Mount and Blade Warband is something that surely every single strategy RPG fan has heard of by now even if they haven’t played it. It’s easily one of the best in its genre, and became so popular back when it initially released that it was providing competition to the original Mount and Blade game.
For those that aren’t familiar, Mount and Blade Warband serves as an expansion pack for said original game. This expansion pack was also available as a standalone title and it added a lot to the base game while being great even on its own.
There were intriguing new strategies to explore, new enemy types, new battles to be fought, and much more of the sort. The game is very much still alive even today, meaning that all of this is still there to be enjoyed by any new or returning players.
However, some of said new or returning players might encounter issues with the game nowadays. This include issues such as the Mount and Blade Warband generic application error. Try out the solutions we have compiled in the list below to see if they help solve the issue.
Fixing the Mount and Blade Warband Generic Application Error
- Restart Computer
One of the best and perhaps the easiest as well as surprisingly effective solution for this annoying issue is to restart your device. There are many who joke about how simply restarting can be the answer to everything, but this isn’t necessarily a joke.
When it comes to computer related problems and specifically any issues with certain programs, restarting the computer can definitely help out a lot. This is the case in this specific scenario too.
If this is the first time that players are encountering this problem with the game, we recommend starting it up once more to see if the issue persists. If it does, we further recommend trying to restart the computer after closing and saving any important files.
Once the reboot is complete, start up Mount and Blade Warband, but make sure to do so while running it as an administrator by right clicking on its logo and clicking on the associated option.
- Specify Resolution
Another fix that is surprisingly effective is changing the desired resolution for the game. This is a solution meant specifically for every player of the game that uses the desktop resolution setting and is encountering this issue.
While it is helpful that the game itself can adjust the display to your monitor’s exact resolution, this feature is also one that can cause a lot more problems that it solves at times. This scenario is an example of this.
That said the solution is pretty straightforward. Just try to get through the intro video somehow and going into the options immediately before the error occurs. From within these options, locate the ones related to display and specify what resolution is best for a user’s monitor rather than letting the game decide that. Once the correct resolution is chosen, players will likely be able to enjoy playing without any further issues.
- Intro Video Error
There are many who encounter this issue because of the recently mentioned intro video in the first place. Try to watch the whole thing instead of skipping it straight away to see if that worked. Alternatively, try skipping it if you usually let the whole thing play to see if that prevented the error from popping up this time around. Either way the intro video could potentially be the one to blame for this problem.
The solution is simple enough. There’s just a specific file related to the intro video which needs to be gotten rid of immediately. It will be named something along the lines of binkplay.exe and will be somewhere around the Mount and Blade Warband installation folder. Just delete this and restart the game to see if it works this time, which it should.
- Reinstall the Game
The last solution isn’t one that we need to go into too much detail for. To keep it short and simple, uninstalling the game and reinstalling it should help if all else hasn’t so far.