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Disable Alternate Renderer out of game

CruCru Member Posts: 12
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I was toying with some of the graphics settings and I tried to load the game with the alternate renderer (DirectX support).

Now I get an error message stating "could not compile directx shaders". If I could just disable the renderer all would be well though I can't find a way to do it out of game. (nothing in the baldur.ini and I don't know how to create the line from scratch).

I've tried using the baldur.ini from my BGEE2 install as well as the repair installation feature to no success.

How can I disable the alternate renderer (or simply restore default settings in general) without launching the game?

I'd really rather not reinstall...

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  • CerevantCerevant Member Posts: 2,314
    Baldur.ini is no longer used - you need to edit Baldur.lua. You want to set the following:
    SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','0')
  • CruCru Member Posts: 12
    Awesome thank you for the response.
  • YupImMadBroYupImMadBro Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 347
    I believe that my friend is also having this issue with his Steam version of BGEE. Reinstalling does not correct this issue. @Cerevant, can you expand on what your suggested fix is?
  • CerevantCerevant Member Posts: 2,314
    Quit the game if it is running
    In the Documents folder, there is a BG:EE folder
    In that folder there is a file called baldur.lua
    You need to edit this file with a programmer's text editor like Notepad++
    Find the line that matches "SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1')" and change the 1 to a 0
    Save
    Start the game
  • YupImMadBroYupImMadBro Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 347
    @Cerevant, he informed me that it worked. Thanks a lot!
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