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Right click on the Sacred.exe in the Steam folders. Check to 'Run as Admin' and also 'Compatibility for Windows 7' and that should help. Also, are you running a computer with dual graphics cards (such as a laptop that has a built-in Intel HD graphics chip AND an add-on NVidia or AMD GPU)? If so, there is a whole other process you need to do to get the game to run because for some stupid reason Win 8 and Win 10 both ONLY USE THE STUPID INTEL CHIP by default, and the Intel chip was never meant for video games, only for checking email and maybe watching a DVD. Let me know if this is your situation and I will post the process for you. Originally posted by:Right click on the Sacred.exe in the Steam folders. Check to 'Run as Admin' and also 'Compatibility for Windows 7' and that should help.
Also, are you running a computer with dual graphics cards (such as a laptop that has a built-in Intel HD graphics chip AND an add-on NVidia or AMD GPU)? If so, there is a whole other process you need to do to get the game to run because for some stupid reason Win 8 and Win 10 both ONLY USE THE STUPID INTEL CHIP by default, and the Intel chip was never meant for video games, only for checking email and maybe watching a DVD.
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Let me know if this is your situation and I will post the process for you. Very strange. Works fine through Steam for me, after I set the run as admin and the compatibility mode, and then I had to go into my NVidia (or AMD if you are running a Radeon) Command Center to force it to run on my 3d gaming GeForce card instead of using the crappy built-in Intel HD graphics. Perhaps it is the location where you have your Steam files? Windows - by default - tries to install EVERYTHING into the 'Program Files' folder on your hard drive, which is hard-coded by Windows to have all of its contents locked as 'Read-Only' and you need special permissions to change any of the folder contents.
Sometimes this iron-fisted control-freak nature of Windows over its Program Files folder can cause strange things to happen when you try to save your game, or when you try to run your game, or when you try to setup options in the config program before you run your game. For that reason, since Windows 2000 and NT first came out, I have intentionally avoided installing anything related to video games to the 'Program Files' directory.
Also, I am working with a small-ish hard drive on my system by today's standards (but it was great when I bought it five years ago) so right now all of my gaming stuff is kept on an external drive. That way I can totally avoid issues with Windows being picky about 'Program Files' and save space on my laptop's hard drive for work-related stuff.
Even then, I still get a 'Would you like to allow 'This Program' to make changes to your system?' Message every time I try to run a game. Windows has taken extraordinary measures to make everyone who uses their software feel like an idiot. It could actually be an issue with a corrupt 'Fonts' file then. Try - and there are no guarantees here, you might even make it worse so please don't blame me if this goes wrong - but try going into the Steam Steamapps Common SacredGold Fonts folder and delete the files there. Then try to 'verify' the game files from your steam library menu, it should re-download those files and maybe this time the files will actually be intact.
Aside from that, I'm not sure if I can give you any other advice on this one except the one that everybody always tells me which makes me feel like they think I'm an idiot: 'Update your graphics card drivers.' Oh I've just remembered something else though. There is a way to download a 'Legacy Driver Patch' for your graphics card. Some of the older games (pre-2010 at least) use a different dll file organization structure than the newer games and the newest NVidia drivers actually moved some of the files around so the older games don't recognize the dll anymore. This usually causes a hang at startup/load, if the game will even let you open the exe without spitting up an error message. The way to do that is to go through the NVidia support website (sorry I don't remember specific details from when I did it) and get the most recent drivers installed first. Then you follow their instructions to install and activate the legacy patch.
That way your newer games will still run great, plus your older games (like Sacred and Psychonauts) will have their dlls located in the folder they expect to find instead of the new setup. This also might not be the exact cause of your problem here, but it's literally the only other thing I can think of.
After hours and hours of searching for information and no results, I was able to find a very kind gentleman on Youtube who had the perfect solution. I give him credit to this fix, and is very easy, here is how to do it: Step 1: Make sure all your files are validated, to do this right click on your game, say properties, then local files, then verify game cache. This will take a few minutes, but it is vital for this to work.
Step 2: Open up your game file after validation and do the following: -Click on LaptopGamingvista, and change the.dll to.BACKUP (as follows with caps) -Do the same thing for LaptopGamingxp Step 3: Right click on s2gs, go to properties, compatiblity, and change compatibility to Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and click run as an administrator. Click apply and ok, and then do it for the sacred2 application. Step 4: Once that is done, make a shortcut inside of the system file for Sacred 2, to do this, right click on the application and say create shortcut. Step 5: Right click on the shortcut and put in the following in the target location- -skipopenal (The space is NEEDED!
DO NOT SKIP THIS!) Step 6: Click apply and ok and the game should run. Note: This is for Windows 7 64 bit systems, I am not sure how this will work with other operating systems. If something changes, please let me know. Hope this helps! €dit: This may be THE solution!
Tested it from early lvl 71 to 72 on Plat without any crashes. Memory usage goes max around 1,4xx GB. Step 1: Make sure all your files are validated, to do this right click on your game, say properties, then local files, then verify game cache. This will take a few minutes, but it is vital for this to work.
Step 2: Open up your game file after validation and do the following: -Click on LaptopGamingvista, and change the.dll to.BACKUP (as follows with caps) -Do the same thing for LaptopGamingxp Step 3: Right click on s2gs, go to properties, compatiblity, and change compatibility to Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and click run as an administrator. Click apply and ok, and then do it for the sacred2 application.
Step 4: Once that is done, make a shortcut inside of the system file for Sacred 2, to do this, right click on the application and say create shortcut. Step 5: Right click on the shortcut and put in the following in the target location- -skipopenal (The space is NEEDED!
DO NOT SKIP THIS!) Step 6: Click apply and ok and the game should run. Note: This is for Windows 7 64 bit systems, I am not sure how this will work with other operating systems. If something changes, please let me know. Hope this helps! Ultimate vocabulary trial. Snowball to share this with us on SteamHub:) I've tested it out and it doesn't help.:/ FYI '-skipopenal' is only to not allow sacred to check your soundcard because there are some issues with X-Fi Audio Card for example.
Afaik did steam always start applications with adminrights? You guys can also check out this. I've had the game for about a year. It's crashed about every 15 minutes since I've started, which is no biggie. I've got about 15-20 minutes until it starts to studder, then about 2 mins to log out before I have to do the whole ctrl alt delete deal. Not a big deal, I play on my days off, so I consider it like an ingame timer. 15 mins to play, then get up to do a little housework, 15 more mins, then a few reps on my weight machine, etc.
What I find slightly annoying is after about 1500+ hours, I have.what do you call it, data leak? I got on one day, and one of my toons was at a level far beneath what he was when I went to bed. Granted, I have about 89 toons to keep track of, but I'm sure he wasn't at level 15, this is my main guy.I'm a huge Hot Tub Time Machine fan, so I named him 'Lou, Patron Saint of the Totally Fu.ed'. So any other character I might not have been quite as sure about, but Lou is the one that I'm sure lost levels. However, since April, my fiance and I have had to deal with the heartbreak of stillbirth, so I thought 'maybe it's just me, I do kind of have my head and heart in other places right now'. So, I made a microsoft word document, listing levels and equipment for everyone. The verdict is in.yup, losing levels on my toons some times.
The strange thing is this isn't really a deal-breaker for me. Anything else would have gotten a huge middle finger by now. I love the crap out of Titan Quest, the Underlord mod is epic. But if I would have gotten ctd, freezes, and data lost with that game, I would have left it in the dust. Hell, even without the ctd and stuff, 1500+ hours is a long time for me to be playing just one game.
Skyrim, for example. I've modded that to crap and back. I have nude bath houses, Predator, Conan, assault rifles, sexy armor, new quests and weapons, hell I have beautiful women walking around with killer jugs.
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I can even walk up to someone and be intimate with their wife while they stand there and have a conversation with me. I can bend Ulfric Stormcloak right over and sodomise him with a pink strap-on next to his throne. But even Skyrim with guns and boobs and Predator and whatnot couldn't hold my attention like Sacred 2 does. As much as I love Sacred 2, it's my opinion there are indeed bugs. Unlike al Qamar, I'm not quite a certified computer expert. However, I've taken my Alienware to 3 computer experts. These aren't just guys I picked out of the phonebook, or some random guys I picked out that were standing behind the help desk at BestBuy, these are dudes I served in the military with, guys I trust, who I know are squared away.
Granted, they weren't computer technicians in the service, they were FMF Corpsmen, But they got their computer certifications in the civilian wrold, these are guys who know their stuff. They tried to get this to run without the ctd after 15 mins on my Alienware, Acer, Toshiba, they've even tried it on their computers, ranging from slightly out of date models, to the latest and greatest models.
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I know all the patches and fixes and whatnot, I'm not new to tweaking games. I've never had a system that couldn't run the game, but on the same token I've never seen the game run without the ctd/freeze after 15mins-half hour. I'm not a fanboy (or boi or however they spell it now), nor am I a hater. I'm not biased to the point where I'd say 'the game runs fine, if you're having problems, it's your system's fault, not the game's' nor would I say 'Sacred 2 is the buggiest piece of crap ever released'. What I can say is the game runs on my Alienware M15, my Acer Aspire, and my Toshiba. I can't run the game flawlessly, but I like it enough to work around those flaws.
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