RPGMaker MV refuses to start ..

[RHachicho]

RPGMaker MV is refusing to start. This happened randomly without any interference from me. The client SEEMS to start but all i get is a not responding white window. I have tried the following steps.

1. Wait for 30 mins. No change.
2. Uninstalled MV, Restarted Computer, Reinstalled.
3. Updated graphics driver.
4. Shut down my anti virus software and tried to start it.
5. Trying an earlier release of MV.
6. Tried running MV from a different project file than the one I was working on.
7. Cleared Steam Download Cache.

I have the Steam version of MV.

I don't get any error messages the application just doesn't work.

Some hardware info ..
Intel I7 3.6ghz
Nvidia GTX 1070
16gb Ram
Rpgmaker MV is NOT installed on an SSD and is in the same drive as the game I'm trying to open.

 

[ScorchedGround]

Do you have the Steam or non-Steam version of MV?

 

[RHachicho]

OP updated I have the steam version.

 

[ScorchedGround]

Then you could try to empty your download cache.

For that go to your steam settings and then the "Downloads" tab.
At the bottom of the window is a button called "empty download cache".

This might fix the issue but it might not. It's worth a try atleast.

 

[RHachicho]

Unfortunately that did nothing. Thanks for the suggestion tho.

 

[bvlgari]

This happened to me in the past. Turned out that i was trying to open the program with steam closed. Maybe you did some changes on steam config and didnt notice?

 

[Andar]

who is the manufacturer for your display driver? Microsoft or the company who build the chip of the card?

Microsoft's drivers don't fully support OGL, the original driver are better - but once the MS driver is in the update function will never switch back automatically

 

[RHachicho]

I downloaded the drivers from the Nvidia site. I'm not 100% sure how to check that. The driver provider is listed as Nvidia if that's what that means. With the signer saying something about windows compatability publisher. Steam is definitely open. I have tried launching from steam and from the exe. Both have the same result.

 

[Andar]

The driver provider is listed as Nvidia if that's what that means.

That's what I was asking (my windows is in German and I didn't know how it is named in english), and its correct.

Then either there is an interference with a different program than your regular antivirus blocking it (perhaps a network security or parental guidance program or whatever similar), or a driver conflict with a different driver - have you tried updating your audio drivers? Those are rarely the cause, but I heard that two or three times before as the cause of a conflict.

 

[RHachicho]

Sure will give it a try but it's not like the drivers conflicted 2 days ago. One day it was working okay the next bam .. no more MV for you. I did try updating but it told me drivers are up to date.

By the way I also tried running rpgmaker VxAce. That works fine. So this issue is unique to MV. As has already beem mentioned I have tried running the app with no other apps open, No windows, No antivirus, No Discord. Nothing. Only Steam and Rpgmaker. And it still does the same thing.

If you are correct the only thing I can think of is theres some kind of malware interfering. I will run a deep scan. And clean the pc out as best I can. But honestly I don't understand any of this. Why can't the app at least give me an error msg to tell me what went wrong rather than just freezing on launch like this. But i see that devs where too busy reskinning MV as MZ in rather than actually fixing something they made. I suppose that's too much to ask these days .. Honestly even before this the thing hard crashed on a whim and while trying to save. I don't know why this app had to make everything so hard ..

 

[Andar]

By the way I also tried running rpgmaker VxAce. That works fine. So this issue is unique to MV.

I assumed so. Most of the things that can cause conflicts were introduced by MV, like using HTML5 as a base or OGL instead of DirectX to enable non-Windows-OS handling.

One other option: please check if your Windows was updated two days ago. Microsoft can make mistakes, and although it is rare I have heard of at least two different cases where a Windows-Update caused problems with MV and the user had to deinstall that automatic update or wait until the mistake was corrected in the next update.

 

[RHachicho]

I looked at my update history. There where a couple of updates on the 15th October. But MV was working after those dropped. It only stopped a couple of days ago. I left it alone cos I was busy and assumed a restart would fix it. Honestly should I just develop in VxAce? I've literally lost count of the amount of times a hard crash or some rubbish like this has cost me months of work or taken weeks to fix. I'm honestly just .. so .. tired of this. I've been through this before on these forums too. Seems no one has any clue on why MV does what it do. And I've had this on 2 completely different Pc's, Multiple reinstalls of windows. I've persevered with this engine. I really really have. But I can't help feel now .. when all's said and done that my time wouldn't have been better spent learning to ren'py.

 

[RHachicho]

Incidentally. I can play games made in the engine just fine. I tried an old fix of putting the opengl.dll in the install folder. Did nothing. Well I can hardly abandon my project .. trying a pc reset. Wish me luck.

 

[Celestrium]

You could try a system restore in windows to take you back to before you had the problem...I am throwing ideas I would try...

 

[Andar]

I tried an old fix of putting the opengl.dll in the install folder. Did nothing.

of course not - that never was for a problem like you're having now.

when MV was first published, it needed the newest of the OGL versions.
OGL is usually installed together with the display driver, but at that time there were a lot of display drivers that had not yet been updated to include this new OGL.
And if you had a display driver with an older OGL, then the solution was to install the newer library to the program itself,overriding the older version of the library inside the display driver.

But since that time, every display driver got updated to several newer OGL versions...

 

[slimmmeiske2]

I've moved this to Tech Support.

 

[RHachicho]

Thanks Celestrium. I basically went one step further and did a full reinstall of windows. I'm really really hoping that fixes it. Will update.

 

[RHachicho]

Welp .. Whatever WAS the problem .. that fixed it. I hate to have to do so drastic a solution but it was honestly that or keep picking at straws for a week or two. Thanks for everyone who tried to help.

 

[Celestrium]

Windows has been doing updates that have been causing known issues, I had to uninstall an update because it caused errors when I tried to dual screen MZ.
Anyway, I am glad you got the problem fixed, its frustrating to have technical issues like that.