Black Screen and Crash on Startup

[silentriot809]

Ok so I bought Prison Architect a while ago and everything was working great until today. Now whenever I try to load up the game through steam or the shortcut the game goes black and than crashes.

I have tried running as admin, updating my video drivers, google, and a bunch of other solutions posted online.

Windows 8 64bit
Intel Graphics HD

Here is my debug file.

alpha-16 pc steam compiled 13:28:31, Dec 20 2013
Loading Preferences from C:\Users\Josh\AppData\Local/Introversion/Prison Architect/preferences.txt
BEGIN DataRegistry DUMP:
Screen
ScreenW [int] 1366
ScreenH [int] 768
ScreenWindowed [bool] 0
ScreenMultiSampled [bool] 0
ScreenSuperSampled [bool] 0
Sound
SoundMixFrequency [int] 22050
SoundVolume [int] 93
SoundSwapStereo [bool] 0
SoundEnableDsp [bool] 1
RenderRooms [bool] 1
RecentMap [string]
FirstTime [bool] 0
AutoSaveTimer [int] 10
HardwareCompat [int] 0
LastKnownVersion [string] alpha-16-pc-steam
FlashMob [bool] 0
RegistrationShown [bool] 1
TimeLapseCamera [int] 0
TimeLapseInterval [int] 1
TimeLapseFPSNumerator [int] 24
TimeLapseFPSDenominator [int] 1
TimeLapseQuality [int] 63
Mods [string] Star Wars - Imperial Architect
END DataRegistry DUMP:
OpenGL Vendor : Intel
OpenGL Renderer : Intel(R) HD Graphics
OpenGL Version : 3.1.0 - Build 9.17.10.3347
OpenGL GLSL : 1.40 - Intel Build 9.17.10.3347
Parsing archive main.dat...
DONE
Parsing archive sounds.dat...
DONE
Invalid multi-byte UTF8 character: 0XFF
Loaded in 1136 strings
Couldn't open unicode language file data/language/fullgame.txt
Initialising SDL Audio:
Frequency: 22050
Format: 32784
Channels: 2
Samples: 512
Size of Stereo Sample: 4
SoundSystem started : 22050Hz x 64 sound channels (including 8 music channels)
Requesting message-of-the-day...
SoundLibrary2D Starting buffer topup thread....
Curl version libcurl/7.27.0
MessageQueue HTTPThread (0C57DAD8) running.
==OPENGL==> [location 'Startup'] error code 0x500 (invalid enumerant)
libpng version 1.4.7 - April 10, 2011
(Running with version 1.4.7)
WARNING: Gfx chip does not support 4096x4096 textures (max size 8192) (or safe mode set). Scaling graphics down.
Object spritebank composite took 2368ms
Warning: Loading a very high res image (2432x128)
[SteamWrapper] SteamAPI is initialised.
[SteamWrapper] Cannot run in development mode.


Any help would be much appreciated!

[Djeego]

I'm having a similar problem:
When launching from the build alpha 16: i get the error failed to initialise 0xc015002

and when launching from steam: Gebeurtenisnaam van probleem: APPCRASH
Naam van de toepassing: prison architect.exe
Versie van toepassing: 0.0.0.0
Tijdstempel van toepassing: 52b46038
Naam van foutmodule: ntdll.dll
Versie van foutmodule: 6.0.6001.18000
Tijdstempel van foutmodule: 4791a783
Uitzonderingscode: c0150002
Uitzonderingsmarge: 0006ecfb
Versie van besturingssysteem: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Landinstelling-id: 1043
Aanvullende informatie 1: 9d13
Aanvullende informatie 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Aanvullende informatie 3: 9d13
Aanvullende informatie 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8

[Master-Guy]

First of all: Djeego, it's not nice to hijack another person's thread. Your problem seems to be different, as your game won't even attempt to start.
You should follow this guide: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... 86588138e2
If that doesn't work, please create your own thread.

As for silentriot809: Can you please list the files from this directory?
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Prison Architect\

[Djeego]

Oh okay, I just tried searching it first and then stumbled upon the same problem. So I didn't want to double post
I had the problem after I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled drivers and windows.
I got the hunch that it just might've had something to do with one of those windows updates and I let it update itself along with a dozen other 'essential' updates et voila !
The game works again!

I was really gutted, after getting discouraged the first couple of tries, I watched all of the alphas to get up to speed and such and stubmled upon a crash when I finally had the courage to start again, so glad I can start planning the execution chamber!