OpenRCT2 won't launch

[primuspilus]

Hello all,

I am new here. I grew up with RCT2 and when encountering OpenRCT2 I thought let's relive some memories.

However, my game will not launch!

- I have bought RCT2 from Steam

- My settings from windows displays the following: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor, so I've installed the following: 

OpenRCT2-0.4.13-windows-installer-x64.exe

When clicking on the OpenRCT2.exe file on my desktop. My mouse pointer gets the 'I'm working circle' and then... nothing. The circle disappears and I'm still looking at my dekstop. No CMD, no anything. 

I've been googling, but nothing seems to help.

- I have run the Steam installed RCT2, which opens. (I've never went beyond the start menu).

- I've read somewhere (can't find it now), that you'd need to use the RCT2 setup from the steam folder to install some missing files. And then run the file integrity check from steam. Done all that, same issue.

- Don't know if it's relevant, but OpenRCT2 installs in Program Files, but Steam is in Program Files (x86).

- I've tried the launcher, but that results in the same situation

[Gymnasiast]

Please go to the OpenRCT2 folder in Program Files and open the `openrct2.com` executable there. It should print some output to a CMD window. (If it disappears too quickly, you need to open a CMD window yourself and execute `openrct2.com` in there.)

[primuspilus]

Hello Gymnasiast,

Thanks for taking the time to reply!
I've opened the openrct.com file from the folder in Program Files and it indeed disappeared quickly. So, I opened CMD and executed the file from there. (It's been a while since i've used cmd in this way, but I've typed the following:

C:\Users\username>cd C:\Program Files\OpenRCT2

C:\Program Files\OpenRCT2>start openrct2.com

Running it from here opens another CMD windows, which again disappears too quickly. So I have no printout to show for it.

[Gymnasiast]

You need to leave out the "start" bit, i.e.

cd C:\Program Files\OpenRCT2
openrct2.com

[primuspilus]

That results in the CMD window thinking for a bit, and then returning the prompt line again.
No printout in between:

C:\Users\username>cd C:\Program Files\OpenRCT2

C:\Program Files\OpenRCT2>openrct2.com

C:\Program Files\OpenRCT2>