Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Problem with Launcher

When I try to launch the game I get a window for the Larian launcher with icons on the left hand side for the different games, but is otherwise black with no image, no feed, and most importantly no button to play the game.

What should I do?

Type "--skip-launcher" in your launch options.

Right click on the game in steam
Go to Properties
Scroll to the bottom

For me, that command made the launcher window not pop up when I started BG3 - but the launcher still must've been active in the background at some level, because it kept showing up in my Windows Reliability Report as crashing. Also seemed to freeze/BSoD my whole PC.

The option that *really* got rid of the launcher for me is this one:



^ You'll obviously need to adjust the path to match your installation's path.

After I'd used that one instead of the "skip" command-line, the launcher never showed up again in the Reliability Report and my PC became more stable - until other apps started to crash it, but that's another matter...

This is what it looked like before:


Come to think of it, perhaps that stupid MS Teams Updater was more to blame here (I've since uninstalled MS Teams). It was one of the apps that kept crashing /crashing the PC even after I had disabled the launcher. In any case: There were other days where the Launcher popped up a lot more in that list... I think it basically crashed every time I started the game after the BG3 August ...err 26th patch.



S.