Doesn't start on windows 10

[Odinus]

T.T every time i try to open the game only the cursor appare an the music but the game is like a ghost all i can see is my desktop. What can i do T.T soemone help me T.T

[76561198215403317]

Had same problem. Just start Drakensang In Windowed Mode, While video and music Starts Just press ALT+Enter. Working for me

[dlrdgm]

I had the same Problem, and found a fix for that:
You need to download the Windows ADK for Windows 10[developer.microsoft.com] and install it. (version 1703 is for the Creators Update)
then start "Compability Administrator 32 bit" program
Right Click on New Database(1) -> Rename it to "Drakensang"
Right Click on New Drakensang Database entry and choose Create New -> Aplication Fix...
Name of the programm to be fixed: -> "Drakensang"
Name of the vendor for this program: -> "Radon Labs"
Program file location: -> click on Browse... and choose the path of the Drakensang exe file.
click on next 2 times
under compability fixes select "ForceSimpleWindow"
click on Test Run... to check if the Game runns correct then end the Game.
click on next -> under Main Executable select "SIZE="
click on Finish
right click on Custom Databases -> Drakensang and choose install.

Drakensang now should work fullscreen again without errors.
This also applies to "Drakensang the River of Time".

[Boogie Dancer]

Ursprungligen skrivet av dlrdgm:

I had the same Problem, and found a fix for that:
You need to download the Windows ADK for Windows 10[developer.microsoft.com] and install it. (version 1703 is for the Creators Update)
then start "Compability Administrator 32 bit" program
Right Click on New Database(1) -> Rename it to "Drakensang"
Right Click on New Drakensang Database entry and choose Create New -> Aplication Fix...
Name of the programm to be fixed: -> "Drakensang"
Name of the vendor for this program: -> "Radon Labs"
Program file location: -> click on Browse... and choose the path of the Drakensang exe file.
click on next 2 times
under compability fixes select "ForceSimpleWindow"
click on Test Run... to check if the Game runns correct then end the Game.
click on next -> under Main Executable select "SIZE="
click on Finish
right click on Custom Databases -> Drakensang and choose install.

Drakensang now should work fullscreen again without errors.
This also applies to "Drakensang the River of Time".

Thank you for your help and to have solved this problem. For my part I had found another solution as well for DrakenSang 1 & 2 which no longer worked under version 1703 of Windows 10. Solution that consisted of launching the game with the following command line: -autoconfig -windowed -noborder, Then delete the file profile.xml in the Drakensang folder and finally download the Fullscreenizer software. Then just launch the game in windowed mode and launch Fullscreenizer to put the game in full screen ...

[Revelator]

alt+enter many time and you resolve.

[Bundy]

1) Start Drakensang
2) Press Alt+Enter (Window Mode, you should see the Intro)
3) Set in Settings your prefered resolution.
4) Press Alt+Enter to activate fullscreen

Next times it will be still necessary to press Alt+Enter to activate window mode and press Alt+Enter again to return to fullscreen.

[Doctor Hades]

I get a black screen on starting this game and cannot access Task Manager, Alt-Enter does nothing, Alt-Ctrl-Del doesn't work, Alt-F4 doesn't, Alt-Tab neither... I've even deleted the game and redownloaded it... basically once I load this game then all I can do to get back to the desktop is press the reset button on my PC case as nothing else works (I cannot see anything anyway). Annoying,

Windows 10 Pro v1703 64-bit here with an i7-4770K, 16 GB and a GTX 1080 Ti.

[Poddy]

I have added -windowed to game start options. Than i start the tool "Borderless Gaming" and after that the game that i can add dsa.exe in the "BG" Tool as detect automatically. Closed the game and restart it. Game runs now in borderless mode after a ~30 seconds loading time :) I'm also on W-10.

[Erin]

Alt+Enter twice worked for me :).. I did also update dirrectx first like it said to so earlier in the thread.

[Poddy]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Erinelda:

Alt+Enter twice worked for me :).. I did also update dirrectx first like it said to so earlier in the thread.

Yep, i had a HDD crash short after my post. DirectX was installed new after i start the game again. But i have added -windowed before and press ALT+Enter after the game is in the options, no problems to play :)

[BaronSengir]

Alt+Enter doesnt work anymore since the creators update to 1703. And the game runs like crap in windowed mode. No DSR, No AA, no nothing. :( Wrote Feedback to microsoft already. More people need to do that though

[dlrdgm]

Ursprungligen skrivet av SengirShowsU:

Alt+Enter doesnt work anymore since the creators update to 1703. And the game runs like crap in windowed mode. No DSR, No AA, no nothing. :( Wrote Feedback to microsoft already. More people need to do that though

This is why i posted this fix, because after the creators update it's the only thing that worked on my system(Win 10 64bit 1703) to run the game in fullscreen mode.

[Poddy]

I have the Creators Update too and for me it works with -windowed in the start options of the game and ALT+Enter for fullscreen in the Options menue from the game.
No problems with AA and i have activated AF 16x in my NVidia system settings for DSA:D

[Jhea]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Oneeyed:

Start Drakensang in windowed mode:

drakensang.exe -windowed

thx that's exactly what i needed to solve my problem.

now it runs. made the settings i needed, restarted it, and then just press STRG (or CTRL in english) and ENTER and then you have fullscreen again.

:)

[MusicMoto]

Find Drakensang in your game list.
Right click and go into properties.
Go to "set launch options" and paste this in there:
-d3d9 -windowed

[arktyka]

Ursprungligen skrivet av crestfallen:

-windowed worked for me on Windows 10 too - just press Alt + Enter at the start to bring it to fullscreen and enjoy =)

It does work thanks :)