Windows 8.1 has trouble with old renpy (6.9.3) games
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:25 pm
So, I admit it, I'm afraid of change, and I still develop on Ren'Py 6.9.3 before the new scripting language and I don't know how to update my old products.
Something seems to have happened to Windows 8.1 in the past few weeks, because now several customers have told me their products (that run fine on Windows 7, which I know because I use Windows 7 currently), won't run at all. They try to run, then just sit there. I had one customer report that compatibility settings didn't help, but I try not to burden customers with figuring out their own problems.
In the past, with similar problems, I've had customers download the latest version of Ren'Py, stick my product folder in there, and run it from the Launcher. But apparently new Ren'Py doesn't want to run stuff from that far back (a traceback file said it was looking for ATL which of course was not to be found).
So... what can I tell these customers, to get their products running now?
And... what do I do to get my products out of the past and into the future? (I guess the answer to that is learn the latest Ren'Py version, reprogram my old products, and create a patch.)
Something seems to have happened to Windows 8.1 in the past few weeks, because now several customers have told me their products (that run fine on Windows 7, which I know because I use Windows 7 currently), won't run at all. They try to run, then just sit there. I had one customer report that compatibility settings didn't help, but I try not to burden customers with figuring out their own problems.
In the past, with similar problems, I've had customers download the latest version of Ren'Py, stick my product folder in there, and run it from the Launcher. But apparently new Ren'Py doesn't want to run stuff from that far back (a traceback file said it was looking for ATL which of course was not to be found).
So... what can I tell these customers, to get their products running now?
And... what do I do to get my products out of the past and into the future? (I guess the answer to that is learn the latest Ren'Py version, reprogram my old products, and create a patch.)