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Title: Game wont start (Alpha 6) - SOLVED
Post by: Peacekeep3r777 on August 21, 2014, 09:11:55 AM
Wanted to try out alpha v6, but when i start rimworld.exe, only black screen shows up with mouse cursor and nothing more happens. Any ideas what is wrong? It does the same thing every time i try to play the game and even if i wait, nothing happens.

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Title: Re: Game wont start (Alpha 6)
Post by: Too_Tall on August 21, 2014, 10:03:49 AM
Sounds like a mod issue, one of the mods in your folder are out of date or not compatible with the new alpha version of the game. Try pulling one out at a time and starting the game. Sooner or later it will work and you will find the cause, it is possible that more than one is causing the issue so don't put them back in the mod folder until you have done this for all of them.
Title: Re: Game wont start (Alpha 6)
Post by: Peacekeep3r777 on August 21, 2014, 10:08:59 AM
Tried that out and still no change :/. Strange, never happened to me before.
Title: Re: Game wont start (Alpha 6)
Post by: Haplo on August 21, 2014, 11:52:00 AM
You have the special characters problem. RimWorld doesn't like your name :)
Move it to c:/RimWorld or something like that and try it again.
Title: Re: Game wont start (Alpha 6)
Post by: Peacekeep3r777 on August 21, 2014, 12:07:17 PM
Quote from: Haplo on August 21, 2014, 11:52:00 AM
You have the special characters problem. RimWorld doesn't like your name :)
Move it to c:/RimWorld or something like that and try it again.
Thank you sir, it worked :). Game runs smoothly now, its solved.
Title: Re: Game wont start (Alpha 6) - SOLVED
Post by: StorymasterQ on August 21, 2014, 08:20:25 PM
Quote from: Haplo on August 21, 2014, 11:52:00 AM
You have the special characters problem. RimWorld doesn't like your name :)
Move it to c:/RimWorld or something like that and try it again.

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/09/racist1.gif)

Always makes me laugh when this issue crops up. Anyway, Tynan says he's going to do something about that in Alpha 7.
Title: Re: Game wont start (Alpha 6) - SOLVED
Post by: StatikMilk30 on August 22, 2014, 06:25:17 PM
How do you move it to c:/RimWorld?
Title: Re: Game wont start (Alpha 6) - SOLVED
Post by: Peacekeep3r777 on August 23, 2014, 08:04:30 AM
Quote from: StatikMilk30 on August 22, 2014, 06:25:17 PM
How do you move it to c:/RimWorld?
Easily, just click on  the folder RimWorldAplha and press ctrl + c, after that go to your C: and press ctrl + v. There you go, should work just fine :). Or just follow tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsvGbBizeJA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsvGbBizeJA)