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Fixed by uninstalling the game and reinstalling it.

I've used https://wiki.openmw.org/index.php?title=Development_Environment_Setup#Visual_Studio_2013-2019_scripted_way to build it and put cout << "something" in some places and stuff to find which line is causing the problem. It seems to me that it is the line FixedPathType mFixedPath; in c...

it works on my other computer

if I can't get it to work on this computer I can probably get it to work on my other computer.

putting the Data Files folder on the C drive doesn't fix it

my user name is just english characters. I assume that english characters are necessarily ascii characters? I also have a C drive. Putting the openmw folder on the C drive doesn't fix it.

replacing that line with encoding=UTF8 or encoding=win1252 doesn't fix it

before I put that cfg file there, there was no My Games\OpenMW folder. If I delete the file it doesn't fix things.

This was someone else's cfg that I found somewhere because openmw-wizard didn't even create a cfg.

no-sound=0 fallback-archive=Morrowind.bsa fallback-archive=Tribunal.bsa fallback-archive=Bloodmoon.bsa fallback=LightAttenuation_UseConstant,0 fallback=LightAttenuation_ConstantValue,0.0 fallback=LightAttenuation_UseLinear,1 fallback=LightAttenuation_LinearMethod,1 fallback=LightAttenuation_LinearVa...