Game do not start

[nobbo]

Hi, my issue is strange : since about 10 days, I can't launch the game.
There is no error message, but the game don't start.
I have executed the Steam analysis, there are 122 files to download, but even after their download they are still identified as KO.
So I tried to uninstal the game, delete all files from repository and reinstal the game : still same error.
Does anybody know what I have to do to fix it ?

[ebenezer1690]

引用自 nobbo：

Hi, my issue is strange : since about 10 days, I can't launch the game.
There is no error message, but the game don't start.
I have executed the Steam analysis, there are 122 files to download, but even after their download they are still identified as KO.
So I tried to uninstal the game, delete all files from repository and reinstal the game : still same error.
Does anybody know what I have to do to fix it ?

im having the same problem

[dAAAMN313]

Are you sure you are completely wiping the install directory manually? If you have modded the game in anyway the mod files will remain there after uninstalling through steam.

[nobbo]

Yes, I'm sure, I have just copy the save folder before uninstall from Steam and deleting manually the folder.
Other maybe important informations :
- I succed to connect one time, Friday (before uninstal and delete files).
- I can see the status launched in Steam, but there is no game screen open and the status in Steam disapear after about 5 seconds.

[dAAAMN313]

Can you try opening the game from the exe manually, the first startup may take longer than normal so give it a few seconds, also try disabling your AV before launching the game.

[nobbo]

I shut down Windows Defender and Adguard, and I launched BeingADIK.exe and BeingADIK-32.exe, but none of them succed to execute. I see no error into log.txt file.
Last rows into the log file (same content for each exe) are :
"Initializing gl2 renderer:
primary display bounds: (0, 0, 1920, 1080)
swap interval: 1 frames
Fullscreen mode. "

[Dr PinkCake]

Hi!
Can you try the following steps, even if you already did a few of them.

1. Right-click the game in your library and choose Manage > Browse local files.
2. Enter the "game" folder and copy the "saves" folder and put it somewhere else as a backup, i.e. Desktop.
3. Go back one level to "steamapps/common/Being a ♥♥♥". Select everything and delete.
4. In Steam, right click the game and uncheck the Steam cloud. We don't want any saves to be detected this time.
5. Open a file browser and type %appdata% into the search bar. In this Roaming folder you will see a RenPy folder. Enter it and move the "BeingADIK" folder somewhere else, i.e. Desktop.
6. Your game is now completely wiped, with saves and everything. Install the game again.
7. If you have a 64-bit OS, try launching the game from Steam. If you have a 32-bit OS, use the BeingADIK-32.exe in the install directory. Wait for up to one minute after launching.

If the game doesn't launch by now there's some local error on your end.
Open task manager and see if the game is running as a task.
If you get any error code, please post it here.

[Metall90]

i can launch the game but crash after few seconds... also if i don't click anything lmao. never played, just bough but i can't play, ofc

[Dr PinkCake]

引用自 Metall90：

i can launch the game but crash after few seconds... also if i don't click anything lmao. never played, just bough but i can't play, ofc

Post the crash log and your PC specs, please. The more information you provide, the easier it is to assist. Just saying it crashes doesn't narrow it down for me.

[Metall90]

don't have any crash log, either no errors. i have an i5 8500 gtx 1050ti and 16 gb ram. and i also discover that only your games, (i tryed 3 of them yday) crash like this. just "fetish locator" allow me to play for a while. really weird.

[Dr PinkCake]

引用自 Metall90：

don't have any crash log, either no errors. i have an i5 8500 gtx 1050ti and 16 gb ram. and i also discover that only your games, (i tryed 3 of them yday) crash like this. just "fetish locator" allow me to play for a while. really weird.

Windows 10?
32-bit or 64-bit system?
Open your installation folder, there's a log.txt file there.
Any modifications to the game, i.e. extra files in the installation directory etc?
Where does it crash, during gameplay or not starting?

[nobbo]

引用自 Dr PinkCake：

Hi!
Can you try the following steps, even if you already did a few of them.

1. Right-click the game in your library and choose Manage > Browse local files.
2. Enter the "game" folder and copy the "saves" folder and put it somewhere else as a backup, i.e. Desktop.
3. Go back one level to "steamapps/common/Being a ♥♥♥". Select everything and delete.
4. In Steam, right click the game and uncheck the Steam cloud. We don't want any saves to be detected this time.
5. Open a file browser and type %appdata% into the search bar. In this Roaming folder you will see a RenPy folder. Enter it and move the "BeingADIK" folder somewhere else, i.e. Desktop.
6. Your game is now completely wiped, with saves and everything. Install the game again.
7. If you have a 64-bit OS, try launching the game from Steam. If you have a 32-bit OS, use the BeingADIK-32.exe in the install directory. Wait for up to one minute after launching.

If the game doesn't launch by now there's some local error on your end.
Open task manager and see if the game is running as a task.
If you get any error code, please post it here.

Thanks a lot for this detailed description : I succeded to launch the game again, and after copying back both folders (Roaming and save), I found my saves.
But I stole all unlocked Gallery items. Is there a possibility to find them again ?

[dAAAMN313]

引用自 nobbo：

引用自 Dr PinkCake：

Hi!
Can you try the following steps, even if you already did a few of them.

1. Right-click the game in your library and choose Manage > Browse local files.
2. Enter the "game" folder and copy the "saves" folder and put it somewhere else as a backup, i.e. Desktop.
3. Go back one level to "steamapps/common/Being a ♥♥♥". Select everything and delete.
4. In Steam, right click the game and uncheck the Steam cloud. We don't want any saves to be detected this time.
5. Open a file browser and type %appdata% into the search bar. In this Roaming folder you will see a RenPy folder. Enter it and move the "BeingADIK" folder somewhere else, i.e. Desktop.
6. Your game is now completely wiped, with saves and everything. Install the game again.
7. If you have a 64-bit OS, try launching the game from Steam. If you have a 32-bit OS, use the BeingADIK-32.exe in the install directory. Wait for up to one minute after launching.

If the game doesn't launch by now there's some local error on your end.
Open task manager and see if the game is running as a task.
If you get any error code, please post it here.

Thanks a lot for this detailed description : I succeded to launch the game again, and after copying back both folders (Roaming and save), I found my saves.
But I stole all unlocked Gallery items. Is there a possibility to find them again ?

Gallery progress is stored in the file called persistent and it's in your save folders, make sure you copied it over from both folders.

[kooscar]

I have the exact same problem on Win11 64bit with these from the log.txt

Wed Jan 5 23:16:21 2022
Windows-10-10.0.22523
Ren'Py 7.4.10.2178

Bootstrap to the start of init.init took 0.05s
Early init took 0.00s
Loader init took 0.04s
Loading error handling took 0.10s
Loading script took 1.03s
Loading save slot metadata. took 0.00s
Loading persistent took 0.00s
Imported steam.
Failed to initialize steam.
Imported steam.
Failed to initialize steam.
Set script version to: (7, 4, 10)
- Init at renpy/common/00images.rpy:52 took 0.26324 s.
Running init code took 0.49s
Loading analysis data took 0.43s
Analyze and compile ATL took 0.07s
Index archives took 0.00s
Dump and make backups. took 0.00s
Cleaning cache took 0.00s
Making clean stores took 0.00s
Initial gc. took 0.24s
DPI scale factor: 1.000000
nvdrs: Loaded, about to disable thread optimizations.
nvdrs: Disabled thread optimizations.
Creating interface object took 0.15s
Cleaning stores took 0.00s
Init translation took 0.26s
Build styles took 0.00s
Load screen analysis took 0.25s
Analyze screens took 0.01s
Save screen analysis took 0.00s
Prepare screens took 0.49s
Save pyanalysis. took 0.00s
Save bytecode. took 0.00s
Running _start took 0.00s
Performance test:
Interface start took 0.35s

Initializing gl2 renderer:
primary display bounds: (0, 0, 3840, 1600)
swap interval: 1 frames
Fullscreen mode.
Vendor: 'NVIDIA Corporation'
Renderer: 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2'
Version: '4.6.0 NVIDIA 497.29'
Display Info: None
Screen sizes: virtual=(1920, 1080) physical=(3840, 1600) drawable=(3840, 1600)
Could not open 'cache/shaders.txt':
Maximum texture size: 4096x4096

I followed all your steps and deleted everything in the game folder and in appdata, still no luck, it starts for a few seconds then crashes.

Please help

[Dr PinkCake]

引用自 kooscar：

I have the exact same problem on Win11 64bit with these from the log.txt

Wed Jan 5 23:16:21 2022
Windows-10-10.0.22523
Ren'Py 7.4.10.2178

Bootstrap to the start of init.init took 0.05s
Early init took 0.00s
Loader init took 0.04s
Loading error handling took 0.10s
Loading script took 1.03s
Loading save slot metadata. took 0.00s
Loading persistent took 0.00s
Imported steam.
Failed to initialize steam.
Imported steam.
Failed to initialize steam.
Set script version to: (7, 4, 10)
- Init at renpy/common/00images.rpy:52 took 0.26324 s.
Running init code took 0.49s
Loading analysis data took 0.43s
Analyze and compile ATL took 0.07s
Index archives took 0.00s
Dump and make backups. took 0.00s
Cleaning cache took 0.00s
Making clean stores took 0.00s
Initial gc. took 0.24s
DPI scale factor: 1.000000
nvdrs: Loaded, about to disable thread optimizations.
nvdrs: Disabled thread optimizations.
Creating interface object took 0.15s
Cleaning stores took 0.00s
Init translation took 0.26s
Build styles took 0.00s
Load screen analysis took 0.25s
Analyze screens took 0.01s
Save screen analysis took 0.00s
Prepare screens took 0.49s
Save pyanalysis. took 0.00s
Save bytecode. took 0.00s
Running _start took 0.00s
Performance test:
Interface start took 0.35s

Initializing gl2 renderer:
primary display bounds: (0, 0, 3840, 1600)
swap interval: 1 frames
Fullscreen mode.
Vendor: 'NVIDIA Corporation'
Renderer: 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2'
Version: '4.6.0 NVIDIA 497.29'
Display Info: None
Screen sizes: virtual=(1920, 1080) physical=(3840, 1600) drawable=(3840, 1600)
Could not open 'cache/shaders.txt':
Maximum texture size: 4096x4096

I followed all your steps and deleted everything in the game folder and in appdata, still no luck, it starts for a few seconds then crashes.

Please help

Log looks fine to me.

Can you please try to wipe everything again, follow these steps without skipping any:

1. Right-click the game in your library and choose Manage > Browse local files.
2. Enter the "game" folder and copy the "saves" folder and put it somewhere else as a backup, i.e. Desktop.
3. Go back one level to "steamapps/common/Being a ♥♥♥". Select everything and delete.
4. In Steam, right click the game and uncheck the Steam cloud. We don't want any saves to be detected this time.
5. Open a file browser and type %appdata% into the search bar. In this Roaming folder you will see a RenPy folder. Enter it and move the "BeingADIK" folder somewhere else, i.e. Desktop.
6. Your game is now completely wiped, with saves and everything. Install the game again.
7. Launch the game from Steam. Wait for up to one minute after launching.

If the game doesn't launch by now there's some local error on your end.
Open task manager and see if the game is running as a task.
If you get any error code, please post it here.

Additional things to try if it doesn't work.
1. Close the game, navigate to the install directory and enter the "game" folder.
2. Delete the following: "ppython" folder, discord.py
3. See if the game can launch now.

If it still doesn't start, try this:
1. Navigate to the install directory, and make sure you can see BeingADIK.exe.
2. Shift+Right-click and open Powershell command window
3. Type ./BeingADIK.exe and press enter
If you get any error code in the console window, post it here.

[kooscar]

Thank you so much for your timely response, I tried every step, twice, but still no luck. It's probably my machine, because not just yours, several other newer renpy games also stopped working, but the older ones like City of Broken Dreams works fine.

Here are some noticeable things:
I couldn't delete everything in the game folder until I restarted the computer, specifically, game and lib folders, and the .exe

I couldn't find ppython, but I did find and deleted discord.py, still no luck

I did the terminal command, but no error output, it'll play the intro music and the intro splash screen for a few seconds, then the .exe disappears from the task manager

Interestingly, in task manager, AacKingstonDramHal process, steam, the game itself, Microsoft Defender's power usage went up when lunching renpy games