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I'll be updating this guide periodically as common issues arise.

=> Is your game folder installed in a read-only location?

This is a very common problem on Windows.  The game now detects this problem and warns you.

Known-to-be-safe locations include the Desktop and Downloads folder.

If you think your problems are related to write permission, you MUST reinstall the game from scratch in a new location.

NOTE:
A bug was discovered in v65 that is causing "read only" error messages incorrectly.  If you're struggling with this problem, try downloading v65b for Windows and installing from scratch.

=> Trouble connecting

If your game is getting Login Failed errors or generally not able to connect, you should verify that you are not behind a firewall or web proxy that might be blocking the game's attempts to connect out.  The game connects out on ports 80 and 8005.

If connections are being blocked on Windows, you can find evidence of this in stdout.txt.  The various network requests are logged in there, and you can see that they are hanging or failing.

=> Mac issues

Sadly, the Mac platform has become a real headache in recent years.

Unsigned applications, like One Hour One Life, are sandboxed or blocked from running entirely.  If you have a modern Mac, you are probably aware of the work-arounds to launch unsigned applications (right-click and then Open as opposed to double-click, maybe).

Furthermore, Apple does some kind of strange caching of applications that prevents updates from being applied.  Even after the application is updated with a new version, the old version will still run sometimes.

To work around this issue, I need to make a NEW application after every update.  This is called OneLife_vN, where N is the latest version number---for example, OneLife_v60.  After the update, you must run this new application instead of the old one.  In fact, the old one is no longer runnable.  I try to delete it entirely, but MacOS seems to prevent this from happening.  So a "ghost" application is left behind.  This is very confusing, but I can't find a better solution to this problem.

This is an application that updates itself.  MacOS seems to make this difficult.

=> Stuck in fullscreen (Mac)

Fullscreen doesn't work for some reason on some Macs.  It works on my Mac, so I've been unable to track down this problem and find a solution (Mac developers, if you figure it out, let me know please).

Anyway, the game ships in Windowed mode on Mac for this reason.

If you switch it into Fullscreen mode, it might work.  But if it doesn't work, you'll be unable to get back to the Settings screen.

To fix it, go in your settings folder.  Open fullscreen.ini with TextEdit, and put a 0 in that file.

=> VSYNC issues

You can skip this warning by pressing Y on startup, and you should be okay.  The graphics will be slightly less smooth, but still playable.

If you want it to be visually perfect, you need to figure out how to turn vsync on for your graphics card.  Usually there is some kind of control panel or icon in your system tray that lets you access settings.  The same place where you would change the screen resolution and so on.  Once you've found the graphics card control panel, there should be "3D settings" or something like that, and in there there should be a list of settings.  Anti-aliasing, texture filtering, and that kind of thing.  Somewhere on that list, you should see something called Vsync or Vertical Sync.  There are usually multiple options (On, Off, Adaptive).  You should set it to On or maybe Always On.

After that, the game should stop showing that warning.  Note that if you've already pressed Y to bypass the warning in the past, you can go into SETTINGS from the login screen in the game and RE-DETECT to take advantage of your new vsync settings.