I am not a computer expert but I’ve searched a solution for this problem. When I launched the demo version, I had a white screen then a black one. No image but the sound. I don’t know if that is exactly the problem some of you have but if so I think I have a solution.
For my computer, I think the problem is about the max resolution my computer can have, which is 1366x768 and I read ( but don’t remember where unfortunately ) that the system requirements asks a higher one.
Please know that I am not at all an expert so I might be wrong.
What I did is what is on the following image. Don’t worry about the language on the image, just use the same buttons.
On your desktop, right click on the game, go properties then properties and use " execute with 256 colours " and ok.
Your colours on the CPU will be ugly when you start the game. But it’s perfectly fine. I first did it with the demo, since I played it twice that way I said " right, the game is cool and playing that way, well you get use to it " so I bought the game to try my solution, it works both with the demo and full version.
Right. But node-webkit used to have bug that crashes the renderer process on startup when detecting proxy settings. And when the renderer process crashes, you’ll see a white screen.
this seems like it could be the problem. we had several users report that they could play without an internet connection but with internet connection there are slow-downs or issues.
@gnor, any idea how we could solve this? We only have two calls which require a connection. One is for the update check and one for anonymous analytics.
There are many people who are having this problem. Shouldn’t this be a number one priority fix for the developers? I understand that there are other issues aswell but still…
@Flipflopflip: They are trying to fix this, they just haven’t been able to reproduce it, but it look slike thanks to the help of @gnor that they might be on to something.
@Jamdude1: everybody on windows has Internet Explorer installed, if you choose to use it or not that’s another matter.
You can check the IE options via the control panel then “Internet Options” (you might need to put the “view by” in the top right to “Small Icons” to see it like that), you can then check the connection tab for proxy/lan settings.
Another way of getting to it if you are on vista/win7 is to click on your start menu/windows blob and type “internet options” in to the search box at the bottom.
I have Internet Explorer uninstalled, I’m sure others do as well so not everyone with Windows has IE. I’m not using a proxy connection for my internet.
Whom ever found out that its the internet connection which troubles the game deserves a medal. I have tried playing the game with disabled connection and it works! Well done my friend.
@PatrickKlug and @Fyb3roptik: This affects Linux users as well. A simple fix is to set the NO_PROXY (and no_proxy) environment variable to “127.0.0.1,localhost” before launching the game (so with export NO_PROXY="…" in the wrapper script before ./gamedevtycoon-bin).
@Jamdude1 you can find your network settings in the following way: open cmd.exe; run ipconfig /all
btw, when you see the game stalling in white screen, are you able to switch to task manager and see how many processes from gamedevtycoon.exe (or nw.exe) are in the system?
There are two GameDevTycoon processes in the task manager after I’ve launched the game and the white screen comes up. I am able to end one of the processes but not the other.
All I do now to play the game is disable my internet, launch the game, and turn my internet back on. It works perfectly apart from the internet needs to be disabled upon startup.
