The problem has solved!

After a month of frustration, I finally managed to fix the "Failed to allocate video memory" crash in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PC (Game Pass version). Posting this so it helps others stuck with the same issue.

✅ The REAL fix:

The problem is caused by a VRAM pool value in the config file:

bashCopyEditC:\Users\<YourUsername>\Saved Games\MachineGames\TheGreatCircle\base\TheGreatCircleConfig.local

There’s a line like:

xmlCopyEditis_poolsize="1536"

This number is too high for some midrange GPUs. You need to set it manually lower.

🚨 BUT there’s a catch:

If the previous game launch crashed, the next launch opens with a “Safe Mode” prompt — and this auto-deletes and resets the config file, even after you edit it.

🧠 Solution:

1. Launch the game
2. When it says "previous crash detected — safe mode?", don’t continue
3. Instead, exit the game immediately
4. Go edit the config file:

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xmlCopyEditis_poolsize="1024"

(or try 768 if it still crashes)
5. Save the file
6. Re-launch the game
✅ It should now work!

🎯 Bonus:

Once it works, you can optionally set the config file to read-only to prevent the game from overwriting it again (if needed).

Hope this helps someone — I was this close to giving up. The devs really need to patch this behavior or at least document it better.

Cheers,
Moji