App starts, but can't use the menues or get it working correctly

[Spir^]

App starts, but can't use the menues or get it working correctly

Issue 1:
The program opened just fine at the first launch (After my other issue with it crashing got fixed)
The program seems to work fine as it turned my dekstop all black like Winamp AVS desktop overlay does. but nothing went on, so went to try the menu system and browse wallpapers... but nothing happening when clicking on the menu items at the right click the icon at the clock.

Issue 2:
I closed the program after Issue 1, and tried to open it again, but this time the desktop did not turn black, but the icon is there and the menu is not working again with the "Browse wallapaper" and "Settings" and "Create wallpaper"

Note: The "Browse Workshop works", it opens in steam (And cancled what i wrote here so had to write it all again LOL X_X )

[Biohazard]

Could you try restarting your PC now, after it failed starting up once?

Otherwise this post might help: http://steamcommunity.com/app/431960/discussions/2/350544272219318232/#c350544272219925634

Also sorry about the Steam thing, maybe I will rename it into 'Browse Workshop (Steam)' or something.

[Spir^]

I will do that and post the result soon!

Well i should have thought it did that, but maybe "Browse Steam Workshop" as many other games call it if it doesn't make the menu to big :)

[Spir^]

Did not work, same result :(
It acts like im missing a runtime it seems

Does this program need any Runtimes like Visual C++ or .Net framework version i might not have... that'd be a good start as .Net is "Optional" in windows update on Windows 7 :P

[Biohazard]

It needs the visual studio 2013 runtime for 32 bits (x86) and support for directx 10 (you don't need to install anything for that, but your graphics card needs to support it). The runtime should be installed by Steam though, otherwise it would immediately crash. Could you go back to this post steam://openurl/http://steamcommunity.com/app/431960/discussions/2/350544272219318232/#c350544272219925634 but maybe check all of the checkboxes there and restart? I will try to remove this step asap of course, I am looking into it at this time.

[Spir^]

Just checked these steps:

- The Animate Windows in System Performance is turned on
- I have Visual C++ 2013 x86 version 12.0.30501 (Also x64 of the same version), i got Visual C++ 2005,2008,2010,2013,2015 all installed
- I have Windows 7x64, so DirectX11 should be supported (Got an NVidia 970GTX card so DX11 should work, and DirectX12 supported if i had Windows 10)

Still not working, but i will try mess around a little with it as i run with most of this disabled for faster navigating around in windows.
i will give a little feedback if i find another setting that causes it to not work :P

[Spir^]

So far nothing seems to work on my PC.
However i installed it on my Laptop with Windows 10x64, and that seems to work so far. the "Welcome to Wallpaper Engine" pops up and i can edit the Low/Medium/High setting. And i can see the UI of the "Browse Wallpaper" just fine there :o

The "Welcome to Wallpaper Engine" popped up the very first time (When i had the "Animate windows" popup issue), and didn't popup ever since that time if that makes a difference in finding the issue :)

[Biohazard]

Thanks for all this info, definitely helps! Yeah the welcome dialog will not pop up again, that was intended :)

On your desktop PC with Win7, do you have a theme with Aero active? Could you try switching to the default Aero theme and run Wallpaper Engine then? I think right now it will require Aero to work on Win7.

[Spir^]

Funny thing, i tried for fun to Copy the working Laptop folder of this program to my gaming PC... WAM it works! ;)

So somewhere in the files it went wrong on my main PC. Could perhaps have something to do with me having that Animate Window popup issue at first... it cancled the "Welcome UI" :)

If you want, i got a copy of the "broken folder" stored if you want to investigate it so it doesn't happen for others :)

[Biohazard]

That sounds strange and yes, I'd love to have a copy of that folder ;)

[Spir^]

Du you have an email or something i could send a link to the file? (So i do not post a link publicly for everyone to download the entire program, with possible account info in) :)?

[Biohazard]

Yeah you can drop me an e-mail here: [e-mail] thanks!

[Spir^]

File is uploaded and ready to download, email with link sent :)

[Biohazard]

Cheers, I downloaded it and will check it out soon.