I just installed the game and the first message that pops up is that there is a critical error and that it will prevent me from saving to protect my old saves... Anybody know what is going on? I did a verified/repair and that did not fix it at all.

Classic or the Muha remake?
What OS are you on?
Care to post a screenshot of said error?
Or is it a simple box ''critical error'' with no log and/or description?

Try deleting the local folder (c:\Users\<myuser>\AppData\Low Roaming\Muha Games (Better back it up beforehand, just in case)) and restart the game. Maybe that will help.

Aside from that - you can acces some logs via the quick-launcher. Doubtful, but perhaps there is info inside why the critical error appears.

Good luck.

thx for the advise ^^ unfortunately, it did do nothing to solve the problem.

opening the log file, it gives these errors:

[Error]12.01.2025 15:17:21
Unable to read header from archive file: Z:/Games/GOG Galaxy/MuHa Master of Magic/MoM_Data/StreamingAssets/AssetBundles/ab_2dicons.manifest
CRITICAL POINT: 1

[Error]12.01.2025 15:17:21
Failed to read data for the AssetBundle 'StreamingAssets\AssetBundles\ab_2dicons.manifest'.
CRITICAL POINT: 2

[Error]12.01.2025 15:17:21
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
CRITICAL POINT: 3

[Warning]12.01.2025 15:17:24
Missing audio library!

Windows 11 and remake. It is a lot worse as I tried to play a game and none of the assists loaded in. All the portraits remain white, and the settler unit is just a bunch of white polygons. I uninstalled the game and deleted the folder and try again tomorrow.

I should point out that I install it on an external hard drive.

Any solution? i am having the same problem.

This is what worked for me (version 1.109.17.1):

0) Uninstall the game manually
1) Download and install the game + DLC from the offline installers - do not install through Galaxy!
2) After installation, open Galaxy - If the game tries to update, cancel the update
3) Go to Manage Installation --> Configure
4) For the Installation tab, uncheck "Automatically update to newest version"
5) On the DLC tab, make sure all DLC are unchecked
6) Click the OK button to save the changes.

You may need to exit and reopen Galaxy to prevent a never-ending update/fail cycle, but the game does work after this. The error seems to be with the Galaxy update files for the DLC - at least for Rise of the Soultrapped for me, I don't have other one yet. The offline installers work fine.

Edit: You may see one attempt to download the patch when you close/restart Galaxy, but it hasn't killed my install so far, and it doesn't try to update again until the next restart of Galaxy. It's not a perfect workaround, heh.

Edit 2: After a couple of Galaxy restarts, it's now back to trying to update all the time. =(

"Worst case" scenario, run the game outside of Galaxy if it continues to try and update even after all this... =S

Hope this helps. =)

Flynn