Post by cryptidovrlord! in CHROMATOSE comments

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Hello, this game looks phenomenal but it wont get past a certain point. At first i downloaded the itch.io version but it wouldn't get past the Gloscow National Hospital loading screen without something about missing textures coming up and then it exiting itself out.

Since that didn't work i tried the steam version and it got farther but once the first battle was about to start more popups showed up, now one with saying missing shaders and another missing textures one.

I really want to play this game, please help

Akabaka5 years ago

Hello!

Thanks for the error report. Can you copy paste the error message for me? If I can get the exact text it'll help me figure out what the problem is. ^^

cryptidovrlord!5 years ago

After playing it through again this is the only popup i got:

Win32 function failed: HRESULT: 0x8007000e

Call: GR_D3D_Device-> CreateTexture2D at line 423 in file \TexturesM.cpp

Akabaka5 years ago

Alright, thanks for the info, I know exactly what the problem is thanks to your in-depth report --

Your game is crashing wherever it hits a prefetch script -- whenever the game adds animations/textures to your computer's memory, and it's doing this because I suspect your computer does not have enough memory to run these prefetch scripts. So there's a few options available:

Try playing the game on a different computer (if possible)
I've made you a special build of the game that doesn't use any prefetch scripts, so the game will load assets as it arrives at them. This will cause the game to run slower whenever an animation appears for the first time per session, but it shouldn't outright crash anymore: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GxONn7KBXi-1xqS1-9PNddSQ2mJyKPna
If all else fails, there is a fantastic stream of the whole demo so you don't have to miss out while I work on making the demo more accessible: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/396103765

Cheers ^^

cryptidovrlord!5 years ago (1 edit)

By slow do you mean each asset will take a while to load into the asset? And you said but this is a new computer with barely any memory taken up so I don't know why that would be the cause. But regardless thank you for making a version just for me !

Sorry, for bothering you.

Akabaka5 years ago

It's no bother!
And oh you have a new computer? How strange. No idea why the game is having problem with RAM then, but the thing I know for sure is that your computer can't handle prefetch scripts (The difference between the Steam and itch versions is when the prefect scripts are first used, at the hospital loading screen for itch, at the first battle for steam, exactly where you said your game crashed) so I removed prefetch scripts from your version. When I mean slow, I mean that when a big animation appears for the first time, your game might stutter a little bit, but then it'll go back to normal (this will usually only happen the first time you see things like "Space to enter door" or for battle animations. Beyond that you shouldn't see any difference)