Good morning.

So, I just bought Stranger's Wrath from GoG (how surprising!) and I'm sure it's a great game, but I seem to be unable to start it up. As a preamble, I am using an HP Pavillion dv6 notebook PC with an integrated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 (can provide the rest of the specs, naturally.)

The game downloaded and installed fine, but when I attempt to boot it, I'm unable to select any resolution in the drop-down box in the launcher - it is simply left blank. Clicking Play closes the launcher, but does not actually launch the game.
I did a little googling on the issue and created a config.txt file in my Documents/Oddworld/Stranger's Wrath folder containing:

(wall of text, sorry)



"
#(C) Oddworld Inhabitants Inc 2005, 2010-2011
#(C) Just Add Water (Developments) Ltd 2011
# Stranger's Wrath Config File v2

width=1366
height=768
frequency=60
resolution=custom
fullscreen
vsync
anisotropicon
controller="Custom Keyboard + Mouse"

config="Keyboard + Mouse"
strafeleft="A"
straferight="D"
forward="W"
backward="S"
jump="SPACE"
camera="C"
bounty="CONTROL"
punch="V"
shake="E"
reload="Q"
pause="ESCAPE"
inventory="I"
zoom="X"
fire1="MOUSE1"
fire2="MOUSE2"
cameraleft="MOUSEAXISX-"
cameraright="MOUSEAXISX+"
cameraup="MOUSEAXISY+"
cameradown="MOUSEAXISY-"
left="LEFT"
right="RIGHT"
up="UP"
down="DOWN"
select="RETURN"

config="Custom Keyboard + Mouse"
strafeleft="A"
straferight="D"
forward="W"
backward="S"
jump="SPACE"
camera="C"
bounty="CONTROL"
punch="V"
shake="E"
reload="Q"
pause="ESCAPE"
inventory="I"
zoom="X"
fire1="MOUSE1"
fire2="MOUSE2"
cameraleft="MOUSEAXISX-"
cameraright="MOUSEAXISX+"
cameraup="MOUSEAXISY+"
cameradown="MOUSEAXISY-"
left="LEFT"
"

I did this because I found a post on the steam forums where this apparently fixed the issue for somebody. It's not done anything for me, however. I've also tried it with different resolutions in the config, to no avail.

Is this by any chance a common problem? I'm quite stuck here and, of course, I would prefer not to have now spent money on 1.5 gigs of rubbish bin material.
I am suspecting it is something to do with my graphics card because I have run into a whole heap of other random unrelated issues with it over the relatively short time I have had this laptop for. Apparently HP doesn't let you update them properly, yadi yadi ya, but of course they didn't tell me that in the store I bought it from. I'd appreciate any help you are able to give. Thanks!


Edit: Oh! I should really say, if I attempt to boot the game straight through its .exe, my PC has a bluescreen error and crashes, very nasty.

Have you tried updating the driver for your graphics card and Direct X to the latest available versions? You mean the launcher.exe? What error message does the blue screen give you?

I have exactly the same issue on the dv6 laptop, my card is one down from yours but I have exactly the same issues. Any help?

Im having the same problem! Ive run plenty of Gog games and this is the only one that gives me this problem though!