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redonihunter1 year ago
I couldn't open the applications at all

What an elaborate description. What do you mean, you could not open the apps? Literally. What does this mean?

Is there an error message? What do you mean with installing?! 99.9% of all renpy games are unzip and run, there is no "installing". Are you using the itch app? Do you use sandbox mode? What does your taskmanager say about the app status? Is it running, failing silently, hogging ressources, not reacting, and so on. Do you have error files in the game folders. Were the files quarantined by your system.

Also, you are on windows, how do you know your system did not change? For one, there is malware on itch. A lot. Just yesterday I saw things that were sitting around as a time bomb since last year. And then there is windows updates, and those can include drivers.

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MagicaRen1 year ago

By not open the apps, I mean that when I click on the application it does not open. No error message whatsoever too for some reason. When I said installing, I meant that even when I unzip and try to run the games it doesn't work. I don't use the itch app, nor do I use sandbox mode. Taskmanager doesn't register the app as active when I try to open it. No error files in the game folders (I checked rigorously) and they weren't quarantined by my system.

I actually went over to check if the game worked on other PC's and it did, and from the games files there's nothing that'd be considered a virus. And I haven't updated windows at all.

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redonihunter1 year ago

You do not need to update windows these days. It does so automatically. So might your graphics driver.

It should open and write a log.txt regardless. If it can't even do that, maybe it can't because of no write permission or because it does not find it's own folder.

Did you try the shift method? Press shift, hold shift, click right on the exe, select open, wait a bit, then release shift.

You can try starting the games by using the sdk of renpy. Or maybe the sdk would tell you, if anything is making problems on your system.

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