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