Jennnnnyyyyy

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"Failed to initialize graphics" is an error that you get for multitude of reasons, but it stems out of 2 main problems.

1. You're drivers are outdated and need to be updated to a newer versions (find what GPU u got and update)
If (1) doesn't help you, it means you have an old (really old) gpu which is flagged as "blacklisted" by chromium (the trash rpg maker mz runs on)

2. Google hates you! yes you read this right, google and its chromium based trash decided to block you specifically! sue them. (read above)

There are ways to remove that restriction (if you know what you are doing)

Either you can input ( "chromium-args": "--enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist", ) into package.json (only the green part) in the main root of the game or you can download the modified version i posted (i just added the text above into the right place) and just replace the original file
(I would strongly recommend to remove the original file and then paste the new one as replacing files does create problems at random)
 

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have such issue does some body knows how to fix ?
this happens when the game requests a file while the system has it in diff language, what most likely happened is you have ur files translated to whatever language you got there and the game just cannot find em, could also be where they are place (as in the folder u got is in some non english language)

To fix this you would need to redownload the game and get the original names of the files and have them not be translated (gl with that on windogs) or manually rename every single file that has non english name (or non whatever language u got)
 
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"Failed to initialize graphics" is an error that you get for multitude of reasons, but it stems out of 2 main problems.

1. You're drivers are outdated and need to be updated to a newer versions (find what GPU u got and update)
If (1) doesn't help you, it means you have an old (really old) gpu which is flagged as "blacklisted" by chromium (the trash rpg maker mz runs on)

2. Google hates you! yes you read this right, google and its chromium based trash decided to block you specifically! sue them. (read above)

There are ways to remove that restriction (if you know what you are doing)

Either you can input ( "chromium-args": "--enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist", ) into package.json (only the green part) in the main root of the game or you can download the modified version i posted (i just added the text above into the right place) and just replace the original file
(I would strongly recommend to remove the original file and then paste the new one as replacing files does create problems at random)
In the case of problem 1, or specifically this part "it means you have an old (really old) gpu which is flagged as "blacklisted" by chromium (the trash rpg maker mz runs on)", if that was the case i should be having this problem with all RPGM games, right? Or it would be possible to be having just with this one? I ask because i have downloaded and played dozens of other RPGM games from this very site, this one is the only one where i ever encountered this problem. A shame because this one is one of the games that i wanted to play the most.

As for problem 2, again, if i had it, i should be having this problem with all RPGM games, right? Or again it would be possible to having it only with this one?

The updater driver thing i already tried and it didn't helped.
 

Jennnnnyyyyy

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This game is made in the newest version of RPG maker MZ, this issue does not exist on older engines as they did not use chromium much if at all, MV did have chromium support but it never gave the error as it still run on whatever rpg maker has under the hood.

Since you have a problem with this specific game, i would suggest downloading another rpg maker MZ game (easy way to spot them is folder structure) and see if that runs, if it doesnt, u know ur gpu is donezo for this engine.


Folder structure of MV is "Locales" "Swiftshader" "www" (www includes all the art scripts and whatnot)
Folder structure of MZ is less organized as it removes the "www" folder and just spits all ur folders into the Root of the game.

You could try the file i sent or just write the line of code urself. that will bypass the restriction because this is either a driver issue (which you clarified that its not) or a gpu blockage due to outdated hardware (idk WHAT hardware is outdated as i do not work for either google or rpg maker)

With more issues, you would have to specifically go to seez as its not my game and i dont know what they have put in it and they may be able to help more as they work with the engine more (my knowledge is rather limited in terms of MZ, i know more about VX ace and MV)
 
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This game is made in the newest version of RPG maker MZ, this issue does not exist on older engines as they did not use chromium much if at all, MV did have chromium support but it never gave the error as it still run on whatever rpg maker has under the hood.

Since you have a problem with this specific game, i would suggest downloading another rpg maker MZ game (easy way to spot them is folder structure) and see if that runs, if it doesnt, u know ur gpu is donezo for this engine.


Folder structure of MV is "Locales" "Swiftshader" "www" (www includes all the art scripts and whatnot)
Folder structure of MZ is less organized as it removes the "www" folder and just spits all ur folders into the Root of the game.

You could try the file i sent or just write the line of code urself. that will bypass the restriction because this is either a driver issue (which you clarified that its not) or a gpu blockage due to outdated hardware (idk WHAT hardware is outdated as i do not work for either google or rpg maker)

With more issues, you would have to specifically go to seez as its not my game and i dont know what they have put in it and they may be able to help more as they work with the engine more (my knowledge is rather limited in terms of MZ, i know more about VX ace and MV)
I see. Thanks for the explanation. Now i understand the problem, this will probably help others who are having the same issue as me.
 

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Anyone know what this is referring to? Nothing really stood out to me a substar only when I replayed.
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