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Blank Screen

A topic by Doctor Ramen created Feb 20, 2021 Views: 3,850 Replies: 10
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I was messing around with the settings, and after changing the language a few times, the entire window went blank. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing the app twice, and re-starting my computer, but it's still stuck like that. The only thing I can see is the tabs in my menu bar that show it's still stuck on Brazilian Portuguese… Pressing Shift+F12 opens the developer tools and shows me that there's some kind of error, but I have no idea what it means. The only thing I can kind of read is the title to each error (there are two, I guess), which says "RangeError: Incorrect locale information provided"… I have no idea what that means. Looking it up doesn't give me any results I can understand. Can anyone help me out?

the same thing happened to me, after changing the language the application screen went black and I couldn't use it anymore. even reinstalling it was the same

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I'd appreciate if someone helped with this. It's been like this for about two months now. I'm using it on MacOS.

it happened to me too :/

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Please try not to bump multiple old topics. You’ll want to try a fresh reinstall of the app. There could be any number of reasons why the app isn’t displaying, such as virus or security software interfering with normal operation, disk space issues, etc.

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re-installing it doesn't help for some reason

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Hey, this problem happened to me too and I just solved it. I'm using Windows so idk if this works on MacOs. But here's what I did (not an expert on these things, this is just what worked with me):

First of all, the problem is (probably) with the Brazilian Portuguese language (don't know why). So, you just have to find the location where the configurations of itch.io app is and change the locale from 'pt-BR' back to 'en-US'.

To do this in Windows:
1.  Go to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\itch
2. Open the "preferences.json" file with the NotePad, go to the end of the line and you'll see the part where it says the language you chose. Change to this: "lang":"en-US".
3.  Open the "Preferences" file with the NotePad and change the dictionaries part to 'en-US' (that's what you'll do with basically everything). I don't know if changing the dictionaries is essential to solving this, but I changed just in case.
4.  Now go to Partitions\itch-app and do the same thing of Step 3.
5. Go to Partitions\itchio-3424454 and do the same thing of Step 3.

And that's basically everything I did. If you want to, you can delete every file related to or named with 'pt-BR', just to be sure that it'll work. Again, I don't know if this is accurate, I'm not a specialist or anything haha. You can also delete the entire "itch" folder on Roaming and reinstall the app to see if it works!

Good luck, guys!!

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I managed to do this with my Mac, and it worked! Thank you so much for your help! It was relatively easy to find all the files. They have all the same names and suffixes. So if anyone else has this problem, it shouldn't be too much trouble to follow these steps with either type of computer.

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it works! but I had to press Windows + R and I put "appdata" and after that I followed your tutorial

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There is an easier solution, and you are still able to use the pt-BR lang just fine. I went online and found the solution, gonna keep it for posterity here if anyone needs it.
This is caused by an error in the preferences.json file, where it should be pt-BR it is pt_BR which causes the error to fix this is quite simple:

1. Open the preferences.json file which is located C:\Users\{YourUser}\AppData\Roaming\itch for windows users (You can also access this by using Windows + R and type %appdata% , or you can just put that in the big bar at the top of your explorer) and ~/Library/Application Support/itch for MacOS users.

2. locate and change the pt_BR for pt-BR and you should be good to go after quiting and closing the app.

I honestly hope that the devs can correct this thing, it shouldn't take long for it, a simple update would do.  Anyways, hope it helps!


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love how someone randomly on this app helped more than the developers of this app