You are correct, there is no "installing" neccessary with LR2. I was just saying that as a generality.
1) If launching as admin isnt working ( downloads folder is
usually fine for write access );
2) and you've redownloaded and unpacked it again to verify it isnt file corruption;
3) and you don't have issues with other renpy games (ruling out any missing prereq system files);
then without a log to give more of an idea where the point-of-failure is, the only other suggest I have is trying launching the game while holding the shift key while it launches. This
should bring up a buried "default" renpy options menu (after the preloader "Please Wait" image). It halts the loading process right before renpy initializes the renderer. Normally Renpy defaults to OpenGL 2.0 for its render engine, but in rare cases of graphics card / driver combinations, something gets borked in the OpenGL 2.0 render support. You can try forcing DirectX or Software renderer and see if that helps at all. Select one of those options, quit, and try relaunching again normally.
Last person that had renderer issues with LR2 had a log showing a driver failure during render init, but without a log this is a shot in the dark.
Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. Even if the renderer was the point-of-failure, there'd still be log.txt for renpy doing all its initialization, so for there to be
NO log is....unusual. Renpy is usually pretty good at just....working. Out-of-the-box. For everyone.
I guess a last ditch idea would be to download the renpy SDK (
You must be registered to see the links
) and tossing the unpacked game directory into there (whole directory, as its own folder within the SDK directory) , and launching it as a project. But that's a Hail Mary play, highly unlikely (like 0.00.......01%) that it would make a difference.
Side tangent: You can use the Renpy SDK to build your own distributions of games. Want a Mac Version? Android? iOS? Build your own!
