Common Problems (and possible work arounds)

[Stratus]

Problem: My game won't launch! In the logs I see this (or something similar)

Player is already running

(Filename: Line: 461)

Answer: Upon investigating this with strace you may notice lines similar to

lstat("/opt/google/chrome-beta", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

If you have Google Chrome open and you are seeing these symptoms, close Chrome and relaunch the game



Problem: My Game won't launch! It launched the first time but subsequent launches crash to the desktop

Answer: remove "~/.config/unity3d/SomaSim/Project Highrise/prefs" directory and relaunch the game. It is currently unknown why the prefs directory causes the game to crash. If this works for you, you can implement a simple script to do this for you at launch. Beaware though, this script will reset whatever preferences you have set and may be over written if steam updates the game

Step 1: Move the binary file located wherever you installed Steam... for example ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Project\ Highrise

cd ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Project\ Highrise
mv Game.x86_64 Game.x86_64_binary

Next make the script which will first remove the prefs directory and then launch the game, call this file Game.x86_64 (or Game.x86 if you are on 32bit distro)

#!/bin/bash
# This will remove the preferences from Project Highrise... make sure this is the proper directory!
# WARNING, be cautious with the file path, double check this for your install
rm -rf ~/.config/unity3d/SomaSim/Project\ Highrise/prefs

# Launch the game, this path is relative to your steamapps/common folder, you may need to change this directory!
~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Project\ Highrise/Game.x86_64_binary -force-opengl

Finally, make sure your script is executable:

chmod +x ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Project\ Highrise/Game*

Now you should be able to launch the game repeatably from Steam without issue until a better fix can be found

ADDENDUM: instead of deleting the prefs dir each time you can try pointing to the 32bit file inside the script

~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Project\ Highrise/Game.x86 -force-opengl

Initial tests show that the 32bit build does not have a problem with the prefs dir




Problem: My Game won't launch! It starts up and then immediately crashes to the desktop (and you have INTEGRATED graphics)

Answer: this seems to be caused by Unity not detecting the correct version of OpenGL. Starting the game with

-force-opengl

or

-force-gles

Resolves this issue. Right click on Project Highrise -> Properties -> General -> Set Launch Options -> add -force-opengl

Problem: Black screen on launch (and none of the above solutions work)
(Thanks to Malah!)

A workarround for the black screen bug is to start the game with the LC_ALL=C option, it's a common bug on unity3d.

Right click on Project Highrise on your game list, click on Properties, click on SET LAUNCH OPTIONS, then add this:
LC_ALL=C ./Game.x86 %command%

[SomaSim]

Please be aware that removing your prefs directory will also blow away any medals you've earned in scenarios, remove any memory that you've completed tutorials, and also reset all of your options to defaults.

This is definitely just a temporary workaround and not the desirable way to play the game.

[StraToN]

For blackscreen problems : topic for workaround
http://steamcommunity.com/app/423580/discussions/1/133262487495110142/

[ydlackrik]

Got PH game today. On black main menu, and in game, there are No Buttons, or the buttons are invisible?
If I can read the white text against everything behind it, and discover where to click, then maybe I'd get by ... but it will not easy or enjoyable!

Tried 'integrity' and 'steam overlay' checks.
Uninstalled and reinstalled game.

What's next?

[axios2006]

Originally posted by ydlackrik:

Got PH game today. On black main menu, and in game, there are No Buttons, or the buttons are invisible?
If I can read the white text against everything behind it, and discover where to click, then maybe I'd get by ... but it will not easy or enjoyable!

Tried 'integrity' and 'steam overlay' checks.
Uninstalled and reinstalled game.

What's next?

Hi, please post your pc specs and log file using pastebin.com

[[bk]schorote]

FIX for the Worker does nothing and gets angry bug:

like other games like KSP, this game has problems loading float values, on system with , as decimal point. To fix it set your laumch options to:

LC_ALL=C ./Game.x86 %command%