Starbound freeze/crash at Chucklefish logo~

I'm sure you're not running windows XP.

 

You running on XP matey?

 

Man this is irritating.

I got the server tool to run through lots of info, but then it hangs at generating the universe/galaxy/etc.

Knawojin, seems like regular not-strange memory use to me.

What I find the strangest, is that every version we try on XP always has 0% CPU use...

 

It's on their stream, buddy. Chucklefishlive, from the mouth of Kyren.

Sorry buddy, but unless if you're an Xp user, you're of no use to us.

 

Sinds I dont have starbound I cannot check this myself but people that has windows xp pleas close steam Add this to a short cut of steam, -forceservice

Kinda like that sorry for the different LNG but you get my point It worked with people wanted to play terraria beta.

 

I opened two instances of it at the same time and it fixed itself. Kinda funky.

 

I tried this and just got laughed at 3 times in a row by a fish and then freeze

 

No not for me.

 

Yeah guys, just wait a while when it shrinks. Probably just an issue with loading that will be fixed soon.

 

I just got on the twitch stream and the devs said that the reason it's not loading on XP is because they never put a progress bar so we cant see it but on older machines it takes forever to load, and on older hard drives it will go VERY Slowly and they will not be working on improving or fixing it until they get to the PAC files.

In other words we are all in for a long wait, guess its time to move on to something else for a while, what a shame.

 

Thanks for this. I'm XP, SP3 3GB RAM - I wouldn't say it was anything close to a good machine but played (what I thought would be a similar performance game) perfectly. Not going to mention its name but began with a T

 

I know some one that has a toaster as a pc, And he doesn't have a trouble with loading, He has a wait time of 5-2 minutes.
And he runs windows xp.

 

On Windows 7, I've had the game crash on the logo several times. Give it time, the game needs a lot of resources to run right now and is not optimized. If you start the task manager, keep track of how much memory is being used by the game. You should get to the start menu once it gets about 800,000 K. Starting the game itself needs about 1,000,000 K. I know this seems like a lot right now, but optimization is not a priority right now. It helps to close other memory hogging applications (Looking at you chrome / firefox) if you are on a lower end machine. Hope this helps

 

My specs are

XP SP3
1TB SATA WD HDD
2GB ram
9400GT video card
Dual core Intel Processor.

Not old at all, just a bit dated. I hope it's something more than just loading times.

Can he actually play the game?

 

Yes WITH alot of lag he is able to play,

 

I had the same issue and I removed all local game files, restarted completely, reinstalled and then ran it and it worked fine. I just cant click or type anything until after the logo goes away or it will freeze like before.

 

DotBeta, you're an awesome guy, and I'm not trying to sway you here, but Kyren misunderstood our case this time. She said that the reason why it was taking so long was because our antiviruses were basically scanning the entire Starbound game file. Having just ran a scan over my Starbound game, I can conclude that three minutes is definitly not a long time, at all. In truth, after two hours of waiting, I realize that it isn't a problem with waiting. Rather this is because the beta version is not meant to be played on XP, simply because, as most people have said, it is a somewhat dated OS.

 

OO BTW, WHEN YOU GO TO YOUR STEAM FOLDER AND THE GAME DOESN'T HAVE THE EXE IN THERE ANY MORE VALIDATE YOUR FILES!
It seems to corrupt your exe SOME times IF it didn't properly start.

 

Doesn't work, Windows 7, 64-bit.

Click 'play' in Steam, starbound.exe starts, then quits immediately. Same happens when manually starting the game with starbound.exe or starbound_opengl.exe. There is no launcher. Same thing happens if I try to run the launcher manually. It just egg timers for a second or two then quits immediately. Starbound.exe is 632MB which seems excessive.

 

Do you hear any sounds before it closes and does it give any error,
Hold Start key and press R, It opens run type down %appdata%
And look if it made a crash dump.