window mode issue (Devs plz respond)

[Jura Lith b-day]

the window mode version will not appear on my screen, it is running but never appears, any one know how to fix this?

[Mantis]

Same. Full-screen or windowed does nothing. For a while it was still "running" in Steam and I had to restart Steam to correct that. Now it just closes immediately, both for windowed and full-screen. I've tried setting some config options for the EXE files, including admin mode and compatibility mode.

Nothing works. I'd like to fix it, and then maybe I'd write a guide addressing all problems. After all this is one of my favourite childhood games. It sucks to see it being a wasted purchase for many people.

[Jura Lith b-day]

guess no one is having this issue?

[Jura Lith b-day]

Originally posted by Mantis:

Same. Full-screen or windowed does nothing. For a while it was still "running" in Steam and I had to restart Steam to correct that. Now it just closes immediately, both for windowed and full-screen. I've tried setting some config options for the EXE files, including admin mode and compatibility mode.

Nothing works. I'd like to fix it, and then maybe I'd write a guide addressing all problems. After all this is one of my favourite childhood games. It sucks to see it being a wasted purchase for many people.

Really wish someone could tell us how to fix this issue. I cannot play the gane at all any orr because the screens/gane won't play/appear

[Struck]

Well unless the current devs have the source code none of these issues are going to get fixed.

[Jura Lith b-day]

Well hope they do or can get it. Would love to continue to play and enjoy the game

[Jura Lith b-day]

nervermind, i seemed to have fixed it myself after a few days of tampering/figuring it out, im not a computer wiz at all, but just had to go into the compability mode and run it in windows 98 xp. so if anyone is having an issue this may fix it for you.

I am a bit disapointed in how the devs did not reply to this thread even after a few days has passes since it was posted, but thankfully it was fixed. and I hope this can help someone in the future who is having an issue.

[Jacob]

Thanks for sharing your issue and fix, I'll add it to the known issues thread. Unfortunately some of these bugs are not possible to fix currently, but we are exploring a total engine rewrite for the future.

[Jura Lith b-day]

Originally posted by Jacob:

Thanks for sharing your issue and fix, I'll add it to the known issues thread. Unfortunately some of these bugs are not possible to fix currently, but we are exploring a total engine rewrite for the future.

I see thank you for the info amd letting us know what yall have planned in the future

[Mantis]

Originally posted by Jacob:

Thanks for sharing your issue and fix, I'll add it to the known issues thread. Unfortunately some of these bugs are not possible to fix currently, but we are exploring a total engine rewrite for the future.

How will you go about this? Will you be working with The Asenheim Project? Looking forward to any updates. In the meantime I'll try to get it running on my end because I'm not having the same amount of joy as the OP.

[Charlotte Cavatica]

I don't have this game on Steam (I purchased it directly from JAST), but I am having the same issue with both windowed and fullscreen mode---the game is clearly running in Task Manager, but it's as if it's a background process. There is no window or anything else on the taskbar indicating the game is running. I contacted the publisher for support and they have been unable to help me, unfortunately.

However, I found a way to get the game to run properly!

Anyone having trouble might want to try looking into installing a virtual machine such as Oracle VirtualBox. On a VM, you can host an older OS (like Windows XP, which works for me) and play older games like this one. Once the host OS and guest additions are installed, you can just drag and drop the game folder into the VM itself, and the game should run.

If anyone else finds a fix for this display problem, please let me know---I'd like to be able to run the game directly on Windows 10 if possible, but until then I'll be using this workaround.

[Mantis]

Originally posted by Charlotte Cavatica:

I don't have this game on Steam (I purchased it directly from JAST), but I am having the same issue with both windowed and fullscreen mode---the game is clearly running in Task Manager, but it's as if it's a background process. There is no window or anything else on the taskbar indicating the game is running. I contacted the publisher for support and they have been unable to help me, unfortunately.

However, I found a way to get the game to run properly!

Anyone having trouble might want to try looking into installing a virtual machine such as Oracle VirtualBox. On a VM, you can host an older OS (like Windows XP, which works for me) and play older games like this one. Once the host OS and guest additions are installed, you can just drag and drop the game folder into the VM itself, and the game should run.

If anyone else finds a fix for this display problem, please let me know---I'd like to be able to run the game directly on Windows 10 if possible, but until then I'll be using this workaround.

Yes, a VM would work. It's a good solution for people who are willing to put in the effort. Unfortunately, getting the image files for Windows 95/98/XP is legally grey at best. I think many owners of this game had already played it long ago and bought the game to play it on Steam. By taking it from Steam and into a VM it will no longer run as a Steam game. The same as getting it from an abandonware site, then.

Thanks for posting that anyway as I'm sure it'll help some people. Personally I don't like having to jump through those hoops and just play True Love at The Asenheim Project. I can look past the minor differences between the original and the browser engine re-write.

[Charlotte Cavatica]

Originally posted by Mantis:

Yes, a VM would work. It's a good solution for people who are willing to put in the effort. Unfortunately, getting the image files for Windows 95/98/XP is legally grey at best. I think many owners of this game had already played it long ago and bought the game to play it on Steam. By taking it from Steam and into a VM it will no longer run as a Steam game. The same as getting it from an abandonware site, then.

Yeah . . . I'm not proud of myself for resorting to a shady method to run it, but at least the game I paid for works using this method.

[Koro Sensei]

I've ran this game in 95/98/and XP can anyone help me out? I just wanna play this game in full screen.