[BUG] Can join games, but hosted games hang at the map load screen saying [no text].

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Beta 2c was working fine for me at first, but a few days ago I tried to host a game, just me vs the AI, and noticed that instead of saying "Conquest" at the map loading screen and describing the victory condition, it just said "[No text]".  But the drive was spinning as if the game was loading and the spinner (the logo that appears and disappears) was going, so I figured it was just a glitch.  However, the game never loaded.  I tried sitting there for about ten minutes before I just gave up and killed the process.  Now it does this whenever I host a game.  I can join other people's games, barring network problems, and play without problems -- but I'm totally unable to host.  I tried different game modes (since it was the game mode text that went missing), but that didn't have any obvious effect; I don't know what other information would be useful.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

have you tried reinstalling the game?

But good that you mention it, all bugs should be reported.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Bas0172, reply 1
have you tried reinstalling the game?

But good that you mention it, all bugs should be reported.
End of Bas0172's quote

 

No, because as a programmer I absolutely hate it when I ask a user for more information, and they say "oh, I reinstalled the program / fixed some files manually / whatever and now I don't get the bug any more".  I don't need to play Demigod so much that I can't be a little considerate to GPG in case they need help tracking this down. :D

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

I tried renaming my user data directory for Demigod, and the problem went away.  Looks like something in the configuration / state data was bad...

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

that sounds like the non-ASCII character bug seen by people with non-English Windows installs.

 

i do believe i've heard from GPG/SD that it'll be fixed in the next beta.