Won't launch?

[Shadew]

When I try to launch the game it says "preparing to launch" and then doesn't.....

[cprince]

new version just went up.

[Shadew]

Originally posted by cprince:

new version just went up.

And that makes it not launch because of what?

[cprince]

Because Steam isn't exactly reliable. You might have to zap Droid Assault and reinstall.

[Shadew]

Originally posted by cprince:

Because Steam isn't exactly reliable. You might have to zap Droid Assault and reinstall.

Already tried that, might it be because I'm on a mac?

[cprince]

Hmm the Mac version is even more unreliable than the Windows version; sometimes you actually have to reboot the whole Mac if it gets its knickers in a twist.

[Princess Fuzzy]

Try restarting steam. Worked for me!

[Shadew]

Meh, Rebooting didn't work, guess I'll just have to wait till I buy my windows computer to play this. :/

[cprince]

Oh there is one other small snafu with the Mac version - if you've got an ancient version of Java on it, it will just fail silently. It requires that you have 32-bit Java 6 installed (not 7!) and that 32-bit Java 6 is your system default JVM.

We're working on a better solution to that in the meantime, hopefully we'll have it working in the next few days.

[cprince]

... I don't know how to get 32-bit Java 6 btw, I'm not a Mac expert! I'm sure it's just something in System Update and Preferences that'll sort it.

[cprince]

... in fact I don't even know if it needs to be 32 bit or not, that's a guess...

[Shadew]

My guess is it does because mine's not 32-bit, which would definitely explain it.

[cprince]

Hmm, you might be able to tweak the Info.plist file in the Droid Assault.app and add the VM argument -d32 to it, which might force it to select a 32 bit VM.

[Shadew]

Originally posted by cprince:

Hmm, you might be able to tweak the Info.plist file in the Droid Assault.app and add the VM argument -d32 to it, which might force it to select a 32 bit VM.

I might be able to.... if I understood how that worked. finding info.plist is easy, but the second part, you lost me. XD

[Lamkin]

Originally posted by cprince:

Oh there is one other small snafu with the Mac version - if you've got an ancient version of Java on it, it will just fail silently. It requires that you have 32-bit Java 6 installed (not 7!) and that 32-bit Java 6 is your system default JVM.

Hmm... I have a Mac and have 32-bit Java (SE) 6 and it won't launch.
Actually have both 32-bit and 64-bit, with the "first compatible version to use" in Java Preferences being 64-bit.
Screenshot:
http://f.cl.ly/items/2e0U0A181L1C0j3m1T1m/Java.jpg
(Changing the order so that the first compatible version to use is 32-bit doesn't fix anything...not sure why it would anyway, but I tried it just in case.)

Edit: Deleting and reinstalling the game didn't fix the problem; neither did restarting Steam or rebooting the computer.
Especially frustrating because the game worked perfectly yesterday. :/

[Spudanky!]

I just wanna play this game! ...Sorry, that's not constructive to this thread. For Mac's running Leopard, 32bit Java SE 6 doesn't seem to be an option.