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It is odd you are having that error even though you only have the Steam version, and no mixed situation there, even not in the past.

What could cause the issue;
-your Steam is a new installation? Not a copy from an archive folder? Which version? (Steam menu > Help > About Steam)
-rightclick on the game > Properties > tab "Updates": 'Always keep this game up to date' is selected?

FireFork wrote:I'll try again. And no I have not played the entire game, but I checked some other cutscenes and they played without a single problem.

How did you play them?

The about steam window says:

Built: Jan 2 2012, at 16:42:05

Steam API: v012

Steam package versions: 1771/1771

And updates are enabled. When I checked the other cutscenes I just replayed the tutorial and watched the cutscene after, to make sure not all caused a crash, and it seems only the one at the Skull of shadows does that.

I forgot to mention this earlier which was really dumb of me, but I did have the multiplayer version before I bought the game. A friend gave me a steam key he got for free, and it was only the MP. So basically I only bought the SP, but both are steam versions.

Aha. Your situation is D. The whole issue never happens on a PC that has never seen the game before (so on first install).

Steam has evolved since 2008 so i suppose some internal changes could be complicating things.

First make sure Steam is not running. Then

1. COPY the binkw32.dll file from
   your STEAM directory\steamapps\*your account*\dark messiah might and magic single player\bin
2. paste it in
   your STEAM directory\steamapps\*your account*\dark messiah might and magic single player

so you have it in both places.
Does that work?

No, there's no change at all.

You had previously gotten for free a multiplayer... but you don't realise that if you own a key you have both single and multiplayer, with that key you could have downloaded both on Steam. You didn't need to buy a new one. But anyway. Try this:

• Uninstall both singleplayer and multiplayer from Steam library. (Later you will download them anew)
• Then navigate to your Steam directory and in Steamapps > YOU, delete the folders
  dark messiah might and magic single player
  dark messiah might and magic multiplayer
  (because Steam does not really remove them)
• In Steam directory, delete your ClientRegistry.blob
• You have set Steam (in Preferences) to not start up with Windows.
• Reboot the PC
• In Registry delete:
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Source\mm]
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam\Apps\2100]
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam\Apps\2130]
• Reboot the PC.
• Launch Steam.
• Start downloading Dark Messiah singleplayer again.
• Try the game.

It worked, I love you! I was almost at the point that I would just use the console to the next level, but lucky I didn't. Thanks so much, you have done so much for the community.

(on a side note, the key was mp only, I did not have access to sp. You can't buy a game twice.)

Great... i'm happy for that! I'll update the troubleshooting thread with this then.

I've never heard of a multiplayer only key for this game, really. Odd.

I got curious about the mp only key, and looked it up. Apparently they can be received for free through a polish website.

You can read up on it if you want, found a few forum threads with information.

http://thebotnet.com/freebies/36134-fre ... might-and/

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1018615

Apparently it was promotion in Portugal, seems odd since all other sources say it's a polish website. Maybe he meant Poland?

Steam forums: "wow the free dark messiah promotion is still running? that was years ago. should be technically legal, it was originally coming from a game magazine in portugal, nothing stolen or anything"

Also Steamgifts.com lists it as a exploited key:

Keys Considered Exploited:

Serious Sam: Double D
Dead Island
Bulletstorm
Homefront Shotgun DLC
AI War
Portal 2
DiRT 3
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Multiplayer
Eets (in certain amounts)

Don't really know what to make of this, but I hope this will help if someone else gets the same problem. Also, I backed up my saves and I had no problems, so I didn't suffer by the reinstall. Yet again, Thanks for what you have done for the community

Thank YOU, and Greetings to the Community!
Thank you very much FireFork for the valuable information about that key that was completely new to me.

I've published this post in order to be useful, not demanding help.
I've had the same problem as "FireFork" , I've bought the game on Steam and I never had installed the DVD version, whenever the game tried to play the video between the first and second chapter the game stops and an error message was shown :
"[Bink]Error Opening File. Not a bink File. Skipping video."

To solve it I've downloaded the bink viedeo player for bik files, and i tried to play the video files from the game folder.They were all ok except for the scene involving the error, I've deleted that file and I made steam test the game files, Steam re-downloaded the file and the error was solved.