Installation directory?

[InfinityBladeSX]

Open up game, game says: Unable to find RCT2 installation directory. Please select directory where you installed RCT2!

[X7123M3-256]

You need to edit config.ini and change game_path to the location where RCT2 is installed (if you use the launcher, I think you can set the game path there instead). The directory you select should contain the rct2.exe executable, and the subdirectories "Data" containing the files g1.dat and several files of the form css<number>.dat, and "ObjData" containing a large number of .DAT files. It is not the directory where you installed OpenRCT2 (some people seem to have got those mixed up). It is also not the location of the game disk or installer.

The path to this directory depends on where you got the game from - normally, it would go somewhere in C:/Program Files, but if it's installed in the default location OpenRCT2 will normally find it automatically, so this probably means you've installed the game somewhere else (on another drive, perhaps?). If you can't find it, search your computer for rct2.exe.

Edited July 23, 2016 by X7123M3-256

[Broxzier]

On Windows it even opens a window where you can browse to the folder I believe, no need to edit the config file manually. If you do it manually, remember to escape backslashes, which makes your path looks like "C:\\Path\\To\\RCT2"

[InfinityBladeSX]

@Broxzier so what do I need to do?

[InfinityBladeSX]

@X7123M3-256 I cant seem to find the rct2.exe file, and my pc is an ASUS ZenBook UX305-LA so I only have one drive

 

Edited July 28, 2016 by InfinityBladeSX

[X7123M3-256]

Are you sure the game is actually installed? Some people have tried to point OpenRCT2 at the installer or the disk mount point- OpenRCT2 can't make use of those files directly as they are in compressd format, you need to actually run the installer.

For me, the game was located at C:/Program Files/Infogrames/RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. This was the disk version, if you got the game online it might be installed somewhere else. If you have a shortcut for RCT2 somewhere on your desktop, you should be able to right click it and see where it points to. If all else fails you could try reinstalling RCT2 and making a note of where it's installing files to.