Repentogon doesn't work after succesful install

[Samada45]

downloaded updater from github, succesful installation, doesn't work. No in-game bottom right corner text that it works, A mod that uses repentogon doesn't work and i have giant red text saying it's not installed properly when i launch the game. Tried manually coyping files and installing same thing.

[epfly6]

And?

[namishere]

Please define not working; please check for presence of (and post if it exists) dsound.log, libzhl.log, and repentogon.log; these will all be in the root folder where repentogon should be installed

[Samada45]

edited first post, accidentally pressed enter with blank sheet. Dsound log

[Options]
CheckForUpdates = 1

[internal]
RanUpdater = 0

other 2 files are not present in my game dir

[namishere]

that's dsound.ini. can you verify how and where you installed repentogon?

[Samada45]

downloaded latest Repentogonupdater, dropped it in The Binding of Isaac Rebirth folder (located it through steam), ran it, it downloaded the rest of files, said that the installation was succesful but when i launch the game either from steam or through isaacng.exe i don't see anywhere that repentogon works and when i launch a fresh run i see big red text saying it's noy installed properly

[namishere]

you are potentially suffering from an issue where our dsound.dll hook does not work. while it's not in a release-ready state, a new launcher solution that we intend to switch to recently entered alpha state. you might try it and see if that works better https://github.com/TeamREPENTOGON/Launcher/releases/tag/v0.1.0-alpha

[namishere]

Sorry, latest version https://github.com/TeamREPENTOGON/Launcher/releases/tag/v0.1.1-alpha

[Samada45]

windows defender screams it's bad, i assume nothing to worry about?

[namishere]

I'm a little surprised that it's upset about the launcher even after being signed, (disregard, it's not actually signed) but it's a false positive

[Samada45]

when using launcher 2 errors, missing ucrtbased.dll and vcruntime140d.dll, Am i missing some frameworks or other essentials?
I'm on Win11
tried installing vsreddist but it says that i already have it installed

[jsgnextortex]

The launcher is actually not ready for the public yet, those dlls are debugging dlls that we need internally to properly traceback issues with it, they wont be needed when we poop it out....if you are truly having the issue where the game doesnt load dsound.dll at all then you'll need to wait until we release the launcher proper to use repentogon.

[namishere]

It's true that it isn't ready for public, but I personally think it's worth having extra eyes on it as necessary. The missing dlls are debug variants, I found an older gl issue on github where someone dumped specifically those ones https://github.com/WHTJEON/narrowvine/issues/2

[phrogge]

I don't think the alpha version of the launcher solves the problem for me. I'm one of those unlucky players whose PC doesn't load dsound.dll and simply starts the game without RGON (no errors or anything). The issue is that the same happens with the launcher, even though I have selected the correct isaac-ng.exe and changed the launch mode to "Repentogon".

The launcher does give me these warnings:
[WARN] Installation of Repentogon contains both the ZHL loader and dsound.dll. For safety, the launcher will ignore the ZHL loader.
[WARN] Found a valid legacy installation of Repentogon (dsound.dll found)
[WARN] Disabling Repentogon configuration options due to legacy installation

I tried deleting dsound.dll in hopes that it would make the launcher use the loader, but when I did, it couldn't find Repentogon at all. Is there anything else I can do?

[Sylmir]

In the launcher, click "Advanced Options" and upgrade to unstable Repentogon, instead of stable.

Right now what is happening is that the launcher downloads a dsound.dll based Repentogon because it downloads stable releases by default. This means your libzhl.dll and zhlRepentogon.dll are not properly setup to work with the launcher. Upgrading to an unstable Repentogon release should fix the issue.

If you can try this and come back to us, that would be very appreciated as it would be the first instance of someone with a non working dsound based installation using the launcher.

If it still doesn't work, please send us your launcher.log file