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Cannot launch the game
« on: February 20, 2015, 11:51:11 am »
Hey people i Bought the game yesterday on steam but i cannot play it, it launches in a small black window, i can move the mouse inside the window and hear some sounds and clicks but nothing happens and i cant see anything. Also tried in admin nothing happens.

I appreciate any help guys

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2015, 02:12:22 pm »
Heya,

Can you check if you have "XNA redistributable 4.0 Refresh" installed?

Also make sure your graphics drivers are updated.

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2015, 06:32:19 pm »
I have nvidia drivers as one version before , i am updating now. Also i installed XNA redistributable 4.0 Refresh before and there was no luck then.

Nope i uninstalled the game and reinstalled with XNA and no luck. Any ideas :)
« Last Edit: February 20, 2015, 06:39:47 pm by ChaosDancer »

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2015, 08:04:26 am »
I have nvidia drivers as one version before , i am updating now. Also i installed XNA redistributable 4.0 Refresh before and there was no luck then.

Nope i uninstalled the game and reinstalled with XNA and no luck. Any ideas :)

Can you post your systems specs? Also, post a screen shot of control panel that shows XNA. It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that there are multiple packages and I want to make sure you have the right one installed. :)

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2015, 08:47:09 am »
Sure mate, My specs are:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz, (RAM) 12.0 GB, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

and i attached the picture of my control panel, http://i62.tinypic.com/r1j43l.jpg

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2015, 08:08:20 am »
Sure mate, My specs are:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz, (RAM) 12.0 GB, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

and i attached the picture of my control panel, http://i62.tinypic.com/r1j43l.jpg

Try uninstalling 3.1 version above it and see if that helps.

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2015, 09:38:34 am »
Nope didn't work, here is the screenshot of what the game looks like http://postimg.org/image/sfvnujv6x/

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2015, 07:31:17 am »
Hmm, I have no idea what it could be. What resolution is your monitor?

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2015, 09:59:07 pm »
Usual one 1920 * 1080, oh well i hope by release it will be fixed , it seems such a nice game

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2015, 12:52:30 am »
Usual one 1920 * 1080, oh well i hope by release it will be fixed , it seems such a nice game

We'll have to figure out what's wrong first in order to fix it. :)

Usually this kind of problems are caused by corrupt .NET or XNA installations.

When you get the time, can you download this app: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896647.aspx. If you run it before you start the game, it might capture the error.

Cheers.

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2015, 05:32:42 am »
Nope didn't work, here is the screenshot of what the game looks like http://postimg.org/image/sfvnujv6x/

My game opens similar to your screen shot but then it goes right to the title menu where I can start a game.

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2015, 10:03:51 pm »
ok downloaded the file here is the log, i have no idea what it means but i hope it helps you guys :)

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2015, 08:04:35 am »
ok downloaded the file here is the log, i have no idea what it means but i hope it helps you guys :)

Ok, it's definitively a corrupt XNA installation.

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Failed to load XnaNative.dll. Please verify that you have the XNA Framework installed.

This time try to uninstall all XNA redistributions you have and then install the XNA 4.0 Referesh redistributable again. Make sure you run the installaiton as an admin, just in case.

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2015, 08:30:00 am »
Finally fixed it woot :)

Ok i couldn't sleep and i was getting bored farming fates in FFXIV, so i checked the log, it seems the problem was that XnaNative.dll wasn't loading. I checked my folder to see if i had the file since search wasn't turning anything up and found it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\XNA\Framework\v4.0.

I searched google for a little while for solutions and they said to copy the file to the folder of the game and maybe it would work. Well apparently i couldn't copy it because windows 7 permissions couldn't let me. Tried changing permissions and that didn't work, tried with sharing, same. Googling wasn't much help because one of the solutions was changing the registry and that is a pain.

So i downloaded a program unlocker and tried moving the file and it worked, after two hours trying :)

Tried the game from steam and that didn't work, so i tried from the folder and that finally did the trick. Played a little and it seems very good, cant wait for gold release. Keep up the good work mate and thx for the help

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Re: Cannot launch the game
« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2015, 08:38:49 am »
Glad you got it working. :) Keep in mind, though, that that might not have resolved the problem of faulty XNA installation completely and it might manifest itself with another DLL in the future.