Larian Studios Forums Dragon Commander Dragon Commander - Technical Problems Can't get the game to work

So I just bought this off steam today and finally got it downloaded. I go to play and the intro starts, it crashes saying it stopped working. Do this several times before I say screw it and just skipped it. So now it is loading to start the game and it crashes again. Do this several more times before I lower all graphics settings to ultra low " play skyrim on ultra high but whatever" and it STILL stops working.

I have windows 7 my GPU is GeForce GTX 460, and CPU is AMD Phenom II X4 B55. Can anyone help me to play this? At this point I am going to try and get a refund if I can't play it soon as what's the point if I can't even start the game.

Did you try verifying local files?

Did you check for updated graphics drivers, etc? Someone with an ATI card fixed this problem by updating to the latest Catalyst Control Center (Still "Dragon Commander has stopped working").

Did you go through the [FAQ] Troubleshooting Dragon Commander & support topic (or the stickied Steam discussion)?

Did you try starting the game in a window? You should be able to change the display mode in the options (there is also a replacement configuration file link in the troubleshooting topics above, or a manual procedure below).





You can manually set the resolution by editing the graphicsettings.lsx file in Wordpad, or other text editor, located in the folder:

C:\Users\ %username% \My Documents\Larian Studios\Dragon Commander

Look for the section

<node id="ConfigEntry">
<attribute id="MapKey" value="ScreenHeight" type="22" />
<attribute id="Type" value="0" type="5" />
<attribute id="Value" value="768" type="4" />
</node>
<node id="ConfigEntry">
<attribute id="MapKey" value="ScreenWidth" type="22" />
<attribute id="Type" value="0" type="5" />
<attribute id="Value" value="1024" type="4" />
</node>



Search for 'fake' near the start of the file to set the display mode (if both FakeFullscreen and Fullscreen are set to zero, it will be in Window mode).

<node id="ConfigEntry">
<attribute id="MapKey" value="FakeFullscreenEnabled" type="22" />
<attribute id="Type" value="0" type="5" />
<attribute id="Value" value="0" type="4" />
</node>
<node id="ConfigEntry">
<attribute id="MapKey" value="FrameCapFPS" type="22" />
<attribute id="Type" value="0" type="5" />
<attribute id="Value" value="60" type="4" />
</node>
<node id="ConfigEntry">
<attribute id="MapKey" value="Fullscreen" type="22" />
<attribute id="Type" value="0" type="5" />
<attribute id="Value" value="1" type="4" />
</node>

verifying local files worked. been able to play since then. thank you. apparently 7 files needed reloading so once it did that i no longer crashed

Glad you got it working.