Game crashes after finishing training mission

[Aura]

Hi everyone. My game crashes the moment that I finish the training missing with an "Engine Error" with listed reason "[Blink] Error opening file : Error opening file.. Skipping video" Does anyone know how to fix this?

I have the Unlimited Edition mod and Large Address Aware mod installed.
CPU: AMD FX-6300
GPU: Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570
OS: Windows 10

[Genesis]

Sounds like a cutscene file is missing/corrupted. I'd verify game cache.

[Aura]

Originally posted by Genesis:

Sounds like a cutscene file is missing/corrupted. I'd verify game cache.

Unfortunately, that didn't work. I tried to reinstall the game too and that didn't help either.

[5M0k1N]

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dark_Messiah_of_Might_and_Magic#Skip_intro_videos
maybe that could help. if not try running it as admin, compatibility mode and teh such

[Aura]

Originally posted by 5M0k1N:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dark_Messiah_of_Might_and_Magic#Skip_intro_videos
maybe that could help. if not try running it as admin, compatibility mode and teh such

This doesn't seem to have helped either. -novid didn't help, admin mode didn't help and using compatibility mode (Win XP SP2) prevented the game from launching.

[Sunspot]

What's the content of your "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Messiah Might and Magic Single Player\mm\gameinfo.txt"

Are you sure the unlimited edition mod is loaded correctly? In my case I had to reorder the file a bit if I remember correctly...

The relevant section looked like this for me:

SearchPaths
{
Game mm_root
Game custom
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game mm
Game unlimitededition
}

[Aura]

Originally posted by Sunspot:

What's the content of your "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Messiah Might and Magic Single Player\mm\gameinfo.txt"

Are you sure the unlimited edition mod is loaded correctly? In my case I had to reorder the file a bit if I remember correctly...

The relevant section looked like this for me:

SearchPaths
{
Game mm_root
Game custom
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game mm
Game unlimitededition
}

That's how mine looks

[=CrimsoN=]

Try this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2100/discussions/0/1629665087673220699/

Dark Messiah Might and Magic crashes like crazy for me until I used a 4gb/Large Address Aware patcher on the game to get it to recognize more than 2gb of RAM. Haven't gotten any crashing since.

[Aura]

Originally posted by ⟨︎Dusk🌙Mantle⟩:

Try this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2100/discussions/0/1629665087673220699/

Dark Messiah Might and Magic crashes like crazy for me until I used a 4gb/Large Address Aware patcher on the game to get it to recognize more than 2gb of RAM. Haven't gotten any crashing since.

Unfortunately, that's also done nothing for me. I still get the same crash error. I also mentioned that I had that installed in my OP ;P

[=CrimsoN=]

Originally posted by Aura:

Originally posted by ⟨︎Dusk🌙Mantle⟩:

Try this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2100/discussions/0/1629665087673220699/

Dark Messiah Might and Magic crashes like crazy for me until I used a 4gb/Large Address Aware patcher on the game to get it to recognize more than 2gb of RAM. Haven't gotten any crashing since.

Unfortunately, that's also done nothing for me. I still get the same crash error. I also mentioned that I had that installed in my OP ;P

Oh sorry!!! I missed that! Not sure what to tell to you then op

[Aura]

Originally posted by ⟨︎Dusk🌙Mantle⟩:

Oh sorry!!! I missed that! Not sure what to tell to you then op

No worries! I appreciate you trying though

[withered]

maybe you're using wrong version of da game. The UE mod was written mostly for steam version of "DM". Ask the mod author for verification.

[Sunspot]

What's the content of your C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Messiah Might and Magic Single Player\mm\media directory? I had some french *.bik files in it instead of my localized ones (english) which cause the same crash you describe. I deleted them and now the game runs flawless though without cutscenes. BINK playback with DMOMAM always sucked. Maybe you need to install an updated version of BINK dlls?

Btw. I just put them back in place from a backup I made of them and they caused this issue...

[Aura]

Originally posted by withered:

maybe you're using wrong version of da game. The UE mod was written mostly for steam version of "DM". Ask the mod author for verification.

I have the Steam version so this isn't likely to be the problem.

Originally posted by Sunspot:

What's the content of your C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Messiah Might and Magic Single Player\mm\media directory? I had some french *.bik files in it instead of my localized ones (english) which cause the same crash you describe. I deleted them and now the game runs flawless though without cutscenes. BINK playback with DMOMAM always sucked. Maybe you need to install an updated version of BINK dlls?

Btw. I just put them back in place from a backup I made of them and they caused this issue...

Removing the videos from the Media folder seems to have worked! Thank you for the suggestion. Though, do you know where I might get an updated version of BINK dll files?

[Sunspot]

No... I'm looking into a fix myself. I wonder those video files should be included in one of the vpks if I'm not mistaken. I wonder why they were in the media folder in the first place. However when I use steam to download the game afresh I will tell you what it drops in there...

[hexaae]

Nobody ever reads the Guide sections?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=307579490
If the game crashes with Bink video errors probably it's something messed up with your video codecs installation in conflict with this game...