When launching wb I get the command screen for a split second and then nothing is happening. Not even an error window of any kind.
Is this occurring on the Live or the Testing version? Can you give a bit more information on what exactly was happening, for example, does it display ‘Boundless - Running’ on the Steam client briefly? Also, check your game log to see if there’s any noticeable errors in it.
Checked on both live and testing version.
Steam window announcing that builder is starting does appear for a second, command window of the builder then for a moment. Laptop is working hard for another minute before slowing down, but nothing happens.
Steam game list shows “Boundless-running”. I’ll take a look at log file in a minute.
Tried with both AV on and off.
I could play both live and testing Boundless versions.
Omg. Wanted to go back to testing version before checking on the builder and log and I ran into good old issues with starting the game (content locked and such). It took me a while before I got everything running again (re-installing game twice, re-starting windows etc).
So, game is running finally but builder is doing the same. Steam game list shows “Boundless-running” for just few seconds (I thought I saw “running” displayed all the time before but I was wrong).
Gotta go now so will look into log later. Thank you for your time dragon.
I had an issue similar to this a while back, you should go into your Device Manager and check to make sure that you don’t have anything disabled (If it’s disabled, there will be a small yellow triangle symbol on the icon). I can’t remember which one was diabled, but once I re-enabled it, everything worked fine again.
Hope this helps.
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I shall take a look when I’m back on my laptop. Thanks for a tip.
I re-produced the failed start several times now and there’s nothing in worldbuilder log.
Are you running it on Windows or Mac?
What is world builder
Windows, Sir.
@Big-boy World Builder is a tool to create your own planet: terrain trees resources etc. When you buy Boundless you have an option to have it on its own or in a boundle with the builder.
I managed to get an issue where Steam would display ‘Boundless - Running’ and then go back to displaying ‘Boundless’ as if the application terminated by itself (on a Mac), but unlike you, I did not get anything to appear on screen.
One for @lucadeltodecso and @blake to look at.
thanks for all the effort;
I wonder if this could be related to the antivirus again since it doesn’t seem to like us much on your machine 
I’m going to try and get avast installed on a spare machine to see if I can diagnose the file locking issue so I’ll take a look at whether it’s affecting the world builder as well while I’m testing.
I did re-installing, starting as both normal user and administrator both with avast on and off.
I still have problems with starting Boundless (the game) if I dont start steam as administrator or I don’t disable avast for a moment of starting the game, but doing one of the things or both always works. Only world builder stopped responding to those measures.
I tried world builder again - the same happened. Then I started testing version of Boundless and it started loading no problem.
Then I thought about checking game log just in case and I saw a few lines that had just been created, but since the game was loading at that time I couldn’t say if the lines carry info about the game itself or the builder. I paste the lines here just in case so you can take a look at them.
EDIT: I will actually post it separately inthe next post.
EDIT 2: world builder log file still empty
[2017-04-28 08:58:09] INFO …\scripts\application.cpp:253 (turbulenz::oortonline::FindGameRoot) starting root: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Boundless
[2017-04-28 08:58:09] INFO …\scripts\application.cpp:244 (turbulenz::oortonline::IsValidBasePath) path = C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Boundless\assets, exists = true
[2017-04-28 08:58:09] INFO Game version: testing (24095ca0)
[2017-04-28 08:58:09] INFO Loading Audio from assets/wwise/Windows/
[2017-04-28 08:58:09] INFO …\scripts\application.cpp:867 (turbulenz::oortonline::Application::CreateGameSession) session url: https://ga.me/api/v1/games/create-session/boundless-preview
[2017-04-28 08:58:09] INFO …\src\steam\steam.cpp:919 (turbulenz::SteamServices::GetAuthSessionTicket) Got auth token (240 bytes)
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Loading strings
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Updating language mappings…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Loading attribute data
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Attribute precendence sort pass for archetype “crystal”…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Attribute precendence sort pass for archetype “block”…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Attribute precendence sort pass for archetype “forge”…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Attribute precendence sort pass for archetype “character”…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Attribute precendence sort pass for archetype “character”…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Attribute precendence sort pass for archetype “creature”…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Attribute precendence sort pass for archetype “creatureCuttletrunk”…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Attribute precendence sort pass for archetype “creatureHopper”…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Attribute precendence sort pass for archetype “item”…
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO ItemTypesData::CheckStrings
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_AMMO_GRAPPLE_CLAW_METAL string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_AMMO_GRAPPLE_CLAW_ALLOY string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_AMMO_GRAPPLE_CLAW_GEM string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_SPITTER_BASE1 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_SPITTER_BASE2 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_SPITTER_BASE3 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_SPITTER_BASE4 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_SPITTER_BASE5 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_CUTTLETRUNK_BASE1 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_CUTTLETRUNK_BASE2 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_CUTTLETRUNK_BASE3 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_CUTTLETRUNK_BASE4 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_PROJECTILE_CUTTLETRUNK_BASE5 string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_AMMO_GRAPPLE_CLAW_RIFT string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_AMMO_GRAPPLE_CLAW_DARK_MATTER string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_AMMO_GRAPPLE_CLAW_OORT_STONE string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] WARN Item ITEM_TYPE_AMMO_GRAPPLE_CLAW_BLINK string missing
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Loading recipes
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Recipes version 2
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO Loading progression data
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO MeshWorkerManager onMessage 21
[2017-04-28 08:58:10] INFO WORKER_CREATED
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO Loading options file: user_settings\boundmore\gameoptions.json
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO Loading options file: user_settings\boundmore\controls.json
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO Loading compass data
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO Loading combat log data
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO Loading achievement data
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO Initializing client chunk cache
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO Chunk Cache at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\32734353\324510\local\chunkcache
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO …\src\core\filesystem.cpp:447 (turbulenz::filesystem::DumpDirectory) path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\32734353\324510\local\chunkcache/
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO …\src\core\filesystem.cpp:462 (turbulenz::filesystem::DumpDirectory) log.0000000166 [10485760b]
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO …\src\core\filesystem.cpp:462 (turbulenz::filesystem::DumpDirectory) log.0000000167 [10485760b]
[2017-04-28 08:58:11] INFO …\src\core\filesystem.cpp:462 (turbulenz::filesystem::DumpDirectory) main.db [1677164544b]