Being a game from many years ago, Big Fish Legend is another title that might have issues running on modern system; especially when it comes to launching it for the first time. Unfortunately, searching for an answer to the game's launch issues does not result in finding it, as neither anyone has mentioned a fix nor the dev has provided any. Let's change this.

Yes, not many play this game, but that's not an excuse to keep valuable information on how to run the game from others. Therefore, let's go through how to identify and fix this game's common launch issues.

Fortunately, the game logs the initialization process and crash reasons in a file on your system. Navigate to this directory on your system:
C:/Users/YourUserName/AppData/Roaming/Igry.ru/Big Fish Legend
Then open log.txt with a text editor. Preferably NotePad.

At the end of the file, you can find the reason for the game not launching. Now let's go over two common error messages you can see in this file.



A needed redistributable is missing on your system. Usually, installing/reinstalling the newest version of DirectX 9 fixes this issue. If you are on Windows 8 and onwards, activate DirectPlay by following the steps here as well:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Troubleshooting_guide/Startup_and_launching_problems#DirectPlay_games_do_not_work_or_prompt_for_DirectPlay_feature.2FDLL
If problem still did not get resolved, search the dll name on the web to find out which redist you miss on your system. Then download and install it from trusted sources.

WARNING: Under no circumstances resort to just downloading the dll file and putting it on your system. You need the whole redist packages to ensure correct behavior from your applications. Not to mention possible malware infections.



The game simply cannot enter fullscreen mode, and just terminates the process instead of showing an error message or anything else. To run the game, you have to manually alter the configuration file and force windowed mode.

Go to this directory:
C:/Users/YourUserName/AppData/Roaming/Igry.ru/Big Fish Legend
Alternatively, you can type %appdata% in windows explorer search bar as well.

Right click on config.xml and choose edit. This will open a new window in NotePad. If not, choose Open With -> NotePad after right clicking on the file.

Find this line: <param name="fullscreen" value="1" />
Then change it into: <param name="fullscreen" value="0" />

Save the changes and try running the game. However, it might run in bizarre resolutions with no way to change them. To fix this, go to the next step.

Unfortunately, Big Fish Legend does not have any resolution options and the config file won't let you change it either. However, we can use a helpful app called DxWnd to make the game run in any resolution we want.
As I have explained how to do this before on another guide, I just link you there. You can find the information you need under Running in windowed mode section
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2981017367
If you want the game to run in fullscreen mode though, you have to uncheck Run in Window and check Fullscreen only under Generic options in the app, or use another program called dgvoodoo. Although I do not recommend playing the game in fullscreen due to possible issues.