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Posted: 8/30/2016 10:44 PM

Post subject: Game doesn't react

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Arcree2

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Hey ! I want to try to do my first tas with hourglass, I started the game (You Have 10 Seconds) with hourglass but i don't know why, The game doesn't react when i press a key on my keyboard. Do you have an idea for solve this ? Thanks for your help

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Posted: 8/30/2016 10:47 PM

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Invariel

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A bit more information would be helpful: Are you running the game through Steam? Is it some executable you acquired from elsewhere on the internet? Which version of Hourglass are you running? An official build? An interim build? Something you compiled yourself? Is the game otherwise running correctly? (Music and graphics are correct?)

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Posted: 8/31/2016 11:00 AM

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Arcree2

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The game come from Steam but I started him with the .exe (steam\steamapps\...) The Hourglass version is the 81 (come from http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/Hourglass.html) Graphics and music are correct. The only problem is he doesn't react to my keyboard

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Posted: 8/31/2016 7:44 PM

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I'm afraid I am not going to bring better news than this: That's an annoying problem a lot of games experience, sometimes it only happens on Windows 7 and up, other times it's a complete failure. I haven't quite found a solution to it yet. ----------------------------------- Here's a post I made about steam games in another thread, with a little cleaned up wording: Steam games are a a grey area filled with "tread carefully". Currently most Steam games don't run, but there is nothing technically holding them back from running given the correct WinAPI support is added. However, TASing Steam games with any form of internet connectivity is possibly the worst idea ever, since games usually communicate with the Steam servers in one form or another, and when they travel in time while doing it... It's just going to be a mess. If a lot of people do this, Steam will most likely see it as a DDoS attack. Some games apparently run fine with no internet connections, others will probably not. Meaning that a "hacked" Steam DLL needs to be used for those cases. This is not something that Hourglass will do for you for as long as I am a driving member of the project, as bypassing the Steam DLL is a type of copy protection violation, and I would really not want to get sued by Steam / Valve. The same surely goes for any other contributor.

Posted: 8/31/2016 8:45 PM

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