Superheater crashes on startup

[Mellified]

I've tried each version of Superheater on my Windows 11 PC. The config.xml is created and a window shows up briefly. Then the application crashes. Launching from the command line - with -dev or not - results in no output. The event log is empty.

I manually installed .NET 6 32 and 64 bit runtimes without improvement.

Are there other runtime dependencies needed? What can be done to troubleshoot this further?

[fgsfds]

Version 0.5.1 should create superheater.log. Can you check if there's anything in it?

[Mellified]

In the same directory the EXE is run from I assume? It creates a config.xml, but no log file.

[fgsfds]

Weird. Can you set UseLocalRepo to true in the config and see it it launches?

[Mellified]

Same behavior - window outline appears, then disappears. No log file.

[fgsfds]

Can you try this and see if log is created?

[Mellified]

There is a log file with this version. The log file shows...

Current directory detected: C:\SteamSuperheater Starting cleanup...

[fgsfds]

Another one. Hopefully it will create crash event in Event Viewer like this

[Mellified]

I see other app crashes in Event Viewer, but nothing for Superheater. I did try several times and refreshed the log view.

[fgsfds]

Another one with more logging. Sorry for archive-inside-archive, github doesn't accept files > 25mb or 7zips

[Mellified]

OK, so I have been testing on my Win 11 gaming desktop. I recently installed a fresh copy of Win 11 on my laptop, and tested there as well. Seems like whatever the problem is it is happening on a fresh Windows install too.

I saw an outbound connection to github.com as well, FYI.

Desktop:

[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] ---------------- Starting ----------------
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22621.0
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] 0.5.1.0
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Starting cleanup
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Finished cleanup
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] App Initialize started
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Loading ModelsBindings
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Loading ViewModelsBindings
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Loading CommonBindings
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] App Initialize completed
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Starting Desktop Style Application
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Initializing MainWindow
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Initializing MainPage
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Initializing EditorPage
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Initializing NewsPage
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Initializing SettingsPage
[2023-09-30 1:08:30 PM] Initializing AboutPage

Laptop:

[9/30/2023 1:04:29 PM] ---------------- Starting ----------------
[9/30/2023 1:04:29 PM] Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22621.0
[9/30/2023 1:04:29 PM] 0.5.1.0
[9/30/2023 1:04:29 PM] Starting cleanup
[9/30/2023 1:04:29 PM] Finished cleanup
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] App Initialize started
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Loading ModelsBindings
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Loading ViewModelsBindings
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Loading CommonBindings
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] App Initialize completed
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Starting Desktop Style Application
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Initializing MainWindow
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Initializing MainPage
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Initializing EditorPage
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Initializing NewsPage
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Initializing SettingsPage
[9/30/2023 1:04:30 PM] Initializing AboutPage

[fgsfds]

Well, I have no idea what's going on. I'll think of something.

[Mellified]

I installed Visual Studio Community 2022, installed the .net development profile, and tried to open the Superheater.sln project from GitHub. After selecting the "Download.net 4.6" option - but not actually downloading anything! - the app ran.

[fgsfds]

Interesting. Can you check if any of these exes work?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Sf3Sb1kTJd6Nvh6uoSadru371VuWku9_?usp=sharing

[Mellified]

none: seemed to hang the first time I ran it, but was fine after that - even if I deleted the XML files. rtr: works every time! trim: fails consistently.

[fgsfds]

That's unexpected. I was betting on rtr not working 🙂 Thanks for your help, looks like I won't be using trim for the next releases.