THESHADOW'S PROFILE

author=theshadow
Hi I am playing this game and until now have really enjoyed it,I have used the guide a couple of times when stuck,but, I am now totally bemused.I am in the hell castle and down in the east basement, I have pushed the statue to the first press pad,and the guide says there should be another statue to the right(I assume),but, I cannot get to that side. Have I done something wrong? I have put screenshots showing statue in place and on the 2nd picture I asume there should be ice to cross east?

author=CrawlingChaox
From what's been written here, I can either assume this issue is due to some type of hardware acceleration being enabled, or maybe this depends on the monitor's refresh rate. It is true that the game has been tested, in the course of four years, on many different setups and this hasn't been a common issue. Technology changes, that much is true too.

Now, please do understand that we have very little control over the hardware side, since this is not our own executable: Theia uses a patched RPG Maker 2003 engine, after all. There is only so much we can do, on our end, to address these issues (also because they seem to affect a minority of the players).

Given our limited resources, the fact that this is not a paid effort, and the fact that we have very little information on your setups ("my PC is very fast" is not much to work with), it should come naturally that support is not something we can snap our fingers at. I wouldn't write Sierra an angry email because my PC doesn't run MSDos point&click adventure games natively. :) If you're finding an issue with your own setup, but you still want to play the game, you can probably look into the cause and correct the issue on your end way faster than we would. And you said it yourself: another RPG Maker 2003 caused the same issue.

There's many options available to keep playing the game: you could just copy your game files to a different machine, play through that part, and then resume your game on your PC when that's done. It's not ideal, but it's something easily done. Better than wait for us to patch something we have no control over.

Of course, no one's asking you to do anything. Theia is provided for free, and you can keep playing for as long as you enjoy it. If the troubleshooting to play RPG Maker 2003 games on your machine is too much for you to bother, then don't bother. It's a bummer, because we want people to enjoy the game, but we won't be throwing Exceeds at anyone if they stop playing because their setup doesn't work.