AGS v2.62 Test Game Bug

[hiram]

Hi!

yesterday I started making a game for fun and I got the hang of AGS pretty quickly.
Then suddenl the Test Game option started making problems. When I press
Ctrl+T or choose it from the menu my game no longer starts, agsedit.exe freezes.
When I kill the agsedit.exe process the game eventually starts.

I tried starting the game with its own .exe file, it works perfectly. I tried loading different games in the AGS editor and running the Test Game option but no matter
what game I try to test, the editor freezes.

I don't understand what happened, I could test the game just fine for 20-30 times
and then all of a sudden it no longer worked. I tried restarting Windows but to no avail.

Does anyone know what could be the problem?

[Scorpiorus]

Yeah, it is known to be a problem for some people and it hasn't been resolved yet. A solution, as you mentioned, would be to run exe manually.

Strange, however, that it worked for some time.

[Radiant]

A workaround may be to disable sound and music for your game while testing (using the game's config panel). This has something to do with an application (e.g. the game) 'locking' the music card and not always releasing the lock, and then windows would start a long timeout to see if the card becomes available.
Or maybe not, the problem could be something entirely different.

[Scorpiorus]

Yeah, this trick indeed worked for a random computer I was running AGS on one day. On the other hand, I remember it didn't solved the problem for some people.

[hiram]

Well, I disabled sound and music and the editor still hangs.  It is as you said, strange that it worked for some time. Maybe reinstalling AGS will help.
I just remembered that the first time the editor froze it displayed a message that my graphic card
does not support 15bit resolution, although I have the game set up for 16bit and I didn't change the setting
at any point during the creation of the game.
It reported this message 2-3 times and then it would just freeze and report nothing.

Anyhoo, thanks for the advice you guys,

[Pumaman]

Were you testing in full-screen or windowed?