Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Will not start

No luck so far, if I try and start the game with Vulkan it starts minimized and when I click it the game freezes on a black screen and shuts down.
If I start it with DirectX 11 it start as normal but only a black screen and after a few seconds it freezes and shuts down.

Any tips or tricks?

Don't have any tips or tricks. But I can say that I have the exact same problem (so you're not alone, yay?)

Bump, same problem, what details will help in solving this issue?

Same here. Tried updating drivers, running without the launcher, running the game in windowed mode(which did not work apparently), running it with admin rights enabled, but no luck.
Edit: It's the gog version btw.

Another one with exactly the same problems here. I'm running windows 7 and downloaded from GoG, in case it makes any difference

Same issue here. Get a quick 2-3 second black screen and then it crashes and the crash reporter pops up. Once I saw the cursor change to a hand/gauntlet for half a second before the crash.

Hi. I have Steam, when I am forwarded to Larian log in page and press play I get the crash report right away. I have Win 10 and I tried both Vulcan and Direct X with the same crash right away. When I try to start from folder, I actually see a system error message: bg3_dx11.exe, saying the code cannot be executed, because VCRUNTIME140_1.dll is missing. Not sure if it helps.

SOLUTION: I successfully managed to solve the problem. Manually reinstalled my NVIDIA Geforce Experience, and updated all driver. Apparently there was a new driver issued at the 28th of September. Then, I manually downloaded and installed Vulkan. Afterwards game started and running properly now.

I have Steam and Win 10.
As soon as I push log in ---> instacrash.
<3

UPDATE: Norton is Blocking BG3.

Bump for the same

Crashed on start. Direct11 works but it's flashing like hell.

When I start the game with Vulkan, it directly crashes; I don't even get an opening screen. When I start it using DirectX 11, it goes to a black screen, at which point nothing happens and I have to force it to shut down via the task manager.

Game won't start with Vulkan, crashes at start. Permanent black screen when game is started with DX11. Steam version, Windows 7, gtx 980 with latest drivers. Still happening after system reboot.

EDIT: spam clicking the play button it eventualyl launched.

EDIT2: game crashed after opening cinematic.

crashes on launch, windows 10, everything updated, antivirus off. going to get refund until they solve it

I'm one of these many unlucky people that can't login due to black screen >_>

Now I'm getting "further" into the game when I try playing... Instead of black screen and 2-3 second before crash now I get maybe 7-8 seconds and get past the Larian logo and the Nvidia logo before it crashes... This is on Vulkan. On DX11 I still get 2-3 seconds of only black screen before crash.

I seem to have the same problem as everyone. Vulcan crashes after few seconds, Dx11 gives only black screen. Windows 7, GOG

The LariLauncher displays, I press "PLAY" and get just a pure black screen for 1 second, then pure white screen using Vulkan, or just pure black using DX11.

Never see any text, logo, or anything. Total blank. Task Manager reports bg3.exe as running, but not using any CPU time.

Fails running from Steam and from desktop.

WIndows 7 64-bit system. I had to install .NET Core as part of the installation process, otherwise nothing significant happened during install.

Not impressed.

Had crash with Vulkan, works for me with DX11

Edit: works with vulkan now, seems like I hade enabled global reshade with Vulkan through the ReShade setup...

I press play from the launcher, it goes into the game, shows the larian/nvidia logo, starts the loading screen, gets about halfway and then quits the game. No crash report. Tried unsintalling/reinstalling but same issue.

Mac 10.15.7

Same problem here. Straight to black with both DX11 and Vulkan.
Downloaded the game twice with same result.
Tried install Visual C, but no success.
Updated drivers, no success.