Posted September 10, 2016
The game was working fine just the other day, and then the next day I try to start it again and it suddenly doesn't work.
I try to run the game by double-clicking the Launcher.exe, or the shortcut icon to the launcher, or the bin/stranger.exe. If using the launcher, the launhcer window opens and lets me select options, and hit Play. All of them end up with the same result - the process stranger.exe starts and is running and visible in Task Manager, but nothing else happens. No game window appears. My computer thinks for a while - the spinner/hourglass cursor is visible for a moment - and then nothing. The process stranger.exe keeps running, seemingly indefinitely - I left the computer on for a long time, and nothing still happened and the process was still there.
I've tried to run as administrator, run without antivirus, run in different compatibility modes, reinstall the game, reboot the computer - no help. It's very weird that just the day before I was able to play the game normally. Some network settings were changed after the last time the game worked - specifically the set of available TLS cipher suites on the computer has changed - but I imagine that's just a coincidence and is not relevant to the game stopping working.
The OS is 64bit Windows 7.
Edit: The game worked again just the other day, and today it again does not work. Very strange behaviour.
Another edit: The game continues to intermittently work on some days and not work on other days. The difference likely has something to do with rebooting the computer sometimes making a difference, and at other times not making a difference.
I try to run the game by double-clicking the Launcher.exe, or the shortcut icon to the launcher, or the bin/stranger.exe. If using the launcher, the launhcer window opens and lets me select options, and hit Play. All of them end up with the same result - the process stranger.exe starts and is running and visible in Task Manager, but nothing else happens. No game window appears. My computer thinks for a while - the spinner/hourglass cursor is visible for a moment - and then nothing. The process stranger.exe keeps running, seemingly indefinitely - I left the computer on for a long time, and nothing still happened and the process was still there.
I've tried to run as administrator, run without antivirus, run in different compatibility modes, reinstall the game, reboot the computer - no help. It's very weird that just the day before I was able to play the game normally. Some network settings were changed after the last time the game worked - specifically the set of available TLS cipher suites on the computer has changed - but I imagine that's just a coincidence and is not relevant to the game stopping working.
The OS is 64bit Windows 7.
Edit: The game worked again just the other day, and today it again does not work. Very strange behaviour.
Another edit: The game continues to intermittently work on some days and not work on other days. The difference likely has something to do with rebooting the computer sometimes making a difference, and at other times not making a difference.
Post edited September 24, 2016 by SirDemon
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