Ren'Py Ren'Py Animations/Renders won't play anymore

[bullman89]

So a few days ago I was playing Waifu Academy and everything was going fine. The next day I see that I need to update my graphics driver, and there are a few other windows updates (non of which I remember the name of). So i update everything, restart my pc, then start playing again, and I notice that the animations are not playing anymore. And this isn't restricted to just Waifu Academy, as animations don't play in either of the Max's Life games either. This has puzzled me for days as I can't find a solution online, and even rolling back the graphics update hasn't worked unless I need to completely reinstall the drivers from scratch. Also there are no errors or anything, the games work fine, but when the animation is supposed to occur, it either shows a placeholder image, or a black screen. I'm running on Windows 7 64 bit if that matters, need any other information just ask.

 

[polywog]

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[bullman89]

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Sorry but I have no idea what these are or how they solve my problem.

 

[koezh]

I'm having the same problem. Animations are just the text over a black screen

 

[Supernova0990]

I also have the same problem. I have this problem with Milfy City and Acting Lessons.
The games run fine never had a problem with it, but whenever an animation is supposed to come up the game just goes black and I get text. I can still click on it to progress the game but I can't see anything.
Is there anything I can do to solve this? I've also seen the links but I have no idea what to do with them.

 

[bullman89]

I also have the same problem. I have this problem with Milfy City and Acting Lessons.
The games run fine never had a problem with it, but whenever an animation is supposed to come up the game just goes black and I get text. I can still click on it to progress the game but I can't see anything.
Is there anything I can do to solve this? I've also seen the links but I have no idea what to do with them.

Well although I haven't found I definite fix, a somewhat "solution" I found is going into the compatibility menu and running the game in compatibility mode for windows 7, and running it as an administrator. But this works for me, not sure if it'll work for you but I hope it does

 

[Supernova0990]

Well although I haven't found I definite fix, a somewhat "solution" I found is going into the compatibility menu and running the game in compatibility mode for windows 7, and running it as an administrator. But this works for me, not sure if it'll work for you but I hope it does

This also works for me, thank you so much for repyling!

 

[bullman89]

This also works for me, thank you so much for repyling!

No problem, glad it worked for you!

 

[Umgenlied]

I can't bloody believe it but i solved it connecting my goddamned earphones on the computer. This was like, my last attempt since i tried all i could think of, and just after i remembered some rpg games wouldn't even launch if they didn't saw an audio entry.

So there it is, if anyone's having this issue, it's worth at least a try just in case.

 

[bullman89]

I can't bloody believe it but i solved it connecting my goddamned earphones on the computer. This was like, my last attempt since i tried all i could think of, and just after i remembered some rpg games wouldn't even launch if they didn't saw an audio entry.

So there it is, if anyone's having this issue, it's worth at least a try just in case.

Were they USB headphones or audio jack headphone/earbuds? Because I have a usb headset plugged in and I still have issues without using my method.

 

[Umgenlied]

Were they USB headphones or audio jack headphone/earbuds? Because I have a usb headset plugged in and I still have issues without using my method.

Audio jack ones. Did you try updating all of your drivers? there can also be something missing related to gaming playability, like Directx, .NET Framework and stuff, Drive Booster is a decent program for doing that, it updates and installs all of what you need.

I think it should work for you, i have W7 64 bits but all of my PC Computers are VERY obsolete(my graphic card has only half a gb of memory and my mother board can't deal with any gpu better than the FX-6350). So if my little computer can handle it, i think any other can.

 

[bullman89]

Audio jack ones. Did you try updating all of your drivers? there can also be something missing related to gaming playability, like Directx, .NET Framework and stuff, Drive Booster is a decent program for doing that, it updates and installs all of what you need.

I think it should work for you, i have W7 64 bits but all of my PC Computers are VERY obsolete(my graphic card has only half a gb of memory and my mother board can't deal with any gpu better than the FX-6350). So if my little computer can handle it, i think any other can.

Unfortunately I have tried updating almost everything I could think of, but none of those really worked. I would probably have to wipe my whole system and start from scratch to get it working the way it's supposed to, but it's no biggy, I got it working even if it is just a temporary solution.

 

[bigboii]

I can't bloody believe it but i solved it connecting my goddamned earphones on the computer. This was like, my last attempt since i tried all i could think of, and just after i remembered some rpg games wouldn't even launch if they didn't saw an audio entry.

So there it is, if anyone's having this issue, it's worth at least a try just in case.

Doing a necro in this thread just to say that was exactly my problem, Renpy is so weird

 

[ascid1]

I can't bloody believe it but i solved it connecting my goddamned earphones on the computer. This was like, my last attempt since i tried all i could think of, and just after i remembered some rpg games wouldn't even launch if they didn't saw an audio entry.

So there it is, if anyone's having this issue, it's worth at least a try just in case.

OH My God this worked, been all over the web for the last 3 days and nothing then just stumbled across this and it worked. Thanks for your share.

 

[kos77303]

I can't bloody believe it but i solved it connecting my goddamned earphones on the computer. This was like, my last attempt since i tried all i could think of, and just after i remembered some rpg games wouldn't even launch if they didn't saw an audio entry.

So there it is, if anyone's having this issue, it's worth at least a try just in case.

Thank you so much !!
I can't believe it. Such a simple solution, and here i was trying for 3 hours yesterday installing drivers and whatnot.
They should really put this in the renpy FAQ