[Bug] EXE file does nothing when clicked on Windows 10

[TinyKing001]

Description:
When attempting to run the program.exe file on Windows 10, nothing happens. The executable does not launch, and there is no error message or visible activity in Task Manager.

[he2she]

The app v0.8.6 worked in my Windows 11 environment. When the app starts, a folder named "flowsurface" should be created in C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming. Does this folder exist?

[he2she]

If cargo and git are installed, you can run the application using the following commands. In case of a crash, this should provide some diagnostic information.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/flowsurface-rs/flowsurface

cd flowsurface

# Build and run
cargo run

[akenshaw]

When the app starts, a folder named "flowsurface" should be created in C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming

As mentioned above there should be a log file generated.

My best guess is that you're on incompatible graphics hardware. It should be a modern GPU supporting DirectX, OpenGL, Vulkan etc... Can you confirm if this is not the case?

The other possible reason could be with your policy restrictions/User Account Control (UAC) that Windows just outright blocks the executable without a warning

[pnxnormal]

.exe file does nothing when clicked on Window 11 too, when the app starts, the folder in C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming exists but still nothing happen

[pnxnormal]

Hey! I ran into a weird issue where the app just wouldn't start on my Windows 11 machine. No error message, no window, nothing - it just silently failed.

After some digging with RUST_BACKTRACE=full, I found out it was panicking here:

thread 'main' panicked at 'src\modal\audio.rs:47:18:
Failed to create sound cache: "Failed to open audio output: NoDevice"
Turns out the app requires an audio device to be connected to even start up. Once I plugged in my headphones, everything worked fine.

What happened:
Had no speakers/headphones connected
Ran flowsurface.exe
App just exits immediately with no feedback

What I expected:
Either the app starts without audio, or at least shows me an error message saying "hey, you need audio"

My setup:
Windows 11
RTX 3060
Built from latest main branch

[akenshaw]

Hey! I ran into a weird issue where the app just wouldn't start on my Windows 11 machine. No error message, no window, nothing - it just silently failed.
After some digging with RUST_BACKTRACE=full, I found out it was panicking here:
...

Thanks for reporting this @pnxnormal 👍

Either the app starts without audio, or at least shows me an error message saying "hey, you need audio"

Yea you're absolutely right. It should probably even do both, reporting the issue and just working fine without audio. It seems like i've overlooked audio might cause this. I will look into it.

Edit: e8209ff should be fixing this