Byte Soft Lock - Killer App Mod Issues

[willplum01]

Installed the killer app mod yesterday and had to restart the game. Now when I get to the end of the tutorial, Byte won't move over to the door so I'm stuck. Also, since installing the mod, my PC asks if I'm ok with this app making changes to my PC when I try to open steam. Does anyone have any advice on fixing these?

[LDSO]

When you say Byte won't move over to the door and you're stuck, can you go into more detail about what's happening? I know you said you got to the end of the tutorial, but are you going through it, skipping it, or using the Gold cheat, for example? Knowing exactly what's happening up until the point you get stuck will help. (Though it appears you may have gotten past this by now?)

Also when you say "my PC asks if I'm ok with this app making changes to my PC" it looks like you're referring to the Steam client, is that correct?

If you mean Steam, the reason for this is because if Steam is not set to run that way: the Steam overlay won't appear in TRON 2.0, Steam won't track your play time, and you won't get collectable card drops. If these aren't important to you, or when you're finished playing TRON 2.0, you can set Steam not to run in compatibility mode and that prompt will no longer appear: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/443B-C1B8-0998-C02A

The mod does notify you about running Steam in compatibility mode at the end of installation. But I'm working on an update for the future, to try and avoid setting Steam to run that way, while still allowing the overlay, game time tracking, and card drops to work.

[willplum01]

Hi! Sorry for the vagueness. I'm ashamed, I know how to do a bug report I promise!

In regards to the Steam issue, the message pops up when I try to open the steam launcher from my desktop. But, I went into the app's properties and toggled "run as admin" off and that seems to have fixed it. I guess that got turned on when installing the mod? Either way it didn't seem to change anything, it just irked me.


In regards to the mod itself, I initially tried skipping both tutorials (no Gold cheat), killed the first 2 infected enemies, and the byte never moved. I couldn't get it to open the exit door, so I couldn't progress out of the tutorial room.

So, I aborted and started a new game, skipped both tutorials, killed the first 2 enemies and the byte actually opened the exit. I killed the next enemy, went down the elevator, jumped off of it to the next floor and the game crashed to desktop.

Then I restarted and tried using the Gold cheat and skipped both tutorials. When I progressed and killed the first 2 infected enemies, the byte never moved and thus never opened the exit.

Finally, I restarted and chose to skip the basic control tutorial and the combat tutorial and killed the first 2 enemies and the byte went and opened the door, I progressed down the elevator and tried transferring the first email from the bin archive on the left path and the game froze/crashed. The screen just froze on the email and I couldn't close the game or input anything. I had to restart my PC to close it.

I haven't gone back to the game yet, but I expect it to behave erratically again. Not sure if the crash is due to the mod or the game (possibly due to being run on a new PC running Windows 11?)

[LDSO]

In my experience, TRON 2.0 with the mod has performed identically for me on Windows 11 as it did on 10. I haven't encountered any new issues.


In case you (or anyone reading) experiences a game crash on Windows 10/11 that doesn't take you back to the Desktop, one thing you can try to avoid a hard reset (if the keyboard and mouse still respond) is to press the Windows and G keys simultaneously.

This should make the Game Bar appear. A widget named Resources should be there by default. If it's not there, the Game Bar has a row of icons and one of them will look like a bar graph. Click on that to make Resources appear.

The Resources widget is essentially a simplified version of the Task Manager. If you scroll through the list of running processes, one of them will have an icon with the word "Lithtech" on it and it will be named "Client MFC Application". Click the X to the right of this process, and a window will appear asking if you really want to end this task. Click the "End Task" button to exit TRON 2.0 and you should return to the Desktop.


Regarding the problems you've been having, with the game crashing and even freezing up, I have a hunch as to what the problem could be. It's just a guess on my part, but the symptoms sound suspiciously familiar.

When you run TRON 2.0 from Steam and the game launcher appears, click the Options button. Place an X in the box beside "Disable Sound" and click OK. Then play the game.

Let me know if the game still glitches or crashes when the sound is disabled. If it stops crashing: after restoring sound, one thing you can try (and I can't promise it will help) is to disable the Windows XP SP2 compatibility setting on both TRON.exe and Lithtech.exe in the Tron 2.0 game folder.

[willplum01]

Tried disabling the sound and Byte still won't move. It also prevents me from getting to the point where the crash happened to check if it happens again.

[LDSO]

Hmm, if it's not sound related then the symptoms you're describing are very strange. I've never encountered this kind of behavior before, if it didn't involve the sound configuration or sound driver not working correctly with the game.

You said you have a new PC, do you know the specifications of the components? Specifically, what CPU you have? Is it a 12th Gen Intel "Alder Lake" CPU with the hybrid architecture of Performance "P" cores and Efficiency "E" cores? (e.g. i3/i5/i7/i9-12xxxK/U?)

I haven't heard from anyone yet trying TRON 2.0 on an Alder Lake CPU, and have been wondering how it would run on that hybrid architecture. Whether it would play without issue or not.

If you have an Alder Lake CPU you could try the workaround mentioned (Scroll Lock key), about getting older games to run properly, on the page I've linked below. It talks about games using DRM, but I can see old games without DRM also not running well without the workaround.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000088259/processors/intel-core-processors.html

If you don't have an Alder Lake CPU, then the only things I can think of right now are:

• If you haven't disabled Windows XP SP2 compatibility yet, give that a try.
  
• Check to see what other programs are running in the background via the Task Manager. While not likely, it's possible something might be interfering with the game.
  
• The game's files may have somehow become corrupt. Again, not very likely. But as a last resort you could try deleting the game and installing it again from scratch, to see if it makes any difference.

[willplum01]

I managed to progress! Currently got back to the Light Cycle section. I never saw that I had to turn off the Windows XP SP2 compatibility. My bad. Thanks though!