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Posted February 01, 2014
Hey all!
I'm trying to start what is called the greatest RPG of all, but it just wont happen. I tried a few mods from the thread "A Conservative Modder's Guide to Baldur's Gate 1 " and after that didn't work I uninstalled the game and tried it vanilla. Both times I get to the opening credits and it crashes and told me that "Tales of the Sword Coast has stopped working." I looked up some fixed but all of them are about the CD version and not the GOG version which I own.

How do I get this game to work? Any help would be very appreciated.
Post edited February 01, 2014 by RantBusterCasey
This question / problem has been solved by Hickoryimage
Posted February 01, 2014
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RantBusterCasey: Hey all!
I'm trying to start what is called the greatest RPG of all, but it just wont happen. I tried a few mods from the thread "A Conservative Modder's Guide to Baldur's Gate 1 " and after that didn't work I uninstalled the game and tried it vanilla. Both times I get to the opening credits and it crashes and told me that "Tales of the Sword Coast has stopped working." I looked up some fixed but all of them are about the CD version and not the GOG version which I own.

How do I get this game to work? Any help would be very appreciated.
First, and foremost, make absolutely certain that it is not installed inside of 'Program Files'. Next, disable any antivirus you have running (temporarily) -- some are known to prevent or interfere with the running of games. If none of this helps, and your game is vanilla, please post the contents of your baldur.ini here.
Posted February 01, 2014
Also make sure that you installed it as admin and run it as admin...missing that caused problem for me once.
Posted February 01, 2014
Installing it out of program files seems to have done the trick. I don't understand why that had any bearing on it, but oh well. Thanks everyone!
Posted February 01, 2014
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RantBusterCasey: Installing it out of program files seems to have done the trick. I don't understand why that had any bearing on it, but oh well. Thanks everyone!
It is because Windows protects the 'Program Files' folder structure from being written to by data, such as is used by games. It ghosts such data to a virtual folder, and this confuses many applications and games, especially older ones. Games should never be installed there... ever.
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