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This is actually an issue with your computer! It's (probably) happening because Windows 7 only supports DX11.0 features, but the game needs to access DX11.1 features. You can fix this by installing either this platform update, or if that doesn't work, just updating your computer to the latest version of Windows 7.
I'll probably fix it in the next update in a few days, but for now you should be able to fix it like this:
Open your save file with a text editor, find "SpecialEvents_Manager__EventData" and change "Status": 1 to "Status": 0
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
For one reason or another, I keep getting this event popping up and I'm unable to make any decision. I also don't have any idols going by that name. So I don't know what's going on, but it keeps disrupting my ongoing save every time I load in.
both it and the politician event every so often are acting glitchy not responding to clicks or poping up 3 or 4 times when you click a option.
sometimes it just doesnt let you do any actions sometimes it works fine
Edit: here is a example
After i force crashed the game and reloaded hitting continue it moved on like the event never happend
This, surprisingly, actually worked for me.
While I did had to change hairstyles of some idols to hairstyles that were in the 9.1 version the save did load in the 9.1 version and spawned a different, closeable, event. Then that 9.1 save loaded fine in the 10.0 game and I could continue.
But it really isn't a viable, permanent, solution.
Hit the same bug last night.
As it stands, the full screen and event lockup bugs are for all intents and purposes, game killing. The game is currently virtually unplayable.
Yep also got this bugged event. After closing the game and reopening the auto save file the game continuous like the event didn't happen but after a week it pops up again in all its game ending glory, it really is a game ender.
Kinda disappointing that this bug is still here, considering it isn't exactly a rare bug apparently.
I just had to force the game to quit because I got an empty dialogue, myself. I think this is my log? For context I have 10 idols, the only rooms/staff I currently have are my office, two managers, and the break room, and I just launched an internet show a few days before the dialogue started up.
Found a smallish bug while trying to save scum for a audition. When you save just before an audition, say just before you would click that A symbol, and then reload that save, the idols that are presented in the audition screen and the ones you actually get are disconnected. The stats and ability do stayed synced correctly.
To make it more clear, here I reloaded the save because I didn't like the results and tried again. These are my choices this time:
I hire the one selected and finish as usual. But at the introduction screen I get greeted by a completely different avatar
The stats are exactly the same though, only the appearance has changed.
And that is as clear as I can make it. From here on out the game uses the new appearance correctly and no further weirdness is experienced. This only happens if I reload and use the same 'prepared' audition, if I cancel and plan a new audition the disconnect doesn't happen at all.
I'll upload the 2 save games, just in case.
Save just before the audition.
Save after the screenshotted audition
If you load the save again and click the A again, do you still get different people? And when you accept one (say the left-most one), does it generate the same avatar?
And if you try it again, do you get yet another different set of people with different set of stats, and when you select the one at the same position as the last one, does the avatar still be the same as the previous test?
These tests are used determine which things (idol names, stats, avatars) are generated, and which were already decided when the audition was completed. They can also help sadambober zero-in to the fix.
Or I suppose you could peek inside the save game. It's in JSON, so it's quite easy to change into a human-readable format.
Closing and starting the game before loading the save does clear the 'corruption', and you get the results as described in the first point .
So my guess is that the game doesn't clear/reset some variables correctly when loading a save while not closing the game.
Yeah, that's a bug. If you want you can edit your save file
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
Find "data_girls__Girls", find your idol in there and change "status": 6 to "status": 0
Just a note, I was having the same problem and this worked great for me, but I also had to edit the auto_save file to save my hiatus'd idol--I think because I used "save and quit" when I quit out of the game before editing the save files. So, yeah, if anyone tries this and it doesn't work, I'm guessing editing both the manual AND auto save will do the trick.
Please upload this file somewhere, or just send it to me at sadambober@gmail.com
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
And also this folder:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Crashes
There's one other person having this issue, I wasn't able to figure out why yet
Hi, I'm seeing a glitch where after an event happens and I click out of the screen, it blurs out the rest of the game and I'm not able to do anything else so have to force close the game and restart. Sample screenshot attached - this happened immediately after one of my idols graduated. I'm playing on the latest version, 10.1. 
Do you have any mods enabled? If not, please upload Player.log and Player-prev.log to https://file.coffee/
from here C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager
And maybe try deleting everything in this folder
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
This actually happens if you played before the update but started a new game after updating.
You can try to load an old save once (this will "reset" the game) and then continue playing your new save, or delete everything from this folder
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
Another option is to open your new save file with a text editor and replace "version":"Beta #11" with "version":"Beta #10"
Unfortunately, none of these things worked :(
Something I noticed was that although only the blurry screen came up, I could still hover my mouse over where the portraits would be and click there - but doing so would crash the game immediately.
After I changed Beta #11 to Beta #10, it no longer crashed when I clicked the ghost portraits, but I couldn't get out of the screen either
Okay, that's weird. Are you playing on a laptop?
Please upload Player.log and Player-prev.log to https://file.coffee/ after it happens again
from here C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager
Hi, in the new version released today, I'm not able to load into my previously saved up file when I click Continue from the main menu. I can hear the game music and I see lines appear on the loading screen. It almost looks like the game has loaded behind the loading screen, but I'm not able to access anything.
If I try to load the same save from version 10, it's working normally.
Please upload your save file here: https://file.coffee/
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\auto_save.json
Okay, instead of deleting the entire cache folder try deleting everything inside this folder instead
C:\Users\sadambober\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
(or create this folder if you don't have it)
Then try to load this save again. Maybe try waiting a bit longer (initial loading now can take longer, but the game should work faster). If it doesn't work, please let me know what folders you have in data\cache\portraits. It looks like this for me after I load your save:
Okay, I removed everything from the portraits folder and reloaded the save. I waited about 5 minutes this time since I do have a large save file. These are the folders that I have in portraits now so it looks the same as what you have. But unfortunately I'm still seeing the issue and not able to load this particular file.
Yeah, this looks good. There are 3 images inside each folder, right?
Now don't clear this folder, but try adding "version":"Beta #11", in the beginning of your save file https://file.coffee/ZNr11l3dF.json
If it fails once, try again. If that doesn't help, please upload your log files
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player-prev.log
Thanks very much for your help, after adding the version to the save file and restarting twice I was able to access my save :)
I agree about auto save having gotten worse. Before, auto save would bring me right to the moment before the game crashed. Now I'm losing entire concert performances, upgrading song genres, song releases, etc. I was fine with the game crashing before because auto save was so good but now I lose so much!
Here you go: https://file.coffee/O3zenjrOZ.log
I got one broken shoplifting event, then two broken cosplay scandals in a row. Do let me know if you see anything wrong with the file.
I'll try replacing those files with their original versions, see if that fixes it. Just for some extra context, I managed to play Beta #11 for over 2h with the updated, translated files before this issue started happening. Maybe it was something I changed in one of the files between last night and today, but either way, I'll send you the translated files.
Okay, you just missed commas in vars.json, adding them should fix it. Btw you can use something like Sublime Text to edit files, it can highlight errors
Just realized as well that the game definitely isn’t awarding those same awards that aren’t upticking (gravure, variety, fashion). They were awarded the first year but not the two after that. Also iirc the hosts/game doesn’t give out awards for anything your own group isn’t nominated for? (Ie the first year every award was assigned to a group but now only things you are eligible for are mentioned.) Is that a bug or purposeful?
Yeah, that's on purpose, I thought it would get annoying to sit through the same thing every year
Player.log : https://file.coffee/JualBUXGY.log
Player-prev.log : https://file.coffee/k9_iWR-4H.log
Can you please upload your save file to https://file.coffee if you still have it?
Windows:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\auto_save.json or
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves\*\save.json
Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/auto_save.json
~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/manual_saves
Please try deleting everything in this folder, this might fix auditions for you:
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/cache/portraits
Also, I don't think it's your case, but this could help too: https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzI3MzUyMDEucG5n/original/SAD%2F2A.png
A little reticent to go with the first fix listed because if you asked to find something called Glitch Pitch on my computer, I would be searching for days since it does not exist. It is the same for anything to do with LocalLow or even something called Data in regards to the Idol Manager folder. Overly cautious, I guess.
Please try this (or let me know if you're on a Mac):
Let me know if that helped!
I sent you a fixed save file
I think the bug is caused by media shows with 10 stars fame, so I had to cancel two of your shows. I'll fix this in the next update, but for now you have to make sure you don't have any shows like these (e.g. by assigning a host with < 10 fame).
Thanks for helping catch the bug!
Rooms you build on the floor you start with are supposed to be rent-free, right? Or did that change in an update? Because as far as I know, that's not actually the case. It's not a problem to me either way, it's just that you're told that the floor is rent-free when building rooms in it, like I did with this office here, when again, that isn't actually the case.
No matter how much money I earn it seems to always be stuck saying "bankruptcy in 29 days." It never updates to a different amount of days and never goes away even with over ¥3 million saved up.
Also not sure what happened here but it was kind of confusing when all of this popped up at the same time. Akari simultaneously lost 30 points, immediately gained them back, and then lost them again all at once, while Yuna did the opposite and gained 30 points, lost 30 points, and then gained 30 points back all at the same time. This chain of events seems kind of unreaistic to all occur at the exact same time.
This happened to me as well. It added 2 group scandal points when I reopened the game and after I tried to remove them by firing a staffer the time froze.
Edit: I went back and tested it and when I fired one of my staffers that I've had for a long time it worked fine, but when I hired a new staffer and immediately fired them the tooltip listed that it took 2 scandal points but when the window popped up I could only take off one and then after I closed the window the time froze again.
I found a bug that can cause this - it happens if you fire a staffer when your staff tab is in compact view. You'll have to switch to the full view every time you need to fire someone until the next update.
Another related bug - hovering over a staffer in the building view to show their tooltip and then firing them. Can be avoided by hovering over another staffer, before firing that first one.
Ah, you have to “research” them first, check the research tab
I forgot to add a tooltip for this
How many scandal points do you have? There's a penalty to auditions if you have too many
I don't know how it happened, and I did nothing special in the game.
I think I never need to worry about the money in this round lol.
Everytime I play, no matter what I try , The game freeze during April 2029. I dont know what to do. I restarted my pc, I tried to load from a different save file. I dont know if I'm doing things wrong. Am I the only one having this bug? or it's part of the game?
When i put a girl on hiatus, the date of her rehabilitation doesn't appear. I'ts a bug?
I don't think the game is discounting the free floor on rent.
Beta 14, Version 33, Windows 64-Bit
EDIT: Loading saved games apparently is not working either?
EDIT2: I may have forgotten to delete the old folders, game loaded up fine after reinstalling.
EDIT3: 
Hi, have you tried deleting some of your cache files? It's supposed to fix another bug, but who knows, maybe it'll help you.
Win: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\cache\portraits
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Glitch Pitch/Idol Manager/data/cache/portraits
Please upload somewhere or send me to sadambober@gmail.com these files:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\global_data.json
And any of your save files that don't work
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
btw is it normal that I dont make one penny from the theater(I always sold out)? I've 2 theater and I'm losing to much money on rent...
I don't know if the star symbol broke it or something but it was fine at first, then as he kept talking, it sort of fell apart.
Edit: I found another bug! One of my idols graduated and found a successor, but it seems that another idol of mine has confused the successor with the graduated one. Even when I hover over the profile, it shows me the stats of the graduated idol.
Have you ever installed any mods?
If not, please upload somewhere or send me to sadambober@gmail.com these files:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\global_data.json
And any of your save files that don't work
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves
I do not understand how the recent average idol earnings are considered. Or why is the recent average earnings equal to all-time earnings divided by 4?
Example: I have an advertising contract for 56 k per week, then the average and all-time earnings will change as in the table below
| Weeks | Recent average earnings | Total earning |
| 1 week | 14 k | 56 k |
| 2 week | 28 k | 112 k |
| 3 week | 42 k | 168 k |
| 4 week | 56 k | 224 k |
| 5 week | 70 k | 280 k |
same problem here :( the elections just stuck at the live blog even after 3 elections
I think this would count as a bug but it isn't game breaking or anything. Figured I should post it here so if there is an issue it can get fixed
Hi,
I have some troubles with the game. Unfortunaly, the game crash very often. When the game crash my graphic pilot is shutdown. I nerver see this before.
I send you the player.log + error.log.
Not sure; if it's a bug or not but some girls can't up their cool or sexy styling as you can see on the screenshoot.
Thanks for your hard working !
Cheers.
Yep, check this update for more info https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuiper/idol-manager/posts/2528978
Styling doesn't actually cost any stamina, so that's okay. But the rent is a bug, thanks, I'll check it.
So, i've been playing the game for a couple of days and so far i've come across two bugs, the first one is when i load a save sometimes all the idols from my idols list disappear, reloading doesn't fix the bug but restarting the game fixes it so i'm not too bothered. the second one, im not really sure if this is a bug or not, but the time stops when i hit February 4, 2022. the animation still plays but the time,practice, business, and other bars stops moving. i tried waiting but the bars never start moving again. ill start another save in the meantime to try and see if its just a one time bug or not. anyways, Good luck on the game, its been great so far. Cheers!
it stops here btw.
I'll fix this in the next update, but here's a quick fix for you:
1. Launch the game, load your save file
2. There's a doctor on the second floor, Yamauchi Saki. Cancel her task. (For anyone else having this issue, you can try canceling tasks of all staffers).
3. You can unpause the game now and it should work
Thanks for the report! And let me know if it didn't work
Please upload somewhere or send me at sadambober@gmail.com these files:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\Player.log
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\global_data.json
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager\data\manual_saves\
I'm reworking the way modding works, and because of that custom sprites don't work in this version. They should work again after the next update.
For now you can download the older version of the game using the itch.io app: https://itch.io/app
("Library" -> Click on the game -> Click on the options gear icon -> "Manage" (or "Install" first if you haven't already, then "Manage") -> "Switch to another version")
This actually seems to happen regardless of whether or not I have the idol - the amount displayed after you hit negotiate, whether you succeed or fail, is often incorrect and doesn't match what it should be.
Some more:
If I'm dragging an idol to socialize and that idol is automatically pulled into another room (practice, styling etc) the idol's portrait gets stuck on the mouse cursor. Nothing breaks and you can drag a different idol to make it go away. Edit: "Socialize" gets stuck on display on your room, though, and that doesn't go away.
Switching from Compact view to Full view for idols will add an extra copy of the idols list every time (so you get to the last idol and under it will be the whole menu including the "new group" button).
Compact view does not show idols in sister groups.
Canceling a practice/styling/doctor session by clicking on the idol portrait or using the idol menu will make the staffer idle. Doctors are especially buggy since their auto actions are still toggled on, and so you need to toggle a new action or deselect an old one to make them work again.
The "no critical failure" card for concerts doesn't seem to do anything at all.
Trying to release a non-election single with the election concert ready to go triggered the concert music and locked the game. Upon closing and reloading, it automatically started the concert with buggy (white square) idol portraits and didn't release the non-election single.
Edit:
More:
You can't set an automatic style in the "auto practice" menu for idols (it doesn't select the option and will de-select any other options you have).
If you click promotion/performance/spa treatment right as the day is about to end with an active queue, it replaces the next item on your queue.
If you remove items from the queue when it's full, you can't queue up additional things until the next day.
I made a separate thread about this, but I'm concerned it'll be missed if it's not also included in this thread, so I'm posting here as well. In the "auto practice" menu for an idol (see attached picture), you can select the first 4 options ("Don't practice" through "Dance") but not the last 5 options ("All visual params" through "Pretty").
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When you go here, you don't have the download button? https://itch.io/my-collections
Or you can try using the app https://itch.io/app
Hi !
On the 19 update, when I pass my mouse over the idol doing activities in the compagny I get this :
Sometimes, it just a few stats that are replace by ''cute : 76'' but it's always the same number and it's for all of my idols.
When you complete a wish you have to click on it in the tasks section to complete it, same with loan requirements
Do you still have this issue after the update? Have you ever played the game before or is it your first time?
If it worked before you can try deleting (or renaming) the save folder C:\Users\*username*\AppData\LocalLow\Glitch Pitch\Idol Manager, apparently this helped someone
fyi you can always contact itch.io support to get a refund: https://itch.io/support
I had the same issue, but I had to fiddle around inside my save file to fix it.
In my case, I had to open up my save file, scroll down to "data_dialogues_Data," find the last story event listed there, and deleted that off of my file. I made a backup in case something went wrong, loaded up the new file, and used the cheat (~) to manually start up the event, and it worked.
I dunno if this'll work for you guys, but it worked for me. I did end up a few story events back from where I actually was, but everything seemed to play out as it was supposed to. I think I ended up sidestepping the issue by allowing an older story chapter to trigger instead, so this probably isn't an actual fix, so if anyone could find a better solution, that'd be much appreciated.
had a dating issue too, after having 3 dates working well ( the initial -restaurant- one, the aquarium and the game area ) the 3rd one i tried ( i think it was the libary one ) it just didnt show up any action/dialog/window and did stay in management mode. After loading older savegames, even the dates which did work before, didnt work anymore. After clicking "invite on a date" it just hits me back on management screen without something happening.
but so far, i love it :D hope its getting fixed soon =)
1. You will need to update the game to the newest version
2. After that you either need to load a previous save file where you still have a story task (if you didn't save manually, you still should have an auto save file at the start of the chapter. Click "Chapter 2" in the loading menu)
Or you can trigger the event manually: press F7 five times to unlock cheats. Then press F7 again and select "story_chapter_1_25", this should restart the story from the rival dialogue.
Actually, if you don't want to wait, you can just replace this file
*game_folder*\IM_Data\StreamingAssets\Languages\en\JSON\Events\dialogues.json
with this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1st5zec8elt8Zgrbb1dDzK97i3qE0yWTy/view?usp=shari...
(You'll have to either load a save before the ramen dialogue, or use cheats to trigger "story_chapter_2_28")
Thanks, I see what might've caused this
For now to fix this you can just F7 -> "Complete all tasks"
If you have other tasks that you don't want to complete, you can delete this variable from your save file and trigger story_chapter_3_event_6 again
Thank you for the incredibly fast response! I really appreciate it. I'm downloading the latest update tonight, if I run back into this issue, I'll give this a try!
Yeah, this part can get bugged. You can try this https://itch.io/post/2372198 (press F7 5 times to unlock the debug menu), or wait for a patch (probably in a day or so)
I think something disappeared...I have no buzz and I don't gain fan from the buzz when releasing a new single. 
In this instance, I'm trying to select a Preferred Proposal with a standard click. Menu items with check boxes are not selectable for me this way. (or I'm doing something wrong)
