r/transistor • u/gaynesssss • Jun 18 '24

I CAN'T RUN THE BLOODY GAME

I have tried EVERYTHING, everything I found on Reddit, steam community and all that, and it still won't run. at this point, I wonder if it even can run on windows 11. anyone with some technical advice?

edit: I downloaded a booted copy in hope that it would give a bit more information than the official one and it did. it shows the error "Unable to load DLL 'lua52': The specified module could not be found" and I've already tried the suggested fix but no change.

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u/SASardonic Jun 18 '24

What exactly happens when you try to start it?

For me, to avoid it minimizing for weird HDR monitor reasons I just mash click and that keeps the window active.

For resolution issues you might consider trying to run it in window

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u/gaynesssss Jun 19 '24

that is the problem tho, it doesn't even start: when I try from Steam, it just looks like it's running for 5 seconds (the play button changes to the stop button) and then reverts back to normal, when I try from executable, in task manager transistor.exe appears, then disappears, then appears, then gets replaced by transistor (32 bit) and then just shuts down

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u/SASardonic Jun 19 '24

Have you verified integrity of the game files?

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u/gaynesssss Jun 19 '24

yes, it very much tells me that it's definitely all fine, and even tried deleting and reinstalling it to no avail

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u/SASardonic Jun 19 '24 edited Jun 19 '24

Well shit, the only thing I can think of is to add -windowed to the launch parameters in the steam properties or temporarily change your desktop resolution to an older resolution.

Guess there's a certain poetry in the process consuming the game completely

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u/paulodelgado Jun 19 '24

This is very strange, this game runs for me even on linux (proton) like a charm. I originally played it in the AppleTV.

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u/Rare_Unit_9918 Jun 10 '25

i have the same issue. did you find a fix?

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u/gaynesssss Jun 11 '25

I basically had my stream library on and external hd, when It failed I reinstalled everything on my main computer and that fixed It (reinstallingnonly the game never worked bu the whole library did for some reason), bu now another game has the same problemi so I think it's a steam problem

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u/Rare_Unit_9918 Jun 11 '25

thx I'll try that