Overgrowth Alpha FAQ

This is the Overgrowth Bug FAQ.

• This FAQ is intended for bug explanations, workarounds, and answer common bug-related questions.
• This FAQ NOT intended as a place for you to post bugs you might have found. If you want to report a bug please do so on Wolfire's Trac.

Please feel free to contribute to this FAQ, and the wiki as a whole!

Any entry should be formated as an informative title, followed by any of the following:

• Symptoms that the bug might exhibit.
• Details about the bug.
• Links to forum topics where the issue mentioned has been discussed/resolved.
• Workarounds to help avoid this bug.
• Fixing instructions to help fix the bug if it occurs.
• Any other relevant information.

General Bugs

Something-Something won't Work! AHHH!

First and foremost, Don't Panic.

Disclaimer: Be prepared for it to just not work at times. Overgrowth is still in its Alpha stage, and the team is focusing more on getting essential features in than working out bugs and compatibility issues. The team will get to them, and will try to occasionally fix very pressing bugs, but sadly sometimes it will just take a while. However that doesn't mean that there's nothing you can do!

Here's what you can do:

• Look at the rest of this Bug FAQ to see if there are any that might fit your situation.
• Check the Secret Preorder Forum and use the lovely search feature. For example if on your vista computer Overgrowth crashes when your character jumps, search for ""Vista Character Jump Crash"".
• Ask on the Wolfire IRC. Many users are long time Alpha testers and will be happy to help you.
• Ask John on Meebo. Although John's time is a valuable, non-renewable resource, he will be happy to help you if you need to talk with someone on the team.

Note: if you decide to request help anywhere please include relevant information such as:

• Alpha Number
• If you're running windows, mac or linux
• what version your OS is
• Relevant system information such as what graphics card your computer has, how Much RAM you have, etc.
• Any Error messages that you see.

Windows Specific Bugs

Error:"cannot create the C:\program files\Overgrowth\Data\config.txt file. ..."

This error applies to both Lugaru and Overgrowth.

Symptom: When attempting to edit the config.txt file the following error message is displayed:

C:\program files\Overgrowth\Data\config.txt file. Make sure the path and file name are correct.

Explanation: Windows Vista Likes to save its config file in a different location. As discussed in this thread on the SPF, The file is actually stored in: C:/users/admin/app data/local virtual store/program files/Overgrowth/config.txt

Mac Specific Bugs

I can't find the Data folder

With the mac version of overgrowth the Data folder is located within the application. You can access it by right clicking the "Overgrowth ##" application and choosing 'Show Contents", and then going to Contents/MacOS/Data

To make future access easier right click 'Data' and choose 'Make Alias'. Now drag this alias out of the application, somewhere easy to find, your desktop for example.

When you now try to open a file from within Overgrowth just navigate to the alias and you should have access to the Contents of the Data folder

Linux Specific Bugs

Bugs need to be added here

Does not exist

Oh noez! However, the Windows version can be run with Wine. It requires the Visual C++ 2005 libraries, which can be installed through winetricks.