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A few troubleshooting ideas:

- If you haven't unzipped/extracted the game+other contents from the zip file, you'll need to do that. I'm realising now I didn't clarify that in install instructions and have added that accordingly.

- Make sure it's on an accessable part of your computer (so not in Program Files or something)

- Occasionally antiviruses may respond to ren'py games with false positives, so you might need to list the game as an exception.

If that doesn't help I'm not sure what the problem is. I've had one other person say that the latest Windows 10 update may have dislodged something but I don't have any proven advice to offer. Sorry! >_<

Ett orm4 years ago

First and second point aren't the issue. Third point doesn't seem to be the issue either, there are no logs about the game or any of its files in my antivirus.

FionaKaenbyou4 years ago

Hrm. What OS are you running? And can you post an image of the exact error message?

Ett orm4 years ago

Windows 10

"Could not execute C:\Users\(name)\Downloads\Gay jam 2\beneath-the-willows-win-linux\BeneathTheWillows-pc\lib\windows-i686\BeneathTheWillows.exe. Is it missing?"

FionaKaenbyou4 years ago

Alright, one last batch of ideas:

Move the folder so it's at C:\GameJam or something. It's possible renpy isn't reacting well to non-ASCII characters in your user name - if that's not a problem then ignore this.
Apparently antiviruses can still target programs like this even without leaving logs? It'll also do things like delete files without telling you. You'd have to redownload, whitelist it and maybe run the game as an administrator for good measure. (This nonsense is why I don't use antiviruses anymore - Windows Defender and some common sense have served me fine so far.)

Really hope one of those is enough to sort this out!

Ett orm4 years ago

It was my antivirus, kind of annoying how it didn't say anything about ever doing it.

FionaKaenbyou4 years ago

Yeah, they're a nuisance like that. :V

Glad you finally got the game running though! Here's hoping it was worth the effort. :P

FionaKaenbyou4 years ago

A couple of things I found from searching online:

If you're on Windows, check your windows c++ libraries are up to date. I think it's Microsoft C++ 2008 that Renpy uses.
If the file name/directory uses non-ASCII characters, ren'py may not be able to recognise it? I'm not sure how this one works but changing your system encoding might help.

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