Absolute Blue
A downloadable game for Windows
Fight to save mankind in this fantastic 2d shooter! With 60 sectors of pure adrenaline pumping action, awesome graphics and sound, this game is sure to please. You can improve your ship with upgrades and power-ups to transform it into the devastating battle force needed to confront the endless waves of enemy fighters and creatures that will cross your path.
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It finally works! Awesome! I have a very early version from March 2022. The file size has increased significantly. Has more content been added?
No, just weaker zip compression I guess.
This game looks cool! But it doesnt work at all. It really shouldnt even be on itch, I mean every single comment here is about the game not working, so why even have it up?
Can you try to put this file into the game directory and start again:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3xiclab2dlgy07hl2a3nf/absolute_blue.prefs?rlkey=4...
If it doesn't help, feel free to send me the log.txt file of the game folder, maybe we can get some hints where it breaks.
You've had 3+ years to get this figured out, sorry but Im not downloading anything from dropbox.
This is a >20 year old game from myself, which I'm offering for free. I just wanted to be helpful, seems like you didn't want any help with it at all. Feel free to yell around here more if it makes you feel better.
I'm not at all "yelling", or upset in the slightest. Just pointing out that the game is broken and has been broken for years, and that the page should be set to private or taken down. I felt like I upset you and didn't mean to come off as an asshole, so I DID go ahead and download the .pref file and put it into my directory and the game DID work afterwards.
So I hope you update the file here on itch with that .pref file included soon.
Thanks for trying and your feedback. I have updated the game file.
The reason seems to be that either your graphic card or your driver (the game runs on DirectX7 - so current graphic card driver might cause incompatibilities) doesn't support 640x480 Full screen Mode that the game runs by default. The 'prefs' file forces the game to launch in windowed mode which might be more compatible from a today's point of view.
That was probably the reason it didn't run on lots of current hardware (it worked perfectly fine on my two machines).
Hope that helps and no other issues occur (I can provide troubleshooting like this, but it's quite difficult for me to fix the real underlaying issues because the source code is so dated and it would require a lot of rework).
First, I got this on Steam. Memory access error. Ran a memory test- passed with flying colors.
Then I found this page... Same thing.
My system is a Ryzen 9 12 core 7900
128GB RAM
RTX 4070
I tried different compatiblity modes, "run as administrator", got the latest Win 11 updates and eNvidia drivers, and I have come to the absolute conclusion that Absolute Blue is an absolute piece of sh*t.
Thanks so much for wasting my time💯
yo man I just purchased your game and i get the memory acces violation message any help?
Game won't even run for me (Win 10). I just get this error.
Same on Win 11. Screen goes black for a while then the error message. "Troubleshoot compatibility" does not help. AMD Radeon graphics.
Please try the latest update I just uploaded to itch. I hope that helps.
Hi, I've just uploaded an update which I hope fixes your issue.
I'm getting the "memory access violation" error as well, any help would be appreciated; let me know if any additional information on my end would help.
Hi. Can you please contact me at info@intermediaware.de? I'd like to give you an update to try out (and if it works out, I will update the itch.io version, of course).
Thanks for helping me addressing the issue. I have now updated the itch build as well :)
I've been trying to get the game to work for a few minutes now, but all I seem to get is the loading screen crashing and telling me "Memory access violation".
I got it to load up to the main screen once, but had to restart it for windowed mode. Only ever got those memory violations after that.
A shame. It looks really neat....
Hi. Can you please contact me at info@intermediaware.de? I'd like to give you an update to try out (and if it works out, I will update the itch.io version, of course).
Hi, I've just uploaded an update which I hope fixes your issue.