Issues playing the game

[Simplybad]

EDIT: I was unable to post dxdiag due to forum max characters limit so I will provide it if/when it is necessary



Hello! I recently built a computer and installed windows 10 and wanted to play through LoG2 again. But, I have been having issues getting the game to run and I believe it is directx related but I am unsure how to go about fixing this. First when I tried to run the game from Steam I got the error "d3derror createdevice failed:d3derr_invalidcall". My first thought was because of my native display setting being a little odd that it might be the issue so I changed to boot from windowed mode in the log. It was successful and booted the game but the window was very large compared to my display and I wanted to see if I could resize it or even go into fullscreen with the game loaded. When I tried to open the options menu in the home screen the game crashes again and I get the following error:

[string "lib/base.lua"]:0: bad argument #1 to 'find' (string expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'find'
[string "lib/base.lua"]: in function 'count'
[string "Gui.lua"]: in function 'drawTextCentered'
[string "Gui.lua"]: in function 'comboBox'
[string "Settings.lua"]: in function 'options'
[string "Settings.lua"]: in function 'update'
[string "GameMode.lua"]: in function 'update'
[string "Grimrock.lua"]: in function 'display'
[string "Grimrock.lua"]: in main chunk

I will provide the log file and my dxdiag in hopes it can help anyone solve my issues.

=== System Info ===

Game Version: 2.2.4
Computer name: DESKTOP-GH04ICC
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3350P CPU @ 3.10GHz
OS Version: 6.2
OEM ID: 0
Physical CPUs: 4
Logical CPUs: 0
Page Size: 4096
Total Mem: 8141 MB
Free Mem: 5645 MB

=== GPUs ===

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Device string: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
State flags: 08080005

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY2
Device string: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
State flags: 00080000

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY3
Device string: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
State flags: 00080000

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY4
Device string: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
State flags: 00080000

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY5
Device string: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
State flags: 00080000

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY6
Device string: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
State flags: 00080000

=== Settings ===

Render Engine: d3d9
Audio Engine: xaudio2
Steam: true
Resolution: 1360 x 768
Display Mode: ??? (0)
Vertical Sync: enabled (2)
Texture Resolution: high (3)
Texture Filter: anisotropic (3)
Shadow Quality: high (3)
SSAO Quality: high (3)
Rendering Quality: high (2)
Max Draw Distance: 1000.000000
Difficulty: normal
Oldschool Mode: false
Touchscreen Mode: false

=== Software Failure ===

[string "lib/base.lua"]:0: bad argument #1 to 'find' (string expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'find'
[string "lib/base.lua"]: in function 'count'
[string "Gui.lua"]: in function 'drawTextCentered'
[string "Gui.lua"]: in function 'comboBox'
[string "Settings.lua"]: in function 'options'
[string "Settings.lua"]: in function 'update'
[string "GameMode.lua"]: in function 'update'
[string "Grimrock.lua"]: in function 'display'
[string "Grimrock.lua"]: in main chunk

[Dr.Disaster]

I've seen this LoG2 error message before. It turned out to be a corrupt "grimrock.cfg" file, prolly due to editing which left behind invisible characters. To resolve this delete the file and then start the game so it get's re-created with default values.

For reference: http://steamcommunity.com/app/251730/di ... 199278639/

[Simplybad]

That unfortunately did not seem to fix it

[Dr.Disaster]

This line

Display Mode: ??? (0)

tells that there is something fishy going on with the game's config file.

The parameter "displayMode" is either 1 (default), 2 or 3; it's never 0 or anything else. Either your "grimrock.cfg" was manually tempered with or the game could not write the file correctly due to system interference i.e. insufficient access rights, bad user profile ...

[Simplybad]

I had said in the original post that I had manually changed the config file to boot in windowed mode, it was the only way I could get the game to successfully start without crashing. I just rechecked and the only thing I changed was the display from 1 to 0

[minmay]

Windowed mode is 2, not 0. Try that.

[Dr.Disaster]

On top of that do not use text processing programs to edit the config file. Use a plain text editor like Notepad to modify the config file.