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Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep

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First post, by Shagittarius

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Okay we all know this is probably the best name for a dungeon crawler ever but I can't find a machine that can run this stable. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with this game? I've run it on both my modern win 11 and a win 10 system.

The Win 11 system runs for about 1 minute then exits to Windows without any message. This happens no matter what is going on, watching the intro movie, or sitting on the main menu, after about 1 minute it exits.

The Win 10 system doesn't have the 1 minute crashing problem but when I try to go into the settings it crashes with a render time out error.

This is a modern system enigma, has anyone had any luck with this game?

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Some specs of the systems:

Win 11:

i9 12900k , RTX 4090, 32GB Ram

Win 10:

Xeon 5690 , GTX 780ti

Reply 1 of 4, by newtmonkey

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I completed both this and the Director's Cut version without a problem back in 2019 and 2020. This was on a Windows 10 laptop with i7-7700, GTX 1050ti, and 32GB RAM. Maybe some bug has been added since then?

Reply 2 of 4, by Shagittarius

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Was running the GOG version, just realized I have the director's cut on steam gonna try that one.

Reply 3 of 4, by Shagittarius

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It looks like the Director's Cut works fine. Thanks for pointing out the different versions it made me look again.

Reply 4 of 4, by newtmonkey

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Good to hear! The Director's Cut is actually a major improvement over the original, so I'd definitely recommend that version.

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