I saw your youtube video and was incredibly impressed! I really want to play this, however, this is my first time downloading something from itch.io, so I don't exactly know what to do. I extracted the .exe file in the ZIP folder, then pressed on the extracted application, however, every time I start the game, it says a fatal error has occurred, and it crashes. How can I overcome this and play the game? My laptop is a new Windows Surface Pro running windows 11 if that has anything to do with it.
Sorry for the late reply, to answer your question: Yes, I extracted the full folder with everything, then double clicked the .exe with the unreal engine logo. After that, the game opens, but it is extremely choppy/laggy, and then a message appears which reads "Fatal Error" and the whole thing then closes
The initial choppiness/lag is likely due to the shaders compiling - there's no 'load screen' to hide this so it will lag for a few seconds and then settle back down again.
So it sounds like it's crashing during this process. The only thing I can think of is that it's to do with the Windows Surface Pro. I was doing some quick reading and it seems the chip on the Surface Pro is different to your usual pc spec... so maybe it's an issue there. Either in terms of processing power to get past the shader compilation (which is often CPU intensive), or in terms of compatibility.
I am sorry your having issues with launching the game! It doesn't sound like something I can launch a patch for to fix unfortunately though.