<t> Actually my laptop came with 2 video cards - intel and nvidia. All games by default run on the nvidia card. I'll try switching to the intel later and see if that helps at all. The other two suggestions I had tried but no dice.<br/>
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EDIT: I just tried it with the intel card. No difference ...

<t> Ok, hopefully this will be the last issue. <br/>
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First off, I figured out what was going on with the saves. Apparently I had named the theme folder something other than I had before redownloading, so the old saves were looking for a theme that no longer existed. Changing the name back to ...

<t> First of all, thanks for your help and patience, Retreat. <br/>
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There's been some progress. I ended up deleting everything and reinstalling from scratch, including the game itself. This time it actually does open. Weirdly, there is still only one Bacon mod popup instead of the usual two ...

<t> Hey, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the 181r version did not work either. At first neither download was going through, because of windows antivirus. I just went ahead and turned it off while I downloaded and tested. Unfortunately once the exe was downloaded and I got everything set up, I ...

<t> Hey, I've been running this setup with no problems until my pc forced an update a couple of days ago. Today I tried to open up the game for the first time since and it doesn't work. I replaced the Bacon exe with the original and that one seems to work fine, even though it takes long to load up ...