As soon as I hit play the game crashes. I have tried a few of the things other people have suggested to no avail. Would be nice to play the game I just handed over 20 bucks for...
Alright, telling BGEE.exe to use compatability for Windows 98 worked for me. Vista SP1 and the other compatability types did not work. I am using Win7 64-bit, with 8GB of memory and an Nvidia 460M graphics card (Alienware M15X laptop). Hope this helps some of you...
When I click the BGEE.exe nothing happens at all, but when I click the baldur.exe fill, it seems to load briefly but then stops. Ugh. Well I can still get my original BGTuTu to work.
I don't know if this will help anyone else, but I changed the baldur.exe property in the 00766 folder to have the following properties:
Run as administrator Vista compatibility (service pack 3) Reduced Color Mode Disable Display Scaling on high dpi settings.
The game now launches.
I did all this and now the game launches....but I can't see anything. I just get a black screen and the in game pointer. I'm at what I assume is the main menu and I can click things, but I can't see anything.
Hi guys, Just to put in my voice: same issue - click play nothing happened Tried all sorts of methods suggested by others here - no dice.
Also wanted to ask - what is the size of the game folder for you guys? I remember it was advertised to be a 3Gb install unpacked from a download of 1.8Gb. My game folder is only worth 1.8 - could it be the game just failed to unpack and therefore could not start?
My specs: Windows 7 64bit (Language = Chinese) SP1 ATI mobility HD5730 1gb memory Intel Core i5 M520 4Gb RAM
Jesus fu- I can't get it to launch when I click the "Run as Administrator" box in the Properties menu but when I unclick that, right click on the baldur.exe thing and click Run as Admin it takes me to my nice, black screened menu. This is f-ing ridiculous. This game was in no way, shape or form ready for release. I'd hate to see how it was back when they pushed the release date back.
I’ve tried all the suggestions here and NOTHING works. It just launches and dies. On some Compatibility settings I get an “Application Corrupt” message. This is the biggest Piece of $hit program I’ve ever purchased. MAYBE, IF, they ever get their act together I MAY have a chance at running the IPAD version and I’ll be able to enjoy this program. In the meantime GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I found a very strange solution to this problem. By chance I had iTunes open when I launched the game and it worked! I've tested a few times and for some reason the game launches with iTunes open at the same time, but fails to launch without it.
Somehow iTunes makes my game playable. I have no idea how, but I am not complaining.
Run as admin and switching to Vista (SP2) compatability mode worked for me. I'm on Win7-64, This really shouldn't be happening, Win7 has been out for a fair while now.
When you move the 00766 folder to C:\ what do you do with the two other files?
Looks same for me, bro. Also tried every compatibility option and nothing worked. I hate myself for wasting 20$. It really isn't that low cash, especially FOR NOTHING.
Right, after trying all day I finally have it loading! After examination of the windows event log there were a couple of SvS errors (as seen in the http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/7735/poss-fix-for-game-crashing-after-clicking-play#latest thread). If you look in there and see errors about a missing assembly when you click play, try installing the visual c++ 2008 redistributable. Finally worked for me
Changed comp and ran as admin and when I open Baldur.exe get error message saying This application has failed to start because its side by side configuration is incorrect . Please see the application event log for me detail. Also Cant find the event log.
What worked for me (I had "application stopped working" after clicking Play in introduction to Candlekeep; and also intro didn't show up only some strange zoomed bricks from menu in with you can choose game type, then I had to click for main menu to appear).
I have notebook with Moblity Radeon HD 3650 and what I had to do is to install new driver from here:
Until today I was using driver downloaded by my Windows 8 64 bit. And it was OK for all games. Anyway I think that rather than new driver what has worked for me was Catalyst Control Center and other stuff with I wasn't using earlier. So install all you can what comes with you driver (all this apps that gives you oportunity to change antialiasing and other stuff). I thing that people with nVidia have similar application so you may try to do same thing.
Buy a game, spend an afternoon just trying to get the thing to run properly. I love PC gaming.
Yes, PC gaming is the most proper to errors and manual workarounds of all. But it has the most games that I like (and they usually are better on all aspects) and great emulators as well.
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Run as administrator
Vista compatibility (service pack 3)
Reduced Color Mode
Disable Display Scaling on high dpi settings.
The game now launches.
Just to put in my voice: same issue - click play nothing happened
Tried all sorts of methods suggested by others here - no dice.
Also wanted to ask - what is the size of the game folder for you guys? I remember it was advertised to be a 3Gb install unpacked from a download of 1.8Gb. My game folder is only worth 1.8 - could it be the game just failed to unpack and therefore could not start?
My specs:
Windows 7 64bit (Language = Chinese) SP1
ATI mobility HD5730 1gb memory
Intel Core i5 M520
4Gb RAM
Cheers.
My Specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
8gb of RAM
NVidia GTX 570 Video
Somehow iTunes makes my game playable. I have no idea how, but I am not complaining.
http://i.imgur.com/FOXK7.jpg
When you move the 00766 folder to C:\ what do you do with the two other files?
Also tried every compatibility option and nothing worked. I hate myself for wasting 20$. It really isn't that low cash, especially FOR NOTHING.
1. Download Microsoft C++ 2008: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29
2. Download Microsoft C++ 2010 : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555
3. Download DirectX 9.0c: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
specs in so far as i can discover them;
Windows Vista SP2 (i think...)
ATI Radeon 3200
(unsure about the other values.)
any suggestions?
I have notebook with Moblity Radeon HD 3650 and what I had to do is to install new driver from here:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalystlegacywin8.aspx
Until today I was using driver downloaded by my Windows 8 64 bit. And it was OK for all games. Anyway I think that rather than new driver what has worked for me was Catalyst Control Center and other stuff with I wasn't using earlier. So install all you can what comes with you driver (all this apps that gives you oportunity to change antialiasing and other stuff). I thing that people with nVidia have similar application so you may try to do same thing.