How do I run on windows 10?

[Mommy Sweets]

Ok, so everytime I try to play this game it crashes right when the loading screen appears with about only an inch of red. It will have the windows bar up over it but wont let me open anything, not even the Windows Task Manager, the only thing I was able to do when it crashes is restart my PC. I have tried updating my GPU drive, turning my PC off and then back on, uninstalling and reinstalling. But nothing works please help?

[Pullmybeard]

Hi This worked for me :
*1- Go into the file location of Sacred Gold. Mine is D:\games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Sacred Gold.

*2- Run config. exe

*3- Tick 32 bit color, Filter Active (anti-alasing), and Video Comapatiblity Mode.

*4- Hit ok

Works on my windows 10, good luck

[liaojing]

do as told, win10 X64 engligh version, can not start, saying "application load error(0x03).

[a-sontopski]

It runs on my win 10 when i used the Testapp.exe to start the Game.
Its in the Sacred Folder.

[Mommy Sweets]

thanks for the helps :)

[Mr. Moyer]

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.

[The King Possum]

THANKS, this worked for me. windows 10 64-bit OS just bought game today and was stuck on loading screen at fonts.

Originally posted by a-sontopski:

It runs on my win 10 when i used the Testapp.exe to start the Game.
Its in the Sacred Folder.

[The King Possum]

compat mode on xp and as admin, the default trobleshooter worked for me, THANKS.

Originally posted by dj_moyer:

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.

[The King Possum]

just a quick side not, I cannot start game by clicking on steam start button. I must go to the file and run it in the two affore mentioned ways that worked. seems like steam is the main problem of the game for me.

[Mr. Moyer]

Hmmm... 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.

[RockstR]

I tried everything thats written here, installed it in D:/ instead of C:/, run as admin an in comapt. mode, run using nVidia GPU... but it still crashes while loading 'Fonts'. Any other ideas?

[Mr. Moyer]

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."

[Mr. Moyer]

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.

[RockstR]

Thanks, but i got it runnig in window mode, and the i used a German-Language Patch, now its also working in Fullscreen, but thanks :D

[Mr. Moyer]

Glad to hear you got it running. :)