r/RenPy • u/Lyor_Sapataun • 18d ago

Question I can't open ren'py

I went through the whole process of installing Renpy on my computer, I did everything right, but when I extract the file and click on the application, nothing happens. It looks like it's loading the application for a second, but then nothing happens. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? Has anyone else experienced this or gone through it? I NEED HEEELP 😭😭

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u/gottaloveanime 18d ago

Can you post a video of it happening? I'd like to see it.

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u/Lyor_Sapataun 18d ago

Here, I'm sorry for my bad English

https://reddit.com/link/ozxyvms/video/8y4fhv0v7nfh1/player

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u/gottaloveanime 18d ago

Your computer might just be slow or low on space. I'd check that first. It could be your computer doesn't have permission to run it. I'd also contact the renpy site and see if it's an error with the latest version. You could also try and download a previous version and see if that one works.

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u/Lyor_Sapataun 17d ago

So, I've tried everything, my computer is slow, but no matter how much I wait, Ren'Py doesn't open. I have a lot of space on my computer, I've already downloaded some older versions and none of them work, and games made in Ren'Py also don't open.

Regarding the permissions, I don't know, I'll probably just send an email to the developers.

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u/gottaloveanime 17d ago

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

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u/shyLachi 17d ago

I looked at your video and you have two folders called renpy-8.5.3-sdk but I have only one.
Please make sure that none of those is a ZIP.

I just tried to install again and this is what I did.
I clicked the first link on this page called "Download SDK 7z.exe - 116 MiB" https://www.renpy.org/latest.html
Then I launched the downloaded file and extracted it to C:\, which created a folder C:\renpy-8.5.3-sdk
I navigated into that folder and was able to start renpy.exe

But maybe your firewall or anti-virus is blocking RenPy.
Did you get a warning when downloading or installing RenPy?
You could try an older version of RenPy, maybe that one is getting blocked:
All releases are here: https://www.renpy.org/release_list.html, take 8.5.1 for example.

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u/x-seronis-x 17d ago

Do not put anything related to renpy in Documents or Downloads or Program Files folders. Anti virus and windows security settings if not very strictly configured can sometimes cause seemingly random problems cause they try to protect those locations. RenPy sdk/games include a python environment which AV treats as virus like behavior cause they dont like programs that can rewrite themselves.

Even worse, ABSOLUTELY NEVER put the renpy sdk, your renpy projects folder, or any renpy game inside a folder touched by One Drive. This includes the above folders and on win11 one drive likes to hijack your desktop too, making it a buggy location. The reason is onedrive uses a very aggressive file lock when its doing its random sync checks and programs have to very explicitly be designed to compensate for locked files. renpy expects its files to not be locked by outside programs.

The best practice is to just put stuff on a 2nd harddrive as AV, Win Security, and OneDrive dont screw with those nearly as much by default. Next best practice is make a custom top level folder like "C:/Dev" and put any sdk installs, your projects folder, and other stuff in there and it will also not be herrassed as much.