Potential crash and framerate fixes.

Possible Framerate Solutions

Originally posted by Ender: Hi, sorry to hear about the issue you've encountered. Please try the following steps:



First:



1. Right Click Transistor in your Steam Library

2. Properties -> Set Launch Options...

3. /nofixedstep

4. Hit ok and try running the game - see if that helps



Second:



1. Right Click Transistor in your Steam Library

2. Properties -> Set Launch Options...

3. /SwapInterval=-1 (remove /nofixedstep if you tried the first work around)

4. Hit ok and try running the game - see if that helps

Originally posted by Ender: The following command line options can be used to control the game's refresh rate:

/nofixedstep

/SwapInterval=-1

/SwapInterval=0

Originally posted by Ender: 1 is on (the default), 0 is off, and -1 is adaptive

Possible Crash Solutions

Originally posted by kamikazesaint: I've finished downloading Transistor, but nothing happens when I click play. It opens up the "Launching Transistor" window but then nothing happens.



EDIT: If you copy your Content folder from the Transistor files into the x86 file you can boot from the application in the x86 file. Works for most people. Try swapping it into the x64 file if that doesn't work.



EDIT2: If that still doesn't work. Make sure your Microsoft .Net and DirectX are up to date.

Update Microsoft .Net

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=40773



Update DirectX

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=35



I also ran the System File Checker just incase it was my Kernelbase.dll

a. Click Start and type cmd in start search.

b. Right click on Command Prompt to select "Run as Administrator".

c. Type: sfc<space>/scannow.

Originally posted by Ender: To try manually installing the required frameworks, you can run the various installers located here:

\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Transistor\_CommonRedist

Originally posted by MariuZ: I found a way to get the x64 version working -> try the following command as admin:



mklink "[your path to steam]\steamapps\common\Transistor\x64\Content" "[your path to steam]\steamapps\common\Transistor\Content" /J



Then manually start the Transistor.exe in the x64 Folder

Originally posted by Lynx: Just came here to let everyone know that running every single installer in the Steam\SteamApps\common\Transistor\_CommonRedist folder as well as doing the mklink command someone posted in this thread did work for me.

Originally posted by AimeR: Hey,



I managed to fix my issue.



Here's a brief summary:

1. Looking at the event log entry I figured out Transistor is an OpenGL game.

2. As I've heard OpenGL can be fidgety on Windows 8.1 I used "glewinfo" to diagnose my video card's state (link - http://sourceforge.net/projects/glew/)

3. All OpenGL features were flagged as MISSING on my system

4. I attempted to reinstall my video card drivers (AMD Catalyst) and everything seemed to have finished fine, but after checking in the windows device manager it looks like WINDOWS BLOCKED MY DRIVER UPDATE FOR NO GOOD REASON and I was left running the default Microsoft driver

5. I used the "Update Driver..." option and selected the driver in "C:\AMD\Support\****\Packages\Drivers\Display\W86A_INF"

6. I reran "glewinfo" and confirned most of the OpenGL features are OK, and only a few are missing

7. I started the game and everything works now



The above should help the devs (or someone else that is more of a windows power user) in posting a better guide for resolving the issue. I won't be doing so, as I can't wait to play the game.



All the best,

AimeR

While neither of these problems are easily solvable currently, as Supergiant is probably scrambling together patches given the info we're providing, there have been some possible solutions provided by the devs and others in the community to help alleviate them for the time being. None of these solutions are absolutely certain to work with your system, however, none of them are likely to harm it either, making it okay to try them to improve your game's performance until it is hopefully fixed by a patch.As reported by Ender in this thread , the following may help smooth out your framerate stuttering or lag:Additional information on what these settings relate to can be found here. Aside from this, other users have reported that enabling Vsync in their graphics card control panels (Nvidia Control Panel for Nvidia users, Catalyst Control Center for AMD users) has alleviated some of the problems. As well, disabling the Steam overlay and running the game in Steam's offline mode has led to some reported framerate increases by some users. Do note though that running games in offline mode willallow you to acquire achievements, so if that is a major goal for you, you may be best suited trying the aforementioned solutions first.I would also recommend that youtry all these solutions at once. The basic reason being that doing so prevents you from identifying the exact source of your troubles, making replication on other systems you may use more difficult than you would like. Take it slow, try each solution on its own, keep an eye on how it affects or does not affect the game, undo it if it did not help, then try another. After you've tried them separately and found none helped alone, then you would do well to try them together, but again, I would recommend only a couple together, rather than all at once, for the same reasons mentioned above.Alongside all of that, if the solution involves installing anything, whether driver or framework, Irecommend restarting your system to ensure that everything has been fully set in place. This minor inconvenience could recover hours of frustration for you, I assure you.Currently the top solution for most crashes seems to have been found by Kamikazesaint in this thread I don't care for his wording there as file seems confusing, but he's pretty much on target (for some users). Copy the Content folder in your Transistor folder into either the x86 folder or x64 folder, then try running the game executable (Transistor/Transistor.exe) from within that folder to hopefully get your game running. For the more technically inclined, Justin-Credible thinks he has the reason behind this As Kamikaze notes, installing an up to date .Net framework may help, and as Ender notes in that same thread , those files can be found in the Transistor directory.For some, this still did not work, but there was a reported fix by MariuZ that another tried in combination with this thatwork, noted here by Lynx.However whether this was a result of running the installers or MariuZ's fix is unclear as Lynx did not note whether he/she tried one in isolation from the other, or simply tried both at once. My advice from above applies here, try one, still doesn't work, try the next, neither worked, try them together (albeit at this point with this fix, doing one after the other would try them together whether you like it or not).A user by the name of AimeR may have a solution for you in this post. As clarification, where AimeR has put asterisks, that is where the most up to date driver folder would be, so for example:C:\AMD\Support\\Packages\Drivers\Display\W86A_INF-----------------------------------------Okay, I think that's a decent number of the most reported fixes I've seen so far, if you know of any more, please post them in response and try to be as thorough as you can to help others. If I have not included a solution, don't mistake that for there not being one, I have only scoured a few threads for reported fixes to compile into this post, with new ones probably being made as I wrote this and certainly after I've written this.I would highly recommend following Ender's post history not to be a creep, but to keep on top of official potential solutions from Supergiant. This has been how I found much of what I found to bring to you here. I hope something here may help you enjoy the glory that is Transistor, as personally, I've loved every little part of it I've played so far, of what little I've played.Thanks for skimming and/or reading!