Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Patch 7 - Never used mods, game stuck at 100% loading screen on startup

Hello,

As the title says, I've never actually used mods, all I'm trying to do is continue my playthrough from patch 6 into patch 7, but when I went to start up the game this morning, I just get an endless loading screen.
I've done the following:

Restarted my computer
Tried using Vulkan (I normally use DX11)
Verified file integrity
Completely uninstalled the game and redownloaded it.
Deleted all files (except for save files) found in %Appdata%\Local\Larian
Deleted the entire bin folder in the local files and verified file integrity again

I haven't been able to find any other troubleshooting steps, nor have I been able to successfully launch the game since Patch 7. Any advice would be appreciated.

Nevermind.

I finally found the solution, I'll detail it here if anyone else has the problem:

In my case, an old hotfix from patch 5 was in my data folder, accessible from the local files option in steam (Libarary>BG3>Properties>browse local files) Apparently it was not removed when uninstalling the game, so I missed it during my troubleshooting.

The only reason I was clued into this was because I tried to start the game from the launcher, which I normally have disabled in steam settings to save time. The launcher itself told me of the data mismatch, and this page: https://larian.com/support/faqs/the-launcher-has-a-data-mismatch-error_78 told me where to look.

I made an account just to thank you. After spending ~6 hours doing literally all sorts of things (like you), coming across your fix was the solution to make mine finally start. I appreciate you big time!

I also needed to make an account to thank you as well lol Totally forgot about the mod folder in the data folder

I made a whole account to thank you, yes deleting the mods folder fixed it for me. Thank you so much!