If you are trying to play Stronghold 3 on a laptop with ability to switch between default Intel graphics card and your external graphics card, you will get this error.
To resolve this on some machines: Open Device Manager Expand Display Adapters Disable (Lower End) Intel Display Adapter To solve this problem for pcs with NVidia based cards: Right click in Windows, select NVIDIA Control Panel and Set Stronghold 3 to always use the ""High-Performance NVIDIA processor"". Otherwise, you can put the game into a Window which may allow the game to run. To do this edit the config.xml file located here: 32 Bit: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\stronghold3\bin\config.xml 64 Bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\stronghold3\bin\config.xml At the end of the resolution put ""windowed=1"" So for example yours may looks like this: <resolution width=1024 height=768 windowed=1/>
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