dbes: I have Windows 11 and played the early access extensively. No issues. I downloaded the full game today. When I hit play in the Galaxy app, the play button dulls for a second then turns back to normal, nothing happens at all. If I right click on the actual app in the bin folder and hit run, something opens for less than a second, probably the launcher, then closes again instantly. I tried every suggestion on both the GOG support page and the Larian support page. I can't even submit a bug report because they require a crash log. There's no crash log, because the game never crashes, it just never opens. It's as if you double-clicked on a blank space on the desktop, literally nothing happens. Deleted and re-installed both Galaxy and BG3 3 times. Tried restarting every time.

I flirted with possibly manually installing but the game file downloads are very very slow.

Is this a GOG problem or a Larian problem? Someone needs to step up.

ussnorway: Sounds like a permission problem

Shut down Galaxy fully then right click the galaxy exe and run as admin

Does bg3 now boot at least the Larian launcher?

alcaray: When you say "the actual app", which exe are you talking about? If it is LariLauncher.exe then give bg3.exe or bg3_dx11.exe a try.

Ariss21: https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_3/fix_game_release_is_broken_for_clean_windows_11_install

fix is there.

gog forgot to add the required by game vc redist libs to the release.