Hello,

I have 2 questions, hopefully someone knows what's going on.

1) My Baldur's Gate 3 crashes after finishing the first loading screen. This is before mods were ever introduced. It took me hours to find a thread suggesting launching the .exe from the folder as admin, and if I do that, it doesn't crash. So I went into properties and enabled "Run as Admin", however, launching through Galaxy or the desktop shortcut doesn't seem to run it as admin despite those changes. That means I'm constantly crashing unless I go into my folder and load it from there. Anyone know how to fix this? Tried Vulcan and DX12.

2) I want to mod my game just a little, mostly with new character creation options like hair and colors. After I figured out the crashing issue (but not entirely solved it) I tried it out. I used Candor Mod Manager, and tried to enable mods through it. I get a complaint that "modsettings.lsx does not exist". I went into my profile, and the file is definitely there. I've tried completely reinstalling the game (deleting all documents folders and appdata folders for both Candor and Larian Studios) and redownloading Candor + relaunching to create a new profile, but the modding issue persists. I'm on the latest patch, if that helps.

Thank you for reading! :)

EDIT

Yes, it seems to be an issue with GOG Galaxy not launching the game. It launches fine through the folder itself. I tried to check to see if I can alter the direct path inside of Galaxy, but I cannot. :(

I would [and do] run Galaxy as admin... not the game itself

as a temp test [assuming Windows] you can open Galaxy normal, the right click the tab to open options and finally right click the 'Gog Galaxy' to get a run as admin... this will be a one off and allows testing [see image Galaxy]

if you want to run it as admin all the time [see image Galaxy 2] then you are best to perm set it as admin

yes Galaxy can be set to run custom game exe setttings by default [see image Galaxy 3] however modding what amounts to an altha build is a waist of time ime and waiting a few years for the real game to ship is going to be better but its your game mate so as long as you are having fun it can't really hurt

Hello,

I will try your suggestion for running GOG Galaxy as admin. I hope that resolves the crashing issues. I'll report back/edit when I've done the step.

And yea, I should wait, but I've run out of games of interest to play, so this looks appealing right now. lol

EDIT

Well...that works, sort of. It will now launch BD3 DX11 through Galaxy without crash. However, the Vulkan one refuses to launch/not crash at all. :(

And I found the solution to the mod issue. I was putting the directory to my modsettings.lsx into the file incorrectly. Every person I read that said to do this, failed to specify that it needs double \ between the words. I'll link to the solution that I found on Nexus Mods.

(see post #22 by Jabokk, it's stickied)
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/22?tab=posts

I was having isues with the Vulkan dll's.... See this thread for what fixed it for me:
https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_3/larian_launcher_hangs

Hello,

My card supports Vulkan. I have a RTX 2060 Super KO. I'll try the fix, but if it works that would be rather disappointing that I cannot use Vulkan. I have, however, contacted support to let them know about this and they took my crash reports, logs and system information and said they'd send it over to the people responsible for it. So...here's hoping?

I'll go try the Vulkan fix now. I'll report back when it is done.

EDIT

That certainly allows DX11 to launch without admin. What a bizarre solution.

Glad it worked for you. I only happened on it by accident myself.