Closed Game Crashes - Fatal Exception Error

Same problem here. I spent about an hour downloading the separate Starbound for unstable/nightly and I got rewarded with this bug.

 

I have the same problem too.
I also tried with administrative mode and it didn't launch :/

 

still broken after another update it seems

 

I got the main menu sort-of working, enough that i could click single player and select my Novakid.
But then the game crashes again. I checked the .log file.. It looks like every single .png in the game is not loading properly, and every single .png is not finding their associated .frames file.

The only way to make current nightly work that I could manage is to mod in every single file from a previous working version. Its fine, Chucklefish is probably changing something big.

 

I really dont understand why they update it if its broken. Dont see the sense in it. Oh well i have uninstalled it and just going to forget about nightly for now. Not worth the stress dealing with it. Like i said before if you are using nightly as test bed for stable then make sure we can use it. Dont mind hunting errors ingame but if you cant even get the game to run thats just stupid and it just wastes my time. Have fun all.

 

exactly, if you dont fix the problem where it starts than its likley to cause more problems down the road even if you do fix it, also if the game isnt feature complete, its called alpha, not beta, but whatever, im just some space hobo, what do i know?

 

TanzNukeTerror made a post on one of the dev blogs with directions for a temporary fix for nightly. I tried it myself and it works, so I'll just leave what he said here.
Note: The fix only works for Windows!

 

Iirc the new nightly version is automatically uploaded every night. It's not meant to be stable or even playable, it's just the most up to date snapshot of what the devs have implemented into the game.

 

You guys need to take a chill pill. They're trying their hardest to fix Unstable/Nightly, it isn't like they forgot about it or anything. Just be patient and quit bashing on Chucklefish. It's called UNSTABLE for a reason. You've been warned about stuff like this is going to happen.

 

[nitpick] Actually unstable is pretty much the same as stable right now. People aren't having an issue with unstable, they're having an issue with nightly, which is more chaotic in nature than unstable. [/nitpick]
Actually nightly is how I expected the stable branch to be when I signed up, constantly breaking and wiping things, not working some days.. etc.

Nightly is fun sometimes. I like the direction they're taking the game.

 

Actually, I updated the entry yesterday to (hopefully) help Mac and Linux users.

 

They know about it and are trying to fix it. Just play stable for a few days or give SB a break and do other things. The devs will have it fixed soon.

 

As far as I know the nightly build is pretty much their in-house test build as well, so I imagine that they don't know it's broken until the upload it. They don't test the build prior to nightly compiling because that's exactly what nightly is for.

 

The issue isn't assets being corrupted OR missing, something is wrong with the .pak loader, if you unpack it and put all that stuff in the mods folder it works perfectly fine

 

If thats the case... instead of making a mods file... couldnt we just move stables unpacker.exes to nightly?

 

i don't think that it unpacks it each time we load the game

 

Darn.. was hoping for a faster way than moving the entire game around then copying it to a mods folder... starbounds pretty big for a 2d game

 

Actually merging changes into master branch without testing them prior merge is hardly a good practice and I doubt they were unaware game will crash... Anyway, my bet is devs are working on something massive currently (today blog post supports this theory) and have decided to push toward a change rather than make a temporary fix. Which is by all means good decision IMO, because it saves them time. I'm also a bit disappointed I can't launch nightly (today I've decided to take a look at the state of SB after several months of not playing it), but hey, nightly is nightly, it has no obligation to work! If it does, it's cool, if it doesn't, it's also what we signed for when we've switched to nightly channel!

 

Saturday mornin' . . . still no fix . . .

I hope that this downtime is indeed due to a major change that will radically improve the game. I was really lookin' forward to doin' some testing :\