Crash on startup
 

Hi all, new here. Just bought precursors on GamersGate after reading about it on RPS, and I found this forum and all the patches. So I download the patches, run it all in the order it says I should, and now the game starts with a black screen. Any help?

Patch order:
Install vanilla
Russian sound
wesp 1.4 (2nd version? corrected startup error message)

All I get from the game is whatever wooshing noise the intro video makes (idk, black screen) and then it drops back down to the desktop with a big black box covering about a third of the screen.

Edit: Tried patch 1.5, no change.

Really? Not a single reply, not even "well that sucks"?

Wish I could figure this out, or at least get pointed in the right direction, I'm out of ideas and ready to move on to a game that works :/

The game logs errors in a text file, somewhere in the game folder I think. It might contain something useful. And speaking of game folder try installing it somewhere other than C:\program files\…

Turn 'desktop composition' off if using Win7.

Desktop composition did the trick, you're a lifesaver :)

Also: there was no error log even though something obviously went wrong, and I have it installed in a different folder. I never saw anything about turning off Aero (as windows itself calls it) in any other threads. Hope this can help someone else too!

Edit: For future reference, right click on the shortcut or program, select properties, go to the compatibility tab, and check "disable desktop composition"

This is already mentioned in the unofficial patch readme, but I will call it desktop composition for easier reference in the next version.