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.
THAnks a lot - that was it - holding shift for starting it as admin
