No game starts

pascha99

Newbie
Aug 29, 2018
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Hey,


i got a new pc some times ago and at the moment after i download and unpack the games and want to start it, nothing happens ... so do you know if i need any basic software to start the games?

many thanks
 

eosar

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Aug 11, 2016
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Video driver, directx, Net Framework or Visual C++. One of them is usually the issue. Problem is some games want some specific versions like dx9/dx11, Visual C++ 2010 x86/x64, 2012 x86/x64/, 2015 x86/x64. Lots of stuff there - old for old, new for new.
Another thing is to avoid installing/unpacking the games in Program Files. Program Files is protected, less than Windows, but it will limit access to and from your games. The games need independence, preferably on another drive.
 
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Glorified_ignorance

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In most cases yes direct x, visual c is missing, make sure to get all the visual c packs from internet even earliest ones (2005-2019). And one advice from me: since you mentioned not clearly "unpack the games " what games? Be specific, if you try running some japanese games, you need japanese locale. Installed and runned by it. And dont forget to restart pc after any changes mentioned above and from me, good luck
 

polywog

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rpgmaker games may require installing the rtp packages


some games require .NET framework... there are several versions of .NET Framework


some games require Java Runtime Environment


Visual C++ Runtimes


Adobe Flash Player/ Adobe Shockwave Player


Silverlight


Python
 
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pascha99

Newbie
Aug 29, 2018
43
5
for example, when i started the game Dark Magic , the error log was saying :

Bootstrap to the start of init.init took 0.08s
Early init took 0.00s
Loader init took 0.25s
Loading error handling took 0.09s
Loading script took 1.90s
Loading save slot metadata. took 0.02s
Loading persistent took 0.00s
Importing _renpysteam: ImportError('No module named _renpysteam',)
Set script version to: (7, 2, 0)
Running init code took 0.67s
Loading analysis data took 0.05s
Analyze and compile ATL took 0.04s
Index archives took 0.00s
Dump and make backups. took 0.00s
Cleaning cache took 0.00s
Making clean stores took 0.00s
Initial gc. took 0.09s
DPI scale factor: 1.000000
Creating interface object took 0.03s
Cleaning stores took 0.00s
Init translation took 0.03s
Build styles took 0.01s
Load screen analysis took 0.00s
Analyze screens took 0.02s
Save screen analysis took 0.09s
Prepare screens took 0.08s
Save pyanalysis. took 0.00s
Save bytecode. took 0.00s
Running _start took 0.00s
Performance test:
Interfac

So i think something is missing