAM, two SSDs with 20GB and 120GB free respectively, and one conventional HDD with nearly 2TB free. BGEE is installed on the HDD.

Nathan

Thanks for this - we're looking into it.

altinusd

Hi, It is happening to me as well, exactly like for sorcell00, do you guys know what is going on?

Thanks

Dragon711

Same problem for me too

Frosthernheim

Same problem here. Not a damn thing I can do to this.