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

Everytime I hit play I get a crash report. Tried Direct X and the other.

I have seen on steam forums that it is missing Microsoft visual C. Trying that now.

Edit : visual C worked for me.

Ich hatte das gleiche Problem: Crash direkt nach dem clicken des Play Buttons.
Bei mir lag es wirklich am Microsoft Visual C+++
Downladen des aktullen Files von Microsoft hat geholfen.

Ok, I was so excited about the game finally working, that i didn’t realise, that this is an English Forum.^^

What I was trying to say:

My Game crashed instantly after pressing the play Button. No Black screen, I just got the error Massage.
I had fixed it by installing the latest Microsoft Visual C+++ App. I downloaded it by the link below.


https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

Well, same issue. Only i have managed to run the game once, almost got through the caracter creation and then the game crushed. After that only the black screen. The update of Microsoft Visual C++ didn't help.

Same here, white/black crash screen. Visual C don't help.

Same issue here, white/black (vulkan/dx11) crash. Visual C didn't help at all.
Any better suggestions out there?

Same problem here =/

Same here. Steam. Both DirectX11 and Vulkan.

Visual C++ didn't help. Latest NVidia drivers didn't help.

GTX 1080Ti
AMD3900X

I was having a problem where any time I pressed play, the launcher immediately crashed. After some tinkering, my friend and I found that the Microsoft redistributable files were missing from my system, specifically the 2015-2019 files. After redownloading them, the game launched immediately.

Could you please post more details on the files and where to find them? I think that would help a lot of users.

The Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x64) did not work for me. Still getting blank, white screen.

He means the ones here -> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

Select x64: vc_redist.x64.exe

Note that these did NOT work for me. Good luck.

Having the same problem here,
hit play and with Vulkan, minimised before crashing, Directx11 black screen then crash.
i've tried the things sugested in the thread but nothing worked, so i'm adding my voice in the hope that larian spots it faster :)

Exact same problem here. Black screen after launching in both modes.
Settings: Win 7 64bit, I7 4790, 8 gb RAM and Nvidia 980 4gm.

Edit: Installed the C++ archives from the link posted in this thread and worked fine. Game Is running perfect now.

Same deal. Vulkan instantly crashes, switching to DX11 loads a black screen, but then freezes. Installed C++ redistx64, updated to latest nvidia drivers, no luck.
Windows 7
GTX 1060

Same problem. Tried Visual C++ re-download, updated drivers, starting from folder without Steam and all the other stuff in this thread as well. Didn't work. Windows 7 btw.

Gentlemen/ladies, I have mine through steam. What worked for me was finding the exe in the programfiles (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/baldursgate3/bin folder....or where ever similar you may have manually installed it.

Once there, clicking on bg3.exe to select/highlight first, I then held SHIFT and right clicked on it again to bring up the menu to choose "Run as Administrator". The game launched properly from there.

Give it a go, hope that works.

THat was the answer for me, Thanks Bitterman.
I installed new Nvidia Drivers.
New C+ redistributable x64 drivers.
No luck
I even ran the shortcut as "Run As Administrator". No Luck
But for GOG install, go to your *\bin\ folder from wherever you had the game installed. You will find the "bg3.exe" and "bg3_dx11.exe" files.
Right click on them and running as Admin will not work.

YOU HAVE TO use "shift+right-click" and then select "run as admin" for it to work.

***EDIT: And oddly enough, you have to keep pressing down on SHIFT button while you click on the "run as administrator" for it to work. If you let go of SHIFT key, before you click on the "run as admin" it will also fail to run.
yeah, this is crazy. Esp considering that most of us are probably local admins on our machines.

Smh, i was so close to making some stupid comment about how that this isn't how computers work and that there is no way for this to do anything at all. But, i swear to god it actually works. Much thanks to you.

I tried it and it worked for me too. I have no idea HOW or WHY it worked but it did!

The shift + "run as administrator" works for me too. It's absurd, right button "run as administrator" dont work but with shift works. Thank you!