Planescape on Older PC: Exit Code 3221225477
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I know little about PCs and haven't played a game on PC in years. Picked up Planescape for my phone, liked it so much I bought it on PC, but when I click "Play," it gives me the exit code listed above. No idea why. Am I doomed? Out 20 bucks?
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If that doesn't help you, we'll need a crash dump from you (just attach the dump to your comment). Thank you.
You'll need to install updated graphics drivers for your video card in order to get OpenGL support.
Go into my documents/planescape torment enhanced edition/ and open the baldur.lua file (with like wordpad or some other text editor).
If your baldur.lua file has it change this line from a 0 to a 1
SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','0')
If it doesn't then add the following line to the file
SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1')
Here's what happened: the only .LUA I could find was called "engine.lua" (not "baldur.lua"). I added the line of text you so helpfully wrote to "engine.lua" & tried to launch the game ...
Now it tells me "Could not compile Direct X shaders" and "exit code: 1"; so, while the problem isn't fixed, progress has been made! Hope, however feeble, is being rekindled ...
Ok, couple things here.
1) The LUA file you're looking for is in your "My Documents" directory, not in the PST:EE Game directory.
If you have the line in the engine.lua file, go ahead and take it out.
2) This has happened in the past, the game's not getting far enough to create a baldur.lua file or a directory structure for you. I'm assuming you're using windows so I'm going to guide you through a few things that may hopefully help.
Start by opening your file browser on your OS (not sure which Windows OS you're using so I'm going to be generic).
You'll want to navigate to your "my Documents" directory, which should be available as a "hot link" on the left side of the file browser, if not you're probably looking for "C:\Users\[ loginname ]\My Documents"
You'll want to right-click in the right hand pane and find the ability to create a new folder, name it "Planescape Torment - Enhanced Edition" (to be clear, this should be at C:\Users\[ loginname ]\My Documents\Planescape Torment - Enhanced Edition" on your PC)
Once you have this directory created, you'll need a default baldur.lua file (since the game is unable to create one for you).
I've attached one to this post with the Graphics engine already turned to DirectX (as noted above, Graphics 1 instead of 0)
Unzip this so it's named "Baludr.lua" (unzip it, don't just rename it) and move it into that Planescape Torment directory you just created in My Documents
You should now have:
C:\Users\[ loginname ]\My Documents\Planescape Torment - Enhanced Edition
C:\Users\[ loginname ]\My Documents\Planescape Torment - Enhanced Edition\Baldur.lua
Try starting the game again and let us know what happens.
I removed the line of code from "engine.lua".
I already had a "PT - EE" folder in My Documents, but it was empty.
I downloaded your zip of Baldur.lua (thanks!) and copied it into the empty folder.
I hopefully launched the game ... & got the same "Could not compile Directx shaders - exit code: 1" info.
... I know you're not out to steal my $; I blame myself for thinking an updated game would run on my older PC. But again, thanks for the help.
Is your Operating System up to date? i.e. latest patches? If you're getting a directx error there's every possibility that too needs an update. If you're on Win7 or before OS Updates are not mandatory/auto-installed sometimes.
Can you make sure your OS is fully up to date?
Once that's done, please run "dxdiag" from your windows "run" line. Click that "Save information" and give us a post of the info (compress it if you can).
That info helps, the card+chipset showing as G45/G43 and Intel 4 series. There is further information on the thread below but as you surmised earlier, official drivers for the card stopped after Windows 7 and Windows 8/10 will default to generic drivers.
Without reverting/dual booting to Windows 7/Vista/XP, or possibly Linux you are unlikely to run the game on the machine. (I am assuming that installing the Windows 7 drivers on later releases is not feasible/likely to work)
http://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/43274/windows-10-and-the-mobile-intel-r-4-series-express-chipset-family-causing-lag
In other words, it may work but may be quite complicated.
I have Intel Arrandale in my laptop and Intel doesn't support this CPU+GPU since 2013. Because I have Windows 10 I'm forced to use Windows 10 drivers. Every 3D game works like trash on these drivers.
Every time I launched PSTEE it crashed, then I downloaded your Baldur.lua file and now it works, but in options it says that I have AMD graphics card.