Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Cannot Launch Game

Ok i put 11hours into a trial character to learn the buttons and such and the only problems i had were graphical errors like bodies turning into giant blobs and such. Then i shut game off did some things and came back to a 500mb update on steam so i did the update and ever since then i try to start game up and it crashes as soon as i seen the larion guy get shot by the plunger i have a pc that can play this on ultra so its not on my end its ever since the update i wanna know if there is a way i can launch without a crash.

I'm having the same problem. I loaded the game, created a character and played for a few hours. Saved game then came back later and it wouldn't launch. So I changed to dirct x 11 and it still wouldn't launch. Loaded from bg3_dv11 exe and the game started. I played for a few hours, paused the game came back to a not responding screen and I haven't been able to launch the game since. Is there a way we can get Larian to address this issue?

Try pressing and holding shift while you click play on the launcher and while it loads. I know it sounds ridiculous but this was the only thing that made the game not crash on start-up for me.