Blarg

I think I'll give it a few days and see if the problem is fixed when steam updates again. THEN I'll ask for a key. Thanks for your advice, all.

So, the only solution is to wait for Steam to update again? That's frustrating.

I got the steam version Geneforge games during the holiday sale, and started playing them a few days ago. I'm 22 hours into Geneforge 1, and so far I'm pretty impressed. That said, my fun's been cut short.

Whenever I try to launch Geneforge 1, 2, 3, or 4, I get a generic error message saying "A fantasy role-playing game for Windows. has stopped working". Geneforge 5 works, for some reason, but the rest crash on startup. I've never had this problem before, and I'm kind of baffled.

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I've already tried restarting the computer, uninstalling/reinstalling Geneforge, uninstalling/reinstalling Steam, and deleting my Geneforge preferences file (dunno why I thought that would work).

Also, something strange I noticed is that the game seems to be making two copies of the Spiderweb Software saved games folder. One contains my saved games, and the other is full of empty folders. If I delete the empty one, a new one appears when I launch the game again. I don't know if that's related.