Game crashes on loading...

[Gavindale Marchovia]

I tried to load Sacred Gold, and on the initial loading screen, the game crashes and the image on my screen freezes. I waited to see if maybe the game were loading a certain font or something, but nothing happened I had to push the windows button to back out of that frozen loading screen. Can someone help me?

[HiFive]

Here is some stuff from previous threads about this topic:

6/13/2020 posted by HiFive
From your Steam Library, right click on Sacred Gold. Choose "Properties". Now click on the "Local Files" tab. Choose "Browse Local Files", then double-click on "Config". Now check all the appropriate boxes.

If that doesn't work, there are a few other steps you can add to the routine (per someone else):

Right-click the game button in the library and select Properties.
Go to Local Files.
Check the integrity of the game files.
Browse Local Files.
Open Config.exe.
Change the ticks so that only 32 Bit Color Depth,Filter Active ,Filter (Anti-aliasing), and Video Compatibility Mode are.
Right-click Sacred.exe and select Properties.
Go to Compatibility and check Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 2).
It should work now.


Another person:

Here's how I got Sacred Gold running on Windows 10 64bit w/ a Nvidia GTX 670. I am running the retail copy which was already patched to 2.28 though.

1) Went to Sacred Gold installation folder and clicked on Config.exe

2) Set color mode to 32Bit.

3) Turned OFF all compatibility modes.

4) Disabled run as Administrator.

Booted up in full screen/widescreen no problem in like 5 seconds. Previously it would freeze on the loading screen when it got to "Fonts" with XP SP2/3 compatibility mode.

Hope this helps.


Another person:

Disabling full screen got it to work for me.

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Another person with a more complete guide about additional fixes:

Shaidon has Sacred Gold 16 hours ago
Got the game running nicelly on Windows 10
I checked some guides here and did some testing, and this is what is working for now:

1. go to http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html and download the last stable dgVoodoo. What was version 2.61.
2. copy dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to the game installation folder. I think the folder doesn't matter, but why not?
3. copy all dll from the MS\x86 folder to your game installation folder (D3D8.dll, D3D9.dll, D3DImm.dll, DDraw.dll).
4. I overwriten the D3D9.dll with the one from the x64 folder as well, not sure is if better or not.
5. go to the Sacred Gold installation folder and execute Config.exe. Only have Fullscreen, Play Movies, 32 Bit Color Depth, Sound Activated toggled. Filter Active (AA) will create some blue lines in a few areas, and VCM will black screen videos.
6. execute dgVoodooCpl.exe that you set in the installation folder. At the top click Add and select the Sacred Gold Installation folder.
7a. at the general tab I selected my video card (Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti), and at Full Screen Output, DISPLAY1.
7b. Appearance: Fullscreen, although Windowed would make no difference. Scaling Mode at Stretched 4:3 Aspect Ratio. Other options will make the visuals look darker or too small and stretched.
8a. at DirectX tab keep dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card, change the VRAM if you want, I set mine to 2048 Mb.
8b. Texture: Filtering set to App driven, Resolution Unforced, Antialiasing (MSAA) Off. Any of these 3 options will break the textures of the game by creating some grid lines. I used the Nvidia Control Panel to toggle the filtering options, although didn't noticed any huge difference.
Remember to click on apply/OK after all the changes.
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another person

5/11/2020
Mr.Krant has Sacred Gold
Add a new line with "WAITRETRACE : 0" without the quotes to your Settings.cfg and STEAM_Settings.cfg files inside the Sacred Gold folder.

[=Ost180=Hoshinohi]

For all Windows 64bit users;

Right-click the game button in the library and select Properties.
Go to Local Files.
Browse Local Files.
Open Config.exe.
Change 32 Bit Color Depth to be active!!

close the config and start the game nothing more to do.

The only reason the game will freeze is that it is in fact a 32bit version so any Windows 64 bit versions will not work before you force the game to run 32 bit.

[lean1fr]

I managed to get the game to run by forcing it to 32bit, but there are graphic glitches that make it impossible to play. It's mandatory to also use the DgVoodoo trick

[HiFive]

For me, I only needed to change change it to 32-bit, and it works fine, thankfully.