Exception on one computer, not on two others

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Exception on one computer, not on two others

#1 Post by ypressgames »

My programmer sent me the first version of our game, but it won't run on my computer, which is Windows 10 x64. If I click the application it gives an hourglass (the swirl thing) symbol for a few seconds and then doesn't launch. When I try to launch it from the Ren'Py software I get this message:

exception: While running game code:
File "game/screens.rpy", line 122, in <module> config.character_id_prefixes.append('namebox')
Exception: config.character_id_prefixes is not a known configuration variable.

This exception doesn't happen on my programmers two computers. Just on mine. The zip file was uploaded to my Dropbox for me to access it.

We are new to Ren'Py. My programmer just switched from Unity to this software yesterday, and this is her first attempt at using it. We aren't as familiar with the software as most people here. If you have any suggestions I would appreciate if they're stuff that beginners will understand.
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Re: Exception on one computer, not on two others

#2 Post by PyTom »

It sounds like you're using different versions of Ren'Py. config.character_id_prefixes was added recently. (In 6.99.13, I think.), so if you're still running an older version of Ren'Py, you won't have it and you'll get a crash like that.
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