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joshhunt / GhostOverlay

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Crashes immediately on open #8

Open joshhunt opened 4 years ago

joshhunt commented 4 years ago

From @Paulodemoc:

Yeah, after installing the overlay my game bar just crashes everytime i try to bring it up. Dont even have a chance to try and login or authorize app. Edit: I used the link above to authorize and tried opening the game bar again but it still crashes. If I uninstall the ghost overlay it opens just fine...

Originally posted by @Paulodemoc in https://github.com/joshhunt/GhostOverlay/issues/3#issuecomment-636191389

joshhunt commented 4 years ago

Game Bar itself crashes immediately? That is odd.

First thing's first, check to make sure you're running at least Windows 10 version 1903 or 1909 with all installed Windows Updates. Also check the Microsoft Store if there are any updates pending there.

Once you've confirmed that everything is up to date, use Task Manager to force quit GhostOverlay.exe, then in Explorer put %localappdata%\Packages in the location bar, open the folder beginning with WorldClassDevelopment, then LocalCache. You might any files beginning with world_sql - if you do, the .content file should be exactly 101,868 KB. Regardless, if they're there delete them and try opening Ghost again.

Paulodemoc commented 4 years ago

So, weird thing. Windows is updated. Did your thing, deleted the cache, problem still persists right? So suddenly the overlay disappeared from my machine as if I uninstalled it and I went to check on the Microsoft Store and it's not showing there anymore.... I am going to clone your repo and do some testing/debugging to see if I can find anything...

Paulodemoc commented 4 years ago

So, after some debugging I found out what the issue is: My game bar sdk on the PC is "outdated" still using the old SDK classes (XboxGameBarUIExtension instead of XboxGameBarWidget). The widget worked on my laptop. The thing is both my laptop and pc windows are on the exact same version and have no updates left to install. I have no idea how to update my game bar to work on pc...