Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga is C2D during the intro cinematics. I can get past the company logos but if I try to skip the "He who fights with monsters..." quote it c2d's 'Tales of the Sword Coast Has Stopped Working'. If I let that play and try to skip the title cinematic, it c2d's 'Tales of the Sword Coast Has Stopped Working' and the title cinematic crashes when it stops playing regardless.

I have not had this problem before but I've installed with GoG Galaxy this time and I think it has fubar'd the installation (either that or someone has @#$%ed with the install files)

Things I have done:
- Run in every compatibility mode
- Run as admin
- Disabled visual themes
- Disabled desktop composition
- Disabled Win Firewall and Defender
- Did NOT install to program files

Things I am trying:
- Installing EasyTuTu
- re-redownloading from the webpage not using Galaxy and re-re-reinstalling to see if it makes a difference

Suggestions Appreciated

Setting up EasyTuTu has made the issue irrelevant - for me anyway.

But from my web searches no one seems to have posted the cause of or solution to this matter.

It's quite likely Galaxy - it is still in beta, and has been known to hiccup on specific titles from time to time that work just fine when installed through the traditional installer.

When you are using Galaxy with a game that you install mods, you have to disable automatic updates or Galaxy will try to correct the data and mess up the game.

This is a good thing to know! But I had no mods installed.

Really? What do you call EasyTutu? Tutu takes the installation to a completely new, independant folder. How do you suppose Galaxy handles that?

I had no mods installed at the time BG1 wouldn't work. It was an unmodded install fresh from Galaxy.

Installing TuTu circumvented the issue (given the way the program works, it doesn't technically "fix" it) Galaxy has nothing to do with TuTu.

Gotcha.

I know this is old, but some people look old things up to fix the same problems that re-occur today.

I had this issue today, and I worked on it for hours, doing everything that was mentioned and more. I even removed all Baldur's Gate registry entries in Windows 7. A fresh install didn't matter either. I finally fixed it with a workaround:

Uninstall it and then reinstall it into a different folder. (I changed the install folder from "C:\Games\Installations\Baldur's Gate 1" to "C:\Games\Installations\Baldur's Gate 1 (The Original Saga)" and it worked)

So if everything else doesn't work, and neither does uninstalling/reinstalling, try installing to a new location.

Good luck.