Title: Steam version only (my humble bundle install works fine) gets black screen and nothing else.
Summary: Starting the steam install of the game opens up a black window. After editing the stonehearth.json file to use fullscreen the game opens to a full black screen and nothing else happens. No music or UI of any type. There is a Stonehearth mouse cursor however, both on the windowed and fullscreen. While windowed the mouse cursor changes to a Stonehearth one when over the Stonehearth window. I installed the humble bundle first, then Steam version.
Steps to reproduce:
Install Humble Bundle install
Install Steam version
3)Start steam version
Expected Results: The game starts with music, a UI, and background.
Actual Results: Black screen
Notes: Stonehearth.log has several lines repeated:
2014-Jan-03 13:19:28.430369 | 2 | client | updating selection…
2014-Jan-03 13:19:28.430369 | 3 | client | no entities!
Versions and Mods: Latest version as of Jan 3, 2014
System Information:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Processor AMD Phenom™ II X6 1090T Processor, 3210 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 6 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 3503, 13/04/2011
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Video NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Locale Canada
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = “6.1.7601.17514”
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 16.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 11.5 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 10.2 GB
Page File Space 0 bytes
Yep, I fixed it!
Follow these steps and see if it works for you @2_Zons
Right click Stonehearth, go to properties > betas, switch the beta back to “None”. Wait for it to download, then switch back to the latest beta build (wait for that to download). Once that is all downloaded, launch up Stonehearth and it should work!
I have started it several times. Restarted steam several times. I’m going to try checking integrity of local files right now. It shows all files verified. Still same problem.
well you can try changing the settings, disabling things in the settings to see what happens? Try uninstalling stonehearth, then installing the beta version
The humble install has changed since release date, so I assumed it was updated as well. If not than I really need to find a workaround. I would really like to be using the latest and greatest.
OK, I tried it tonight and it’s working. Was there an update? I didn’t do anything, I just started hoping that there had been an update that fixed the problem. Either there was an update, or it fixed itself (doubtful).
nothing that was publicly announced (or, at least not that -i- noticed)… and i’m assuming you are referring to the HB version suddenly working? either way, excellent news!
My HB version was always working, my steam version works now. I didn’ t do anything to make it work from the last time so I can’t help in diagnosing the problem.
i can only assume the auto-update either didnt trigger before, or some of the 1’s and 0’s got confused, and were repaired/installed on subsequent launches of the steam client…