VPet problem solver is in the progress! It will allow you to solve some simple problems (eg: reset settings, change size, turn off mods, etc.).
Solutions to Common Problems
Here are some solutions to common problems, the other VPet can be compatible with fault-tolerant has tried to be compatible with fault-tolerant
Win7 No screen after opening
(It also works on Win10/11 with effects turned off, but it's usually a Win7 problem) Thanks PabloV
You need to turn on all animation effects in your system
Control Panel - System Properties - Performance. Activate the options "Enable desktop compositing" and "Use visual styles on Windows and buttons".
Related Video Tutorials
Error: FIPS/uriString
Errors are generally reported as follows.
The computer lacks FIPS related to lead to, the following provides by the network to collect the solution, by ray ban wayfarer
It has been tested by players who have encountered the problem and have had no problems
1. Press WIN+R (or click Start-Run), type gpedit.msc and then OK to start the Group Policy Editor
2. In the list on the left go to Computer Configuration - Windows Settings - Security Settings - Local Policies - Security Options and on the right go to "System Encryption: Use FIPS-compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing."
3. Double-click on the above policy and in the pop-up options, change the status to Disabled. Then close the group policy
4. Press Win+R (or click Start-Run), type regedit and then OK to start the registry editor
5. Browse to HKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FipsAlgorithmPolicy, change the value of Enabled to 0 and OK
Startup is stuck at Trying to load animation and generate cache
If your computer performance is poor, the first time you start or animation update, the generation of cache will be slower, please be patient, if after more than 20 minutes is still not good, you can refer to the above a tutorial
Startup is Stuck at Loading Steam Workshop on startup
If the network is not good, or is playing the Creative Workshop, or bad luck, will indeed be stuck here for a period of time, I write my own game sometimes also wait here for about 1-5 minutes, usually caused by network fluctuations.
If you still can't start it, you can try to start it without steam, and run VPet.Windows.exe directly when you close steam to see if there is any problem.
Compile VPet source code
It's hard to fix bugs without error messages and locations, so if you're a little computer savvy, try compiling VPet's source code manually to see if there's a problem.
Source code address: github https://github.com/LorisYounger/VPet/
Requirements
Win10 and above
disk C with more than 10G of space
1. Install VisualStudio
Go to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com
Download and install Visual Studio 2022 Community
VisualStudio is the most comprehensive IDE developed by Microsoft for .NET and C# developers on Windows.
Once downloaded, open it and install it, remembering to check the .Net Desktop box.
After that, you can go all the way to the next step and the installation will be finished.
2. Download VPet source code
Source code address github https://github.com/LorisYounger/VPet/
Select download zip, and then unzip
Double-click `VPet.sln` after decompression to open VPet source code.
3. Start compiling
Select X64 and VPet.Simulator.Windows in the upper left corner of VisualStudio.
Click the dark green Run button to run the VPet source code.
If everything runs fine, the game will report an error "缺少模组Core,无法启动桌宠\nMissing module Core, can't start up", as shown here
Next, open the `VPet-Simulator.Windows` folder in the folder directory where the code is located.
Right click to run as administrator mklink.bat
The result of the run is shown in the following figure:
Next, re-click the dark green Run button to run the VPet source code, you can run VPet normally!
