HP Slimline 450 -a120 amd e1 ----- Return of Krondor fix ------ I check the RTK.log within the C:\Sierra\Rtk folder it says atiumdag.dll violation. So within the same C:\Sierra\RtK folder I place the .dll file within. The file however is a Swiftshader (d3d9.dll) that is renamed into (atiumdag.dll).

The opening intro cutscenes does not work in stretch mode due to windows media player issues on windows 10. To fix this within the C:\Sierra\Rtk folder open\edit the RTKrondor.ini file. Set the [Cinemat] Stretch=0 (that's is all). Then in properties set the compatibility to XP Service mode 3. The video should now display, but not filling the screen of the monitor.

Dgvoodoo 2.44 to 2.54 has a MS folder within, that contains d3d8.dll this as well can be used. Change the .dll file name to atiumdag.dll and place within the C:\Sierra\RtK folder. Note: some downloads of this file however contains warnings of malicious\virus. find proper version without the virus\malicious content.

Hello All,

Short version: 1.Turn off D.E.P 2.Turn off any and all over lays that can affect the game (gog,nvidia, radeon, etc), 3.Download the standalone installer and right click it to install as administrator, when the install is done launch the game from the install is finshed box and it should start 4. Close the game and bring up the return to krondor folder and go into the compatibilty options on rtk.exe, and set the compatibility mode to windows 98 and make sure that run as administrator is checked and then apply the changes. Now right click rtk.exe and select run as administrator and the game should start.

I hope this helps with anyone trying to get this game started. After many hours of trying everything in this thread and a couple of threads on steam, it seems that windows has some kind of issue with how this game tries to access certain files and the game itself seems to have issues with any type of overlay.

So the first thing I think that may have helped is I turned off Data Execution Prevention, I beleive its listed in this thread somewhere if not a quick google search will tell you how to do that. Since that didn't fix the problem on its own I messed around with the compatibility settings. That didn't work either initially. So I decided to uninstall the game from galaxy and reinstall by downloading the standalone install file, that way I could avoid any gog overlay stuff. When I installed it this time though i made sure to run the install file as the administrator, just so windows understood I wanted the program to do what it needed to do. It took a little longer than normal but it did install and amazingly it did start!

Then I closed the game and it preceded to not want to start again.

So I did the whole process again and it worked again,then it didn't work again. So the only thing I did differently than the last sevral installs was to right click the install file and run as admin. So I checked the compatibility settings on rtk.exe and noticed two things: I had it set to win 98 compatibility at some point and I had it set to run as admin. So on a hunch I I right clicked the rtk.exe in the game folder and ran it as administrator again and the game started! To double check I changed the compatibility settings a little bit and it went back to not starting even though i was running the exe as admin. Changed the settigns back ot win 98 and run as administrator and the right clicked the exe and ran as admin and the game started again.

Don't know why this worked for me but it did. The machine im using has windows 7 on it and I don't have a way to test it on windows 10 but this may work there too. Hopefully someone else can try it and post here to let others know.

Hope this helps.

Hey everyone!

I've met the same problem with "RtK" recently. Last time i saw that kind of habitation - it was "Shogo". There was several tries to resolve it, but i finished with disabling Windows' Game Center entirely via regedit. It helped me to forget about "rundll32" problem and more.

Just start "run" through the control panel, then type "regedit", run it, and find:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\GameUX\Service Location

There will be "Games" parameter. Change it's volume (https with something) to "localhost". Now restart your PC and try to run "Return to Krondor" again.

I tried so much things, at the end I found a workaround:
Delete (backup first) the .dll which cause the problem - check the rtk.log in the game directory.

In my case it was nvd3dum.dll - after i deleted it, my game starts with a blank screen BUT without an error and with sound. I could just skip the scenes and then see the legendary main manu. :D

Sad that all video scenes are just black with sound, but I can play this game!

Hope this workaround will work for you too.

Oh and don't forget to set compatibility mode to Win XP SP2

I had the same problem, trying to run the game resulted in nothing (except that for some reason trying to run the game turned ClearType off and all my fonts became jagged, im running Windows 10 64) I tried most of the fixes listed here and the support page with no luck. RtK.exe starts up on task manager but completely hangs up and the game never starts.

For me the solution ended up being simple: I tried running the game completely normally, then opened up task manager, right clicked the task->Go to details->Right click again->Analyze wait chain. RtK.exe was waiting for some background process (it had something to do with discord). Killed that process, and the game immediately started without problems :)

I'm getting an error that says:

"An error has occurred while trying to read the game file: .try

The game requires this file. This problem may be corrected by reinstalling the game. To reinstall game insert disk ."

Can some one please help me with this its one of my favorite games and would love to play it

The answer was very simple for me Windows 10 64 bit and NVIDEA GPU: you have to go in GeForce Experience App; disable toggle for in in game overlay- then it works perfectly

I had the same problem that a "Launcher" icon appeared in the bottom right, but no game appeared. Here's how I got it fixed.

1. Try to start the game, so that the Launcher icon appears bottom right

2. go into Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Delete, then select Task Manager or the bottom option)

3. show the detailed view - the list of processes - hit More Details if necessary

4. Find RtK on the list (not Launcher) - if it doesn't appear, your problem is different

5. Right click it, choose Go to Details or Details - you should see RtK.exe on the Details tab

6. Right click RtK.exe in the Details list, pick Analyze Wait Chain.

This shows if the RtK game is being halted by something else. You might then see another process that needs to be shut down or done something with. If you don't see anything, your problem is different.

For me, it was Adobe CEF Helper - yep, Adobe Creative Cloud service was stopping RTK from starting. So I right-click that process and ended it (every instance in the list), and RtK worked.

Thanks it worked, and for me it was the Nvidia Container.

THIS WORKS!!!!!!!!!! thank god you sweet sweet person i can finally play with game again

Oddly, for my system, the "nVidia Scaling" feature cannot be manually turned on (it seems to be a bug in the nVidia control panel)

HOWEVER... if you're at least a little confident regarding working in the registry, it's an easy fix (albeit one I have to re-do every so often... basically, after every time I, or any program, opens the nVidia Control Panel app!)

Your system may have a different path inside of your registry to this, but this is MY path. I've bookmarked the location, so I can easily fix it whenever necessary.

This is the exported subsection of my registry which includes the information for my graphics card.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Configuration\ACI24A4H4LMQS143749_11_07E1 _BA^2BC5CA6E1EA1A34C744DD838C78CE653\00\00]
"Flags"=dword:e101ff87
"VideoStandard"=dword:000000ff
"ActiveSize.cx"=dword:00000780
"ActiveSize.cy"=dword:00000438
"VSyncFreq.Numerator"=dword:00023281
"VSyncFreq.Denominator"=dword:000003e8
"HSyncFreq.Numerator"=dword:136053c0
"HSyncFreq.Denominator"=dword:00000808
"PixelRate"=dword:136053c0
"ScanlineOrdering"=dword:00000001
"Scaling"=dword:00000004
"Rotation"=dword:00000001
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You'll note a "Scaling" feature there.

To set nVidia Scaling "on," that needs to be set to "4." Every time I open my nVidia Control Panel, it gets reset to a value of "3," which means "stretch to fit." (The other settings are useless, as far as I'm concerned... I only worry about 3 and 4.)

When its set to "4," you'll get a 4x3 image in the middle of your screen, with black regions to the left and the right, when using a 16x9 (or other non-4x3) format, without the obnoxious "stretching" of the screen contents that usually happens.

Presumably this works with other aspect ratios as well, but I only use it to fit 4:3 screens into my 16:9 display.

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Now, fascinatingly, I discovered that there is a different item of software this package was "waiting on" to start. In my case, it was the Logitech Discord plugin.

In Windows 10, you can get to the "wait chain viewer" from the Task Manager. However, for earlier versions (say, Windows 7) you also have this tool... but it's accessible from the "Resource Monitor." (Which you can open by running "resmon")

For Win7 users, you browse down the list of running processes, until you find the one "hanging," and right-click on it, and you'll get a "wait chain" list, showing what process(es) the application is waiting on.

This is VERY useful. A lot of programs have issues of this sort, and knowing what particular tool or application is blocking some other tool or application is always useful information to have.

i dont have gogs version, i own the original hard copy of the game and have been trying to get it to work to no avail.

the game will launch to the menu that lists play game, reinstall, uninstall and exit options, when i click play the game it begins to start then throws this error at me

an error has been detected that prevents the game from continuing.

press ok to return to windows

this is what my log says

Game Engine for Return to Krondor (tm) v1.00.5
Copyright © 1998 PyroTechnix, Inc.

Logging started at 20:16:09 on Tuesday, November 09, 2021

Program exception: ACCESS_VIOLATION (C0000005)
: 6AED3070 (01:00162070) in C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\c0322127.inf_amd64_fc4ea00057f87230\atiumdag.dll

any idea what i can do to get rid of the error so the game will play, ive been trying everything i can, ive screwed with the compatibitility, been trying virtual disk (still havent figured out how to utilize it), also been trying to figure out how to do the iso trick but havent figured that out yet either

do i just need to delete the atiumdag.dll files?

Playing the GOG copy on Windows 11.

Tried everything and it just crashes with an error message.

"An error has been detected which prevents the game from continuing.

Press OK to return to Windows"

same issue. what a stupid error message, nothing to work with