I have been trying to play some of the games I downloaded off of the site with the desktop version of Quest, I use Quest 5.8, and everytime I try to play one of the games I keep getting this error message in a debug text document separate from the game: [0223/042059:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(207)] Running without renderer sandbox. I have never seen this before and never had to deal with this issue before.
I get that in my debug document, every time I make a game. I was told not to worry about it, that it has to do with making a game outside of the central quest base, that because of the way the engine is set up, it recognizes that certain unnecessary components of the central core game engine, which has a number of things that wouldn't fit into the downloaded engine without causing problems of one kind or another, but it happens to everyone (I think), and it doesn't affect game play ( unless the situation you are having is not the same). Someone else might have more detail on that, but I don't want anyone to have to worry about it.
I am not trying to make a game, I am trying to play a game I downloaded and it gives me that error and doesn't open the game or Quest itself. It has it pop up on the taskbar as if it is open but the window is non-existent
The debug error will be there whether you are trying to make a game or trying to play a game, either way. I don't know your computer. Sometimes it is the computer, in which case sometimes restarting the computer is enough. If that doesn't work, it still may be your computer. Another trick that might or might not work, you can try opening Quest first, choosing open an existing game, and finding the game file to open from there.
I have tried restarting my computer, uninstalling and reinstalling quest, opening quest on its own and I still get the same error and can't do anything with it.
As I understand it, that error always comes up. It's because of the way Quest uses Chromium.
If the game fails to load, I believe the most common reason is that it can't write to the folder where it keeps its temporary files. Quest tends to assume that it can write wherever it wants; so it's usually easier to run it as administrator.
Tried that as well, still opens in an invisible window that I can't interact with.
Ah… so it's not actually failing to load; the window is just outside the screen. That's a Windows bug, which I'm amazed managed to survive from win95 to 8.1 without a fix. (No idea if it continues beyond that… apparently there's some case where people might want to drag a window entirely off the edge of the screen, but I'm sure that it's a problem for most people who manage to do it by accident. Especially with applications like Quest which try to reopen in the same place they were last time)
My usual response when I encountered that was to press [Alt]+[Space] to open the window menu, press 'M' to select 'Move', and then tap all the arrow keys at random until the window appears on the screen (moving the mouse may interrupt this process).