Help Sacred 2 Gold (steam) don't start (startup error)

[gogoblender 3,069]

On 8/18/2022 at 7:18 AM, tamikonatsu said:

Had the same issue, tried everything, nothing worked but this. 

Just adding this to the post in case anyone searches, this worked perfectly for me on Windows 11.  I was getting close to just setting my PS3 up and playing it on there.

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Welcome to the forums tamikonatsu !
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[Sirius 16]

Let me necro this thread a bit:

If you have trouble with the steam version of sacred 2 gold, it's most likely due to nvidia physX being too recent for the game to read.
Uninstall physx, search for and delete all the physx-related files on your pc, and install the one that comes with the game.
That worked wonders for me.

On top of that, I'm using the "-skipopenal -nocpubinding" launch options.

No compability mode on, but I have chosen "disable fullscreen optimizations" and "run as administrator" on the sacred2.exe file in system.

Same for the s2gs.exe file, if that matters.

 

 

I'm not entirely sure if I can play other, newer games without having to reinstall a more recent physx version, but for as long as I'm playing sacred 2, I'm sticking to the old one.