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Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Trail_Mystic] #1231478
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Is it possible to find the Druid in the Early Access BG3?

Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: hagatha] #1231481
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Originally Posted by hagatha
I do find the combat in these particular games to be quite grueling at the start so they can be a slog through certain parts.

I've found that to be true of a lot of RPG's.
Even a miserable little rat can kick your butt.
Sometimes I can find save game editors for games (especially older ones) where you can boost your stats slightly -- enough that you can survive more than one rat before having to find somewhere to recharge.
I understand that I can't expect to go to the more dangerous places right from the start.
But really, a little rat in a barn can beat you when you at least have a club to whomp it with?

Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Debra] #1231489
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Originally Posted by Debra
Is it possible to find the Druid in the Early Access BG3?



Yes, the Druid is in the game. It's possible to blow it, though, and not have him in your party.


I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: hagatha] #1231540
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Thanks Hagatha. I'm just not finding him I guess.

Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Trail_Mystic] #1231582
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He is in the Temple in the goblin village, but
he is in bear form, in a cage. You have to help him.


I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: hagatha] #1231599
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Thanks again! I thought I was in the Goblin Village, but I was in the Blighted Village. To be fair there were a lot of Goblins there though!!

Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Jenny100] #1231621
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Originally Posted by Jenny100
Originally Posted by hagatha
I do find the combat in these particular games to be quite grueling at the start so they can be a slog through certain parts.

I've found that to be true of a lot of RPG's.
Even a miserable little rat can kick your butt.
Sometimes I can find save game editors for games (especially older ones) where you can boost your stats slightly -- enough that you can survive more than one rat before having to find somewhere to recharge.
I understand that I can't expect to go to the more dangerous places right from the start.
But really, a little rat in a barn can beat you when you at least have a club to whomp it with?


lol So true. I remember my first BG game, and those rats in the shack in Candlekeep, whacking them with a quarterstaff, I think.

I decided POE is too exhausting for me right now, so I have regressed all the way back to Oblivion for some really easy gameplay.

Back to BG 3 in a couple of days to see how the land lies, though.


I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: hagatha] #1231704
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Yeah, I remember if you play a noble in Dragon Age, one of your quests is to clean the rats out of the pantry. The dialogue from one of the character's accompanying you makes fun of the RPG rat thing after they start to attack by saying, "like the beginning of every bad adventure tale" lol


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Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Trail_Mystic] #1231765
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Still can't launch the game.

The awful thing is that I can't launch Oblivion, either. And Pillars of Eternity sometimes doesn't launch.

I have this awful feeling it's the new laptop, not the games. And my chat session with Razer does not give me confidence...


I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Trail_Mystic] #1231768
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Originally Posted by hagatha
Still can't launch the game.

The awful thing is that I can't launch Oblivion, either.
And Pillars of Eternity sometimes doesn't launch.

Oh no.
Since more than one game is affected, do you think it might be
because of a change in Steam rather than the games?

Originally Posted by hagatha
I have this awful feeling it's the new laptop, not the games. And my chat session with Razer does not give me confidence...

I'm going to guess it's not the fault of the laptop or the individual games.
There might be something "new" that the Steam client is doing before starting
the games though, if all the games are from Steam.

Originally Posted by Trail_Mystic
Yeah, I remember if you play a noble in Dragon Age, one of your quests is to clean the rats out of the pantry. The dialogue from one of the character's accompanying you makes fun of the RPG rat thing after they start to attack by saying, "like the beginning of every bad adventure tale"

I remember some game with rats in a barn, but don't remember which game it was.
The rats whupped my characters' collective behinds, and they weren't even very big rats.
So embarrassing.

Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Trail_Mystic] #1231774
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Jenny, I had trouble launching Red Dead Redemption a while back, too and now Oblivion and BG3. They all do exactly the same thing. The game starts to launch, then there's a black screen that flickers with a smaller screen popping up in the left corner, the game music starts, and then the game crashes. I'll try something from GOG to see what happens.

EDIT: You may be right, Jenny. I downloaded Oblivion from GOG and it's running just fine, fingers crossed. RDR may be a special case anyway because of its requirements.

Too bad I bought the Steam edition of BG3. mad

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Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: hagatha] #1231775
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Originally Posted by hagatha
Jenny, I had trouble launching Red Dead Redemption a while back, too and now Oblivion and BG3. They all do exactly the same thing. The game starts to launch, then there's a black screen that flickers with a smaller screen popping up in the left corner, the game music starts, and then the game crashes.

I tried to do an Internet search for those symptoms, and it does seem to
be a problem caused by the Steam client -- not just with Windows but also
with Mac and Linux.
It's not a new problem either, with some posts going back to 2017 and earlier.
Maybe different issues cause the same problems starting games though.

Suggestions include newer drivers, older drivers, verifying your files,
unencrypting your files, and various other things that people
claim don't work.

Originally Posted by hagatha
I'll try something from GOG to see what happens.

EDIT: You may be right, Jenny.
I downloaded Oblivion from GOG and it's running just fine, fingers crossed.

At least you know the game itself works and you're able to play it.
And that's the game you wanted to play right now anyway.

Originally Posted by hagatha
RDR may be a special case anyway because of its requirements.

Is that the first one or the 2nd one?
The requirements for the first one don't look that high for your Razer.
Of course there might be some other reason it won't start other than
not having the listed requirements.

Originally Posted by hagatha
Too bad I bought the Steam edition of BG3.

Hopefully Steam will fix the problem with their Client.
Or at least produce an easy workaround or alternative way of starting their games.

Have fun playing Oblivion.

Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Trail_Mystic] #1231778
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Hagatha bought Red Dead Redemption 2.

Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Marian] #1231779
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Originally Posted by Marian
Hagatha bought Red Dead Redemption 2.

I still think the Razer should be able to handle it.
Maybe there is some sort of check before starting the game though,
and laptop versions of drivers don't pass the check even though the
laptop itself would have no problem playing the game if the check weren't
blocking it.

At least Oblivion is working.

Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: hagatha] #1231785
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I've been running BG3 along with a number of other games through the Steam client without problem.

That issue you mention sounds suspiciously like a conflict related to resolution and / or a graphics driver or a DirectX issue.

Personally, and this is just me, I would uninstall and reinstall BG3 to see if that helps. I know you installed an earlier version of DirectX, which normally shouldn't cause an issue, but if a reg entry went wonky associated with that, it could play havoc with your display settings.

Also, just checked my settings and I'm running DirectX 12 and haven't hit any major issues.

Just for grins you might want to run dxdiag, just to see if anything pops up in the problem box under Display.


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Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Trail_Mystic] #1231790
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Hey thanks everyone. It all seems a bit too much.

I will say that the GOG version of Oblivion runs perfectly today, whereas the Steam version has not launched even once since I first tried this morning. That's about all the sleuthing I'm able to comprehend at the moment.

But I will try a fresh BG 3 install just to see if that helps.

EDIT: It seems that the only games that crash on load are Steam games. So BG3 is still a no-go.

Last edited by hagatha; 10/26/20 09:44 PM. Reason: Brain fog!

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Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: hagatha] #1232000
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Originally Posted by hagatha
EDIT: It seems that the only games that crash on load are Steam games. So BG3 is still a no-go.

I'm sorry I haven't been able to find a fix for the 2020 version of this Steam launcher
problem (as opposed to the 2018, 2016, and 2014 iterations of the problem).
Some people are able to use a sort of workaround, starting the games
directly from a game exe without the Steam launcher, but most Steam
games can't be launched that way.

At least you have Oblivion to play.
That was lucky that one of the games you wanted to play was on GOG
and didn't have a launcher problem.

Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: hagatha] #1232010
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Originally Posted by hagatha


EDIT: It seems that the only games that crash on load are Steam games. So BG3 is still a no-go.



Bummer, sorry to see that. If you haven't tried a reinstall on the games that are crashing, another couple quick things to try if you haven't yet is clearing the download cache and verifying the game files integrity.

For download cache clearing, click on File, Settings, then Downloads from the Settings menu. Hit the Clear Download Cache button towards the bottom of that window. Now exit and right click on the offending game in your library, bring up properties, go to the Local Files tab and hit the Verify Integrity of Game Files button. Sometimes that helps if a file was damaged or was deleted for whatever reason.

There's also the last ditch option, which is uninstalling the Steam Client, doing a quick disk cleaning and then reinstalling Steam. I haven't personally had to do that, but I'm assuming as long as you have all your appropriate login information available, it would go OK?

TM



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As an FYI, BG3 just got a slightly under 4GB patch today:

Community Update #10, Romance, Numbers and Cinematic Tweaks


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I have reinstalled BG3, and verified all the files (I do that for all my games any time there's an issue) and it's still not launching. I uninstalled the Steam version of Oblivion and installed my GOG version, which runs perfectly even though it's linked to Steam and is using the same game saves.

It does seem to be Steam-related.

I'll try cleaning the cache and uninstalling Steam (my Steam creds are hard-wired into my brain via a mnemonic from my past so I never have trouble getting back in).

Sounds like BG 3 is coming along. I'm eager to get back in, but that said, playing Oblivion is like taking a brain holiday, which is quite nice.


I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
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Originally Posted by hagatha
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Sounds like BG 3 is coming along. I'm eager to get back in, but that said, playing Oblivion is like taking a brain holiday, which is quite nice.




Agreed. I look at Oblivion like that bag of candy that everyone hides in their underwear drawer. lol


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Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: Trail_Mystic] #1232015
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Originally Posted by Trail_Mystic



Agreed. I look at Oblivion like that bag of candy that everyone hides in their underwear drawer. lol


Oblivion is the game I recommend to anyone who wants to start playing RPGs. You can literally level up just by walking around, sneaking around, chatting up the people you meet, selling things, and committing burglaries. Heck, running away nets you Acrobatics points.


I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
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"STOP! YOU VIOLATED THE LAW! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence! Your stolen goods are now forfeit!"

Sorry, couldn't resist. Lost count of the number of times I heard that line in Oblivion lol

We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming grin


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Re: Let's Play Baldur's Gate III - Early Access [Re: hagatha] #1232288
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Originally Posted by hagatha
Originally Posted by Trail_Mystic



Agreed. I look at Oblivion like that bag of candy that everyone hides in their underwear drawer. lol


Oblivion is the game I recommend to anyone who wants to start playing RPGs. You can literally level up just by walking around, sneaking around, chatting up the people you meet, selling things, and committing burglaries. Heck, running away nets you Acrobatics points.


Well I have both Morrowind and Oblivion installed practically permanently .. Just so I can dive in and dabble whenever the mood takes me lol


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Originally Posted by Mad


Well I have both Morrowind and Oblivion installed practically permanently .. Just so I can dive in and dabble whenever the mood takes me lol



The strategy involved in games like BG3 can get a little tiring at times, it's definitely nice to do a "rock'm sock'm" combat action/adventure/rpg to break things up.

I like to get lost in Morrowind too, there's something about the musical themes that really add to the immersion. Been trying to get the Morrowind: Rebirth mod to run, but it's been problematic on Win 10. Thinking I might have to revamp my Win 7 box to get it to play. grin

Maybe we should have a "Let's Play Elder Scrolls" thread running to break things up... Hmmmm.

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