In looking about, I noticed that there was a bit of a lack now in a main Bug or Error reporting thread here in the Support forum, though there are quite a few independent threads about, So, I am adding myself to the group in hopes that a fix can be found for what I have come across.
Using Steam, I downloaded Stonehearth, updated to the latest patch, and was FINALLY able to play the game on my laptop, rather than having to use a more inconvenient desktop in another room.
Everything was working fine much to my excitement and suspense, through the main menu, through the clicking of the new world button, and through the majority of the loading of a new worldâŚ
when⌠all of a suddenâŚ
I was hit with the malignant error report! Gasping heard around the world, I know.
The error message read, at the top bar âStonehearth Assertion Failedâ while in the actual error message it reported, "status == GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE_EXT"
Clicking ok, the game crashed and left me to the brink of tears and a great gnashing of teeth in frustrated early-adulthood angst. I hope that a fix for this can be found, and I look forward to hearing them.
My specs are as follows:
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook
i3 Intel Core @ 2.10 GHz
6 Gigs of RAM
64 bit Windows 7 Home Edition
Mm⌠I think Iâve seen your bug somewhere before⌠Have you executed again the game? I remember on r22 the first time I run the game it crashed, but probably was because I forgot to set my screenâs resolution on the user_settings.json file. After I changed that, I was able to run the game normally.
@GeorgeCrecy Iâve deleted your post as Iâm unsure if showing your user_id can potentially result in anything negative! Iâm probably being over-cautious but Iâll get some official word on whether we should avoid displaying that.
The reason the settings havenât changed I think is because the game hasnât launched.
If you try to edit the stonehearth.JSON file rather than the user_settings.josn you might have better luck?
I thank you for considering that Geoffers, I did not think of the possibility it might be used for ill.
In any case, I certainly did have more luck in going after the stonehearth.json file.
I do wonder though what the optimum numbers are to put for shadow resolution (currently listed as 2048), and screen width and height (1920 and 1080 respectively). I am guessing I change the latter to my screen resolution, and change the shadows resolution to be the same as my screen width, if I change it at all?
EDIT: I made a backup of the file and made the necessary changes. Everything still worked fine up until the world was almost done loading, where it made the same GL_FRAMEBUFFER crash. I neglected to mention that after closing that error message, another pops up about Microsoft Runtime, where the game requested to be closed in an âunusualâ manner. Put quotes on that as that was the wording used: Unusual.
Alright, I made those changes, but I have still gotten the same error message. I will say this about my computer, it can be very stubborn when it doesnât want something to work.
As a more in depth mentioning of the other error window, here is the second one that pops up:
In the window bar: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Error Message: Runtime Error!
Program: C:/âŚ
This application has requested Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the applicationâs support team for more information.
This is a particularly stubborn bug that only seems to hit a certain kind of Intel GPU. Does your notebook have a discrete GPU? Most notebooks running switchable GPUs allow you to launch an application in âperformanceâ mode or âenergy-savingâ mode, so if thatâs the case with your setup, you might be able to try running Stonehearth with the âperformanceâ GPU (probably an AMD, maybe an Intel card.) To do this, usually, you would right click the Stonehearth desktop icon, and the pop-up menu will have some manner of âlaunch in performance modeâ, or something vaguely like that.
Unfortunately, I am not given the option of which to run the game on. My one idea would be to disable the Intel graphics card in Device Manager, though I am not positive that would go well, as there might be things which are dependent on it running. In any case, I am able to play other, even more graphic-inducing games without much of a problem.
i know i have two cards in my machine (non-SLI) as they are split between 4 monitors⌠i dont recall being able to manually control what works for a particular card, but my best guess would be, disabling the onboard graphics would simply for all applications to utilize your Radeon cardâŚ
again, can someone more enlightened in this arena shed some light? @not_owen_wilson?
Thereâll probably be a setting in your bios for âgraphics switchingâ, or some such. Turning off graphics switching will likely force the Radeon card to always be selected. Be careful when tinkering with your bios!
Otherwise, Iâll be starting work on getting Stonehearth to automatically select the discrete (fast) GPU in a laptop system, so thisâll likely be in in a week or two.
