My game stopped working overnight... help?
Dec 14, 2016 23:48:31 GMT -5
Post by Dragoncat99 on Dec 14, 2016 23:48:31 GMT -5
(This is my first time posting on any forum, let alone this one. I hope I'm posting this in the correct place. Forgive me if it isn't.)
Yesterday I was playing for a while, but I saved and quit pretty early into the save file (I had only caught a couple prey items as a warrior at that point.) I saved and quit, but when I tried to reopen the game to continue this morning, it wouldn't open. I don't mean the save file, I mean the game. It loads all the way, but before the window pops up it crashes and gives the message: "Unexpected error occurred when running the game". I researched this error message, and apparently it's not too uncommon with Gamemaker games. Still, this is far from my first time running the game, and nothing about my setup has changed since I had last run it that could have caused it to stop working (Not to my knowledge, anyway). These seem to be the most common reasons for this error message to occur.
This was strange, but I wasn't too surprised. I play these games a lot and they often bug out like this. I wasn't too worried about my save since it was really new anyways, so I deleted my game and re-downloaded it. I started up my new '.exe' of the game, and it crashed again. My save file was still on my desktop. Thinking it was corrupted or something, I deleted it. It still didn't work. I brought the save file back, it still didn't work. I'm not sure what happened, and I haven't been able to find any other accounts of this on these forums so far.
Any further relevant information that might be helpful in identifying this problem:
I'm running Windows 7
I had a previous save file that had been run for several hours but had never been saved, not even once. (I'm still mad at myself for never remembering to save. I was halfway through the game, dang it!)
I have never had any problems with this game or any similar games in the past, and no other programs or games seem to be having problems.
My firewall and virus software are not blocking it, I checked.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Will it fix itself after a while? Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.
Yesterday I was playing for a while, but I saved and quit pretty early into the save file (I had only caught a couple prey items as a warrior at that point.) I saved and quit, but when I tried to reopen the game to continue this morning, it wouldn't open. I don't mean the save file, I mean the game. It loads all the way, but before the window pops up it crashes and gives the message: "Unexpected error occurred when running the game". I researched this error message, and apparently it's not too uncommon with Gamemaker games. Still, this is far from my first time running the game, and nothing about my setup has changed since I had last run it that could have caused it to stop working (Not to my knowledge, anyway). These seem to be the most common reasons for this error message to occur.
This was strange, but I wasn't too surprised. I play these games a lot and they often bug out like this. I wasn't too worried about my save since it was really new anyways, so I deleted my game and re-downloaded it. I started up my new '.exe' of the game, and it crashed again. My save file was still on my desktop. Thinking it was corrupted or something, I deleted it. It still didn't work. I brought the save file back, it still didn't work. I'm not sure what happened, and I haven't been able to find any other accounts of this on these forums so far.
Any further relevant information that might be helpful in identifying this problem:
I'm running Windows 7
I had a previous save file that had been run for several hours but had never been saved, not even once. (I'm still mad at myself for never remembering to save. I was halfway through the game, dang it!)
I have never had any problems with this game or any similar games in the past, and no other programs or games seem to be having problems.
My firewall and virus software are not blocking it, I checked.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Will it fix itself after a while? Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.
