Ren'Py Can't run any Ren'py applications

[nqgch]

Hello,
I have been unable to open any Ren'py applications(mostly games). Every time I start up a ren'py game (eg. Ren'py.exe) in its main directory , it gives me this error:


Could not execute
game directory\lib\windows-i686\Ren'py.exe. Is it missing?


This is the error I get for the case of when I try to open the Ren'py game launcher. I get the same error for every other game, it's just that the executable name changes for each game. When I look in the windows-i686 directory where it says the executable could be missing, I find it there. It doesn't do anything when I open it.

I'm not an experienced user, so i don't know what is the problem or how to fix it. Does anybody have any ideas about this? any kind of help is appreciated.

ps: game directory: no matter where i save the game i get the error above.
my security software and window don't block Ren'py.

Thank you!

 

[TCMS]

My guess is your username has some weird characters. Try to move your games to C:\Games\ and try from there.

 

[Papa Ernie]

Hello,
I have been unable to open any Ren'py applications(mostly games). Every time I start up a ren'py game (eg. Ren'py.exe) in its main directory , it gives me this error:


Could not execute
game directory\lib\windows-i686\Ren'py.exe. Is it missing?


This is the error I get for the case of when I try to open the Ren'py game launcher. I get the same error for every other game, it's just that the executable name changes for each game. When I look in the windows-i686 directory where it says the executable could be missing, I find it there. It doesn't do anything when I open it.

I'm not an experienced user, so i don't know what is the problem or how to fix it. Does anybody have any ideas about this? any kind of help is appreciated.

ps: game directory: no matter where i save the game i get the error above.
my security software and window don't block Ren'py.

Thank you!

Sounds like your AV is blocking the program.
1) Add the program to your AV's whitelist.
2) Right click on the program and choose "Run as Administrator".

 

[nqgch]

My guess is your username has some weird characters. Try to move your games to C:\Games\ and try from there.

Thank you for your response, i am thinking there is maybe a problem with my system's encoding, and it can't represent the characters in my username. I am not sure.

 

[nqgch]

Sounds like your AV is blocking the program.
1) Add the program to your AV's whitelist.
2) Right click on the program and choose "Run as Administrator".

Thank you for your response, as i mentioned in my question. Neither my Antivirus nor Window block the program on my computer.

 

[Papa Ernie]

Thank you for your response, as i mentioned in my question. Neither my Antivirus nor Window block the program on my computer.

Often, AV software doen't tell you when it blocks programs. Just add the Ren'py .exe to your whitelist and try it out. It can't hurt.

 

[Nightcrawler]

Often, AV software doen't tell you when it blocks programs. Just add the Ren'py .exe to your whitelist and try it out. It can't hurt.

+1

 

[ghulsk]

just met the same problem. already deactivated antivirus but it didn't help. it is looking for the exe in the folders lib\windows-i686 but those folders do not exist. did someone find a solution for this?

 

[daheroxx]

One way to execute them is from the same compressed file without decompressing running the game so solve that problem with the ren'py

 

[Darcy Keyron]

im also having same problem and i didnt even install av yet,if someone finds any solution pls tell me

 

[Winterfire]

If your computer's username contains Cyrillic, Kanji or any other symbol outside of English alphabet try to move the game folder in C:/ and run it from there... So if the game was called "Bob", the final directory would be C: / Bob.

 

[Trumpisdaddy]

I had the same problems back in the day when I was just playing Akabur games. I fixed it somehow and can't remember how I did it then. Just facing the same problem now. I'll see if I can find a solution. I guess you just need a new user account and probably will fix a lot of it

 

[Trumpisdaddy]

Just took the extractable file out of that folder and put it in a new folder.. and it works

 

[Helmut Schreyer]

Hello,
I have been unable to open any Ren'py applications(mostly games). Every time I start up a ren'py game (eg. Ren'py.exe) in its main directory , it gives me this error:


Could not execute
game directory\lib\windows-i686\Ren'py.exe. Is it missing?


This is the error I get for the case of when I try to open the Ren'py game launcher. I get the same error for every other game, it's just that the executable name changes for each game. When I look in the windows-i686 directory where it says the executable could be missing, I find it there. It doesn't do anything when I open it.

I'm not an experienced user, so i don't know what is the problem or how to fix it. Does anybody have any ideas about this? any kind of help is appreciated.

ps: game directory: no matter where i save the game i get the error above.
my security software and window don't block Ren'py.

Thank you!

apology for bad english,i tried to write without the google translator,
but I couldn't and I thought that would be better to use google translator

I was having the same problem when I changed my windows from 7 to 8 and when I went back to 7 this same problem started to appear, and to solve I just changed my windows to windows 7 ultimate and fix it

 

[Rico83]

It worked

- Deactivate the virus program and leave it deactivated
- Unpack Dual_Family-098ce-pc
- and start (it takes a few seconds until it starts)


Sorry for my poor English, unfortunately I only wrote it with Google Translate.