Updated to Windows 10 broke your game? Use Compatibility mode.

[Helusay]

Hello all,

We are starting to see posts of people having trouble with Windows 10 updates causing the game to stop working. Here is how to run the game in "Compatibility mode"

1 ) Go to your Steam Stonehearth Folder (C:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Stonehearth)

2 ) Right click on Stonehearth and select "Properties" from the drop down menu.

3 ) Click on the "Compatibility" tab

4 ) Click the box for "Run this game in compatibility mode for:

5 ) Choose "Windows 8" from the drop down.

If the game does not work in Windows 8 mode, repeat steps 1 - 3 and select "Windows 7" from the drop down.

[YetiChow]

DouglasWP님이 먼저 게시:

The game simply does not open, the only way I found to open it was by downloading an application to "permanently" uninstall it from the computer, I really like the game but I have to keep getting its "saved worlds" folder so I don't lose my world, and every time I install again I have to put the "saved worlds" folder in the "stonehearth" folder, it only opens once after installation.

That sounds like a read/write permissions issue -- something Win10 is notorious for. Because the folder structure is different in Win10, some games made for previous Windows editions (Stonehearth development started when Win 8 was the flagship and 10 wasn't available yet) will have issues because they're trying to write to or read from folder locations that are now "protected" against such actions.

I don't know exactly what you'd have to do to fix it because I don't know your system setup, but you should probably make a separate post in the forums asking for help -- that way, someone who knows more about file permissions in Win 10 can hopefully help you figure out a permanent fix.

[Martin]

So when are we going get back to a point where all you need to do is install the game, click the icon and play? without having to remap the computer to play this game each time you want play it?

[Mustadio23]

If the problem is that the music plays, but have no image, just "refresh" it, pressing F5.
It worked for me when nothing else did.

[YetiChow]

Martin님이 먼저 게시:

So when are we going get back to a point where all you need to do is install the game, click the icon and play? without having to remap the computer to play this game each time you want play it?

blame the config changes within Windows between different updates -- the game was made to follow different rules and assumptions to what Windows now has in place re: read-write permissions; and since there's no dev team anymore to update in line with those changes, the default paths that Steam installs the game into no longer play nicely with it.

It probably wouldn't be all that hard to just change the install locations (and tell Steam where to look for the updated locations) to play nicely with Windows' read-write permissions if this is an issue.

[Jiggs, CEO of Elevators]

if anyone still reads this i have had a different problem, ive seen most people having the game open then close immediately but for me that is not the case, the game opens and its just a black screen forever

[YetiChow]

Jigglypuff님이 먼저 게시:

if anyone still reads this i have had a different problem, ive seen most people having the game open then close immediately but for me that is not the case, the game opens and its just a black screen forever

Do you hear the music playing? If so, hit F5 once the music starts and it will refresh the screen, allowing it to draw normally. That issue comes from the game failing to load the graphics because it's taking too long to load the rest of the game, and while it's a bit annoying it's harmless -- you just hit F5 once the music starts and everything works normally after that.

If you don't hear music, it's a different issue which I know has been mentioned before, but I'm not sure if a solution for that one was found.

[Mustadio23]

Jigglypuff님이 먼저 게시:

if anyone still reads this i have had a different problem, ive seen most people having the game open then close immediately but for me that is not the case, the game opens and its just a black screen forever

Just press F5

[TheTrueSarcasticOne]

YetiChow님이 먼저 게시:

Jigglypuff님이 먼저 게시:

if anyone still reads this i have had a different problem, ive seen most people having the game open then close immediately but for me that is not the case, the game opens and its just a black screen forever

Do you hear the music playing? If so, hit F5 once the music starts and it will refresh the screen, allowing it to draw normally. That issue comes from the game failing to load the graphics because it's taking too long to load the rest of the game, and while it's a bit annoying it's harmless -- you just hit F5 once the music starts and everything works normally after that.

If you don't hear music, it's a different issue which I know has been mentioned before, but I'm not sure if a solution for that one was found.

thank you so much

[PeanutGoth]

The compatibility tab is not showing up for me.

[Stat3#Equilibrium]

i fixed my issue by deleting the x64 folder from steamapps\common\Stonehearth,
GL

[maciej.plachta]

While reinstalling this game again after a few years off, I ran into a problem like others with running the x64 version.
I couldn't find a direct answer as to what to do to fix this problem and still use the x64 version.

Relatively quickly I found a solution by analyzing the event log in the operating system. The problem is with the OpenSSL libraries.
Stonehearth is using these libraries in version 1.0.2h. Just update the libraries in the "/x64" subdirectory and everything works fine again. I verified it on Windows 11 with OpenSSL updated to version 1.0.2i.
Here is a quick step by step guide what to do.

1) Find and download OpenSSL version 1.0.2i (google the file named "openssl-1.0.2i-x64_86-win64.zip")
2) Rename or delete "libeay32.dll" and "ssleay32.dll" from the "/x64" subfolder of the game (eg. C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Stonehearth/x64)
3) Extract the libraries "libeay32.dll" and "ssleay32.dll" from the archive downloaded in step 1) and copy them to the "/x64" subfolder of the game
4) Done

[Dru]

Buenas, alguien sabe como solucionar el inicio del juego? no puedo ingresar

[Christian1944]

This game is no longer wanting to run the moment i click Play Game. Steam shows it load on the steam menu then it stops and never launches the game. I looked all over for for help to figure out why its not wanting to run and nothing help and i have given up all my free time to play since it no longer wants to run.

[Stat3#Equilibrium]

Christian1944님이 먼저 게시:

This game is no longer wanting to run the moment i click Play Game. Steam shows it load on the steam menu then it stops and never launches the game. I looked all over for for help to figure out why its not wanting to run and nothing help and i have given up all my free time to play since it no longer wants to run.

try deleting x64 folder from steamapps\common\Stonehearth, and run it again

[Mensantos]

in an other Game i found this to start the Game in Win10/11 with the same Problem:

Right click on the game in your steam library and select Properties

Under the General section of properties, find the Launch Options

In the textbox, put in the following: cmd /c "set OPENSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000 && %command%"

now i can play with Win11, maybe it helps to solve the Problem