message: "openrct.exe - Entry Point Not Found" (OPENRCT2 NOT WORKING)

[joshmarsilio]

I had been without internet access for weeks before today and the openrct2 version i was using during that time worked well enough... and i could play(though it did freeze once in a while before loading). But now, today after my launcher has installed the latest "develop" version... i cannot open openrct2 at all, i get this message: openrct2.exe - Entry Point Not Found (x) The procedure entry point K32GetModuleFileNameExW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll after pressing the "play" button from the launcher.

I am completely unable to open the game, any help???

[Broxzier]

Sounds like you're running a Windows OS that is no longer supported by Microsoft. I'm surprised you were able to run previous versions at all. Most off all I suggest upgrading your OS. If for some reason you really don't want to do that, try downloading an older version of the game that you know worked before, and don't update it (so don't use the launcher). Do you remember which version you were running first?

[joshmarsilio]

i dont remember which version i was running that worked but it was from anywhere between 4 and 16 weeks ago.

[Broxzier]

If it worked 4 weeks ago, you can just select the stable build in the launcher. Otherwise you could go through the history of AppVeyor manually to find a build from 4+ weeks ago: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/IntelOrca/openrct2-ject9/history

Look for commits saying "Merging Localization into develop", which are basically nightly builds. Any other builds may be from pull requests that still had to be merged at that point, and may miss some functionality. Then select your platform (x86 or x64), go to artifacts on the right, and download the zip. Extract the contents into your Docuements/OpenRCT2 folder, and you should be able to play by opening OpenRCT2/bin/openrct2.com.

[joshmarsilio]

I am not able to figure this out...   I went to: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/IntelOrca/openrct2-ject9/build/0.1.2.11657/job/q0nt4nbfuvh9ohln/artifactsi

and saw :

artifacts\openrct2-installer-release-win32-5d5c64a.exe

File

5 MB

OpenRCT2-installer

artifacts\openrct2-portable-release-win32-5d5c64a.zip

Zip archive

6 MB

OpenRCT2-portable

artifacts\openrct2-symbols-release-win32-5d5c64a.zip

Zip archive

13 MB

OpenRCT2 debug symbols

-Which one do i download? -I downloaded all three, and extracted "OpenRCT2-0.1.1-linux-i686.tar.gz"  to Docuements/OpenRCT2, and i am still getting the same error..  did you actually mean"OpenRCT2/bin/openrct2.com." or ".exe"  ????

Anyway this doesn't seem to be working. I reported my issue at github so maybe i'll wait to see if future updates don't have this error.

The developers at github are supposed to be addressing the problem, but they have not fixed it yet.

Oh and also, at github, they suggested i upgrade to "linux" but i don't trust that linux will be familiar to me and prefer not to install it.

Edited November 30, 2017 by joshmarsilio

[Gymnasiast]

As we already said on Github, it was caused by Discord integration. Janisozaur actually sent in a patch to allow for Vista support, which has been merged, but we need to update our dependencies. After that, the game should work on Vista again.

But really, you shouldn't expect programs to support Windows Vista anymore. Microsoft stopped supporting it and it was never popular anyway.

[joshmarsilio]

On 11/30/2017 at 17:33, Gymnasiast said:

"but we need to update our dependencies after that the game should work on vista again."

do you have an idea of how long this is going to take?

Edited December 2, 2017 by joshmarsilio

[Broxzier]

I suggest going to the dev chat or github issue that you've created to ask for an estimation, that's where most developers will look.