I have been waiting with baited breath for the new material for the game. Having not played for a while, I decided that I'd get the motor running by playing again for the first time in a while. Except that the game has other ideas. Every time I try to click 'start game' it immediately crashes, with a 'this program has stopped running' message and no opportunity for extra information or error messages. I haven't changed anything to my computer since the last time I played. I realize that this is rather the opposite of providing useful information, but I'm wondering if there isn't someone out there who has any idea what could be causing this.
Have you modded it at all? which version are you using? I would suggest checking file integrity with Steam, or if it comes to worst reinstalling. Or you could wait for the update I guess, see if it fixes things.
I haven't modded it, and I THINK it's one point six, but I'm not able to find confirmation of that anywhere. And how do I reinstall? I've looked all over Steam but I'm not finding it.
What you want to do is to right click Dungeons of Dredmor in the library, then properties. Start with "verify integrity of game cache". If that doesn't solve it click delete local game content and re-download it.
Wow, well I'm out of ideas then, sorry Other than waiting a couple days for the update, I'm not sure what to suggest. BUT I believe the newest version will have the crash log dumper again. Whether or not it would catch the crash, I don't know.
I could send you the url to my Humble Indie Bundle Dungeons of Dredmor, which I believe is 1.7. Steam is 1.6 at the moment. As you already own this game, there shouldn't be much legal problem here, for the sake of seeing does that version work. Right?
Oooooooor... not. Sigh. Thought it was working. Now it just waits until I've finished making my character to crash. Can I get that URL, Profanity?
Soo... nothing? Like I said, the new version just found a different place to crash on me, which tells me that it's not my computer doing it, and I'm starting to get a bit peeved here. I may only have shelled out five bucks for this game, but I DID shell out money for it and I'd like to play it again. Minor update: it turns out that I can play the TUTORIAL just fine.
So far you're the only person who's reported this particular crash, so there is definitely something funny going on on your end. Doesn't mean that we won't figure it out, however. (Although right now, Steam is just eating everything left right and center, and the game won't even start for everybody, so... ugh.) What's your system configuration? Is there anything out of the ordinary on your machine? What OS?
Inspiron laptop straight from the factory. windows Seven. I was able to play just fine the last time I was playing, a few months back, so I know that it HAS worked on my computer before. Also, is it possible to play it without running it through Steam? I'm only passingly familiar with it and if there were a way for me to play without having to be hooked up to my wireless that'd be fab. I realize that you guys aren't Steam but if anybody knows how to do this I'd love to hear it.
Just run the EXE directly: The game stores it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steamapps\Common\dungeons of dredmor -- or something like that. Windows 7 should work. Assuming that you have validated your cache, and that you have both uninstalled and reinstalled the game, let me try to find a similar machine from somebody and see if I can check it out. For what it's worth, 99% of the time when this happens it's because Steam has corrupted something in the download and has neglected to validate itself correctly.
And mystery solved. About a month ago I was the victim of some truly obnoxious malware which, among other things, took all my folders and marked them as hidden and read-only. I THOUGHT I'd managed to undo all of that after ridding myself of said plague, five deaths to the one who wrote it, but it turns out there was a folder I'd missed and that was the folder where the program was trying to get data to run. Thanks for the help, everyone, and I'm sorry to have wasted everyone's time like this.
