Game won't load

[BoulderMark]

Just purchased. When I click play, window opens. All I get is a white window and nothing. Game then says "not responding". Tried verifying files, says 145 files were deleted and would be reacquired, but get the same result. Tried restarting PC, re-install. Still the same. Any suggestions or this one straight to a request refund before I even get to try it?

[MaddSkillz]

get a refund. doesnt load for me, fix (run as admin, run beta version) didnt work. waited to long for refund - have to claim within 2 weeks

[Bef]

Try updating all your drivers.

This should run on a literal potato pc.

[Elijah's Wood]

Originally posted by BoulderMark:

Just purchased. When I click play, window opens. All I get is a white window and nothing. Game then says "not responding". Tried verifying files, says 145 files were deleted and would be reacquired, but get the same result. Tried restarting PC, re-install. Still the same. Any suggestions or this one straight to a request refund before I even get to try it?

o/s? runs fine on windows 11.

[Galdavant]

Was having the same issue. Found out it was my Thrustmaster TWCS throttle. So it maybe a controller you have connected causing the issue. I didn't even have to roll back to the beta version.

[[CoFR] Codo]

My system has updated drivers on Win11. Game won't run in either regular branch or beta branch. Too bad, the overwhelmingly positive reviews are what brought me here.

[GetOutOfMyLab]

I know it is frustrating to get a game and not be able to run it. You might be able to if you right-click the game in your library, hover over Manage, and then click "Browse local files", then run the executable, or .sh file.. or whatever the hell Mac users do.

Desert Stalker uses the Ren'Py game engine like many of these adult visual novels do on Steam, so typically it's pretty well supported. However, lots of Nvidia drivers have caused issues for some lately.

Also, the person who mentioned those who use the Thrustmaster TWCS throttle I've seen before, too.

[markyr88]

Its a renpy problem, non renpy games work fine

[PonyHub]

Folks I fixed mine by switching to angle2 rendering API. Issue might be with the default GL option. You can change it by add steam run command --safe-mode.