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Baldur's Gate series Baldur Gate 1 EE - Crash On Startup (Solution)(14 posts)(14 posts)
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Posted January 20, 2017
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Some users experience a problem with Baldur Gates Enhanced Edition - the game crashes at start-up. Usually, the evilish reason behind the crash is in integrated graphics card. While sometimes driver update or compatibility mode change can help, there's another solution, that can work when everything else has failed. The crash happens due to OpenGL implementation of BGEE, so all what's need to be done is simply changing the rendering backend.

While in Steam version of the game, you can do that by editing 'baldur.lua' (located in '%DOCUMETS%\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition'), in GOG version this file is missing. Instead, search for the 'engine.lua' in game installation folder and add the following line:

SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1')
Post edited January 20, 2017 by stixbones
Posted January 22, 2017
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Play the classic version. Seriously. that is the best solution. The EE version is a buggy mess.
Posted March 16, 2017
Many Thanks stixbones!

This fix worked for a friend of mine splendidly!

He tried before to run it as administrator and then even change compatibility settings, without solutions.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us ;) .
Posted January 12, 2018
Thank you!!!! It works for me as well. This is great and should be posted in the official installation or even as an alternative installation. Still my cursor (the hand is blinking and if I do not move it disappears, is an annoyance hope I get it resolve but still playable...
Posted October 06, 2018
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stixbones: Some users experience a problem with Baldur Gates Enhanced Edition - the game crashes at start-up. Usually, the evilish reason behind the crash is in integrated graphics card. While sometimes driver update or compatibility mode change can help, there's another solution, that can work when everything else has failed. The crash happens due to OpenGL implementation of BGEE, so all what's need to be done is simply changing the rendering backend.

While in Steam version of the game, you can do that by editing 'baldur.lua' (located in '%DOCUMETS%\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition'), in GOG version this file is missing. Instead, search for the 'engine.lua' in game installation folder and add the following line:

SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1')
Worked for me. The game now starts and follows through without crashing (at first it was just getting stuck during the initial video sequences). While there is nothing wrong with the game itself during play, an unusual side effect after adding the text to the file was that the initial video sequence (and all video sequences) now have a very distorted and stuttered sound that I'm sure wasn't there before. A small price to pay, though. Thanks.
Posted July 18, 2019
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stixbones: Some users experience a problem with Baldur Gates Enhanced Edition - the game crashes at start-up. Usually, the evilish reason behind the crash is in integrated graphics card. While sometimes driver update or compatibility mode change can help, there's another solution, that can work when everything else has failed. The crash happens due to OpenGL implementation of BGEE, so all what's need to be done is simply changing the rendering backend.

While in Steam version of the game, you can do that by editing 'baldur.lua' (located in '%DOCUMETS%\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition'), in GOG version this file is missing. Instead, search for the 'engine.lua' in game installation folder and add the following line:

SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1')
This worked for me too. Why is this not implemented from the start? Anyway, off to play the game now that it actually works!
Posted March 04, 2023
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stixbones: Some users experience a problem with Baldur Gates Enhanced Edition - the game crashes at start-up. Usually, the evilish reason behind the crash is in integrated graphics card. While sometimes driver update or compatibility mode change can help, there's another solution, that can work when everything else has failed. The crash happens due to OpenGL implementation of BGEE, so all what's need to be done is simply changing the rendering backend.

While in Steam version of the game, you can do that by editing 'baldur.lua' (located in '%DOCUMETS%\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition'), in GOG version this file is missing. Instead, search for the 'engine.lua' in game installation folder and add the following line:

SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1')
Im confused on what you mean by add the following line 'Graphics','Backend','1'...do I just type that in after engine.lua??
Posted March 04, 2023
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ForgivenOne7: Im confused on what you mean by add the following line 'Graphics','Backend','1'...do I just type that in after engine.lua??
I don't have the beamdog version, so I'm not sure what's in the engine.lua.
But you would go to the folder where the game is installed, and look for the engine.lua file.
Open it with notepad, and copy and paste SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1') under the last line that's there, and then save it.
Posted April 02, 2023
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stixbones: Some users experience a problem with Baldur Gates Enhanced Edition - the game crashes at start-up. Usually, the evilish reason behind the crash is in integrated graphics card. While sometimes driver update or compatibility mode change can help, there's another solution, that can work when everything else has failed. The crash happens due to OpenGL implementation of BGEE, so all what's need to be done is simply changing the rendering backend.

While in Steam version of the game, you can do that by editing 'baldur.lua' (located in '%DOCUMETS%\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition'), in GOG version this file is missing. Instead, search for the 'engine.lua' in game installation folder and add the following line:

SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1')
Solution works perfect with Amazoon version (Windows 7, IntelHD 3000)
Posted April 06, 2023
its in the Documents on a Windows system... thats Beamdog or Gog
Posted June 15, 2023
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stixbones: While in Steam version of the game, you can do that by editing 'baldur.lua' (located in '%DOCUMETS%\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition'), in GOG version this file is missing. Instead, search for the 'engine.lua' in game installation folder and add the following line:

SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1')
What I did was start the game from the game file instead of going through GOG.com?
Posted December 03, 2023
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stixbones: Some users experience a problem with Baldur Gates Enhanced Edition - the game crashes at start-up. Usually, the evilish reason behind the crash is in integrated graphics card. While sometimes driver update or compatibility mode change can help, there's another solution, that can work when everything else has failed. The crash happens due to OpenGL implementation of BGEE, so all what's need to be done is simply changing the rendering backend.

While in Steam version of the game, you can do that by editing 'baldur.lua' (located in '%DOCUMETS%\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition'), in GOG version this file is missing. Instead, search for the 'engine.lua' in game installation folder and add the following line:

SetPrivateProfileString('Graphics','Backend','1')
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brandtner: Solution works perfect with Amazoon version (Windows 7, IntelHD 3000)
Doesn't work. Game still will not load. Won't load by directly loading executable, won't load after moving it out of Program Files, BG1 EE will not run in Windows at this point.
Posted December 04, 2023
Exactly what version is troubling you, and with what error message? This thread was started in 2017, with a different version of Baldur's Gate than is available now.
Posted July 13, 2024
WHOA it worked. Holy crap.

had to try it like 7 different times. Couldn't open the LUA file as a text (notepad) so I renamed it from Engine.LUA to Engine.txt. Had to actually COPY the line of code from the OP in this webpage, and then paste it into the text file. (Kept getting the series of single quotations & commas wrong, I'm guessing).

Renamed the file from Engine.txt back to Engine.LUA. Game now works.
Post edited July 13, 2024 by Xenaclone
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