Steam Alpha Testing!

[FuriousD]

Kevin, I'm in the United States, Maryland.

[501105]

Since it now no longer works here, nor for the person who finally got his key, 2x Holland/Netherlands

[Kevin]

OK - crazy hunch time. I think I may know what's going on for at least some people...

If you live between England and the International Date Line, and the game isn't working for you:

Can you try temporarily changing your computer's time zone to, say, New York time, and try running the game?

[501105]

Just changed my time into the time for Central America, instantly worked. So how can time be affecting if the game works or not?

[Kevin]

Ha! Awesome!!!

So, when I'm calculating the "days until next update", I figure out your time zone by asking what time midnight, January 1st, 1970 is to your local computer. Then I use this offset for the subsequent calculations. This works if you live west of Greenwich. If you're east of it, however, it messes something up, and the game asserts.

I'll fix this when I get in, so that you can put your clock back to normal.

[Kevin]

Ok, I've applied the fix, and it is working its way through our servers. This probably isn't the only bug that was stopping people from playing, but if you live anywhere east of England it was stopping you from playing.

I'll post again when it's live.

[Kevin]

OK! It's live now. Give it a test, please!

[501105]

Sadly it does not work for me. If I keep the central America timezone it works like a charm, if I use my regular time it immediately crashes the game.

[Kevin]

Sadly it does not work for me. If I keep the central America timezone it works like a charm, if I use my regular time it immediately crashes the game.

Is this build 68551?

[501105]

It is the up to date version on Steam, since it downloads patches automatically.

[Kevin]

I'm not sure what the propagation time is between international Valve servers, though... Hrmmm. Can you run in the fake timezone, and then press backspace in-game? The build is in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.

[501105]

It says build 68429, so I quess the new build might be a small wait longer.

[Kevin]

Hmmmm. That's annoying. You could try forcing it to update by deleting your local game content and downloading it again.

[501105]

Ow I dont mind the wait, I never look at the time on my pc anyways I also dont want to risk my progress or saves

[CrysZero]

So I just registered to say that all is works fine with new patch, thanks for fix!

Fullscreen Don't Starve, finally!

[501105]

Same here, Steam just jumped to the new build

[GDK]

Tried it, didn't work. Said it needed an update on steam (didn't do it automatically i guess) Update was made, game works now.

So yeah I guess.

[Kevin]

A) Intel Core i3-2310M running at 2.10 with 430 gigs free space

B) Yes, played it in chrome, works perfectly.

C) Consistently slow, the entire environment

D) Update runs between 4 and 14 with render running between 80 and 100. Both on the low end.

Thanks for a great game.

Can you try updating your drivers?

[DonZ]

works fine now testing testing testing

[cptCalavera]

Still wont start for me. :/

[Kevin]

Still wont start for me. :/

Can you try changing your time zone to something in North America and see if that works? It's possible that you have a different issue, or your client isn't updated.

[GDK]

Still wont start for me. :/

Did you update ? IT does it apparently only if you tested and broke again.

For me felt a little slower than in the chrome version but a change is resolution solved the problem.

[cptCalavera]

Yep. I tried the time zome thingy. And deleted content a reinstalled. Still no go.

Edited November 5, 2012 by cptCalavera

[Kevin]

Tried the time zome thingy. And deleted content a reinstalled.

Hmmm. Crappy. Can you find your log.txt file (should be in the same directory as the exe) and email it to dontstarve.debug@kleientertainment.com?

[cptCalavera]

Did and done.