Been having trouble about opening games for the past 1month and a half. I extract and try to run but all it does is have the cursor have a loading icon for like 2 seconds and stop, nothing opens, nothing changes. Tried to check log.txt and it never updated, thought it was a com surrogate thing because every time I open it appears as well, thought it was a downloading error so I re-downloaded/extracted the games multiple times in different folder placements and still didn't work. tried /sfc scannow didn't work, tried so many things an d it still wont work. Genuinely contemplating resetting windows as a whole just to open these games but that's going too far. Just if you have the same issues help.
games just don't open
- Thread starter Deluluquan
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It might be a renpy issue and if you tell me to try to open it and hold shift I tried and that wont work.
- Aug 3, 2017
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Are they Japanese games or Western games? What you are describing sounds a lot like what happens when you launch some Japanese games without using a local emu. Also are you running it on an admin account?
Have you tried going into appdata - renpy - find game name and deleting the persistent file for one of them then tried to launch it again?
If you could also give a few more details such as OS etc. that will help a lot.
- Its Both western and Japanese games.
- My OS is Windows 11 Pro on the 23H2 version.
- I am also running them on a admin account.
- I haven't tried going into appdata Ill do it soon.
If the appdata thing doesn't work, I found two things that might with a google search. Worth a shot.
Thanks for the help, sadly I am a pure AMD user.
Do you have afterburner or rivatuner going? If so, you could try turning them off.
Well that's 0 for 2 out of me.
I found nothing else. Sorry I can't help my man.No problem, hopefully someone else had the same problem and fixed it and coincidentally roaming these same forums.Well that's 0 for 2 out of me.
It works however if I want to play the game I would need to always use the command prompt but Im happy it just works.
- Jun 10, 2017
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Okay, so, if you have an anti-virus, there high chance that it's the culprit.
For some reasons he flag the windows version of the Python interpreter as being corrupted. When it can't launch it, Ren'Py fallback to the DOS version, what can only open the game if called from the console.
How to do it depend on you anti-virus, so you'll have to ask google about this, but you've to look at its recent activity, find "pythonw.exe" in the list, and tell your anti-virus that the file is in fact perfectly safe. This should solve the issue.