Whisky 11 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Hay guys, my brother and I got sacred gold for steam not to long ago and we have encountered a weird glitch. When starting up the game, 9 times out of 10 the game will freeze when loading the fonts. We have more modern windows 10 laptops and we have no idea what causes this glitch. Also when loading the disc version on our old windows 7 laptops, the glitch has never happened. Any ideas? -Whisky Link to comment
Hooyaah 2,823 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 It seems that many who are running (trying to run) Steam versions of Sacred 2 Gold are having some startup issues. I'm linking a thread below that helps (I hope) troubleshoot the problem of the game not loading. Please be sure to check the links to the topic in the Steam fora as well. Link to comment
Whisky 11 Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 13 minutes ago, Hooyaah said: It seems that many who are running (trying to run) Steam versions of Sacred 2 Gold are having some startup issues. I'm linking a thread below that helps (I hope) troubleshoot the problem of the game not loading. Please be sure to check the links to the topic in the Steam fora as well. thanks for the heads up about sacred 2 but I was referring to sacred 1 gold. Sacred 1 will start up and go though the dev screens and get to the loading bar screen but it will freeze 9/10 times when it states that it's loading fonts. Link to comment
Hooyaah 2,823 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 You may want to check the Steam fora for discussions related to your issue. Hopefully, you will find a solution there. 1 Link to comment
Serboi 29 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 I used to have this issue occasionally with older cards. I have 4 solutions - Restart PC and start it like that. - Enter Config and enable 32bit. Disable video compability mode and disable "Windows compatibility" of any kind. - Open config settings in MyDocuments folder or Sacred folder (where the saves are located) and edit Settings.cfg. Change the following if they are represented by zeroes : FONTAA : 1 FONTFILTER : 1 FONTPAGES : 1 GFX : 1 LANGUAGE : US - Reinstall the game altogether and check the Steam file integrity. Install the game strictly into C: partition. All of the above might or might not solve the issue. Of course one of the easiest solutions is to simply run the game in the Windowed mode. 1 Link to comment
Thorium 115 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 (edited) Basically don't touch anything, while it starts up or it will freeze. Don't click on anything, don't minimize steam until you see the main screen. The Steam overlay will also freeze Sacred for the time it's displayed. Edited April 19, 2018 by Thorium Link to comment
Thorium 115 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 You can patch it to unofficial 2.29, to get rid of the steam overlay freezes. You still need to set it to 32bit in config.exe to get it to not freeze on startup. To patch the Steam version of Sacred Gold to 2.29, just extract the .exe from this zip into your Sacred folder and use it to start the game instead of starting it over Steam. Example path to the Sacred Gold installation: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sacred Gold" Link to comment
tipsterdad 5 Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 There is an easy fix for this problem...go into your Program filesx86, steam folder, steam apps, common, Sacred gold, config, and change your color settings to 32 bit. All should be fine after that. I saw it posted here, but I figured I would post the path to get there. It should be all you need to do. I am running win10 64 bit pro, GTX1060, and ssd's in raid mirror. Game starts so fast it goes straight to log-in. Runs great for me, no issues other than game bugs which I am going to post a video of one that keeps happening to me. Pretty comical! 1 Link to comment
Delta! 987 Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Downloading and installing the newest community patch has fixed that for me... so far. I have had a different problem than you guys, but also running it on Windows 10, and bought it on steam 1 Link to comment
Popular Post Thorin Oakshield 260 Posted August 25, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted August 25, 2018 On 9-5-2018 at 11:17 PM, tipsterdad said: There is an easy fix for this problem...go into your Program filesx86, steam folder, steam apps, common, Sacred gold, config, and change your color settings to 32 bit. All should be fine after that. I saw it posted here, but I figured I would post the path to get there. It should be all you need to do. I am running win10 64 bit pro, GTX1060, and ssd's in raid mirror. Game starts so fast it goes straight to log-in. Runs great for me, no issues other than game bugs which I am going to post a video of one that keeps happening to me. Pretty comical! THIS!!! Has made my life so much better. I usually was playing Sacred: UW / Gold at my laptop when visiting my parents. And usually that game started or froze; there simply was no other option. And the latter happened a lot more as the first, occasionally making my gaming experience a hell. Having the same problem at my PC, I didn't even care to hope to play this game again. However............. I changed the settings today, tried to launch a game at my PC and it ran flawlessly. In fact, it seemed the black bars at the side were even a bit smaller as they used to be before upgrading my system to Win10. I've been running around a bit in Ancaria, playing a Dwarf of which all of you might guess the name and the game ran without any problems. Looks like I've got some very long nights ahead of me in the future as well as the certainty that I'm able to play this game when visiting my parents, when we're trying to enjoy our various computer games. Thorin 2 Link to comment
thejynxed 30 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 For anyone running Win10: You might run into issues ever since Microsoft added "Game Mode" in one of the yearly updates. It causes issues even with modern titles, it certainly does with many older titles. I found to continue playing Sacred or Sacred 2, I had to disable it by going to Compatibility Settings and checking the box for "Disable Fullscreen Optimizations". 1 Link to comment
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