and where do i put this? the game will not launch at all, you hit enter and nothing even shows in task manager. it's not the only game that does this btw, when i tried them on win7 i found this static image that pops up first as it launches the game.
so i'm assuming that has something to do with it since before they added that, it worked fine.
also nothing wrong with xp!
Once the image is displayed, Ren'Py has already done quite a number of things, so I would bet it is failing before.
(You can pass this flag with environment.txt file or by passing it via commandline, but as it seems something is clearly broken, you might want to report to Ren'Py upstream instead)
The "easiest" way if you want some serious support, would be trying to launch it via
cmd
(the commandline for those more familiar with it), and seeing the message it'll probably give there.
Another solution would be downloading
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and trying to run the game from there. Probably the SDK will fail to launch (and even if it launches, "The Question" game which ships in along Ren'Py will fail as well). Then you'll be able to be able to obtain support from PyTom
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as Ren'Py supports Windows XP officially.
Do note that you need video drivers up to date. Most problems which Windows XP gets are for outdated drivers.
For reference, to use Ren'Py games released
in 2021 and forwards you will be needing, according to PyTom:
PyTom said:
This release also raises the minimum requirements to run a Ren'Py game. It is now required that a user's computer have OpenGL 2, DirectX 9, OpenGL ES 2, or WebGL to run Ren'Py. The model-based renderer requires OpenGL ES 3 or WebGL 2.
PS. If you never submitted a bug report before, consider reading
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. It is kinda like the universal manual on how to make useful bug reports, it has a TL;DR on the bottom as well.