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[majorfreak]

starsector_install-0.8.1a-RC8.exe (for windows)

"This app can't run on your PC"
"To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher."

i'm a bit stunned this isn't a sticky somewhere...are there just no new customers anymore, Alex? i highly doubt that. Maybe it's just me, but i doubt that.

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[Alex]

I strongly suspect it's just you - well, probably not *just* you, but you know what I mean. Or it could be an issue with a recent windows 10 update. Could you try running the game using the bat file to see what happens? The error message windows is giving you there is exceedingly uninformative.

Edit: at what point in the process do you get the error message?

Also: do you have video drivers installed at all? Asking since it's a fresh OS install, so that seems like a possibility, and that might explain that sort of error message.

[Alex]

Doing a bit of googling, looks like there are various possible causes of this.

Things to try:
1) Running the game as administrator
2) Disabling SmartScreen, whatever that is
3) Making a copy of the .exe with a different name
4) And looks like some other things, but I didn't dig into it too deeply. This appears to be a fairly common issue with windows 10 and games in general.

Which frankly I'm not surprised, but that's another topic.

[majorfreak]

Doing a bit of googling, looks like there are various possible causes of this.

Things to try:
1) Running the game as administrator
2) Disabling SmartScreen, whatever that is
3) Making a copy of the .exe with a different name
4) And looks like some other things, but I didn't dig into it too deeply. This appears to be a fairly common issue with windows 10 and games in general.

Which frankly I'm not surprised, but that's another topic.

1) sadly, nope. same routine message
2) smartscreen? hmmm...i paid my local comp shop to install windows 10 (they convinced me windows 7 was only for tinfoil hattery) on a new SSD ...pretty sure they installed the latest nvidea driver. lemmie root around and see about this "smartscreen"
oh weird, i'm used to "microsoft security essentials"...*disables all settings for smartscreen*
nope. same error message.
3) copying and renaming. nope.
4) well, honestly, i'm a bit surprised new customers aren't commenting about this. Since i can't even open the installation program you'd THINK folks would make some sort of fuss...and it's been quite a long time since Bill Gates puked out this pile of garbage

EDIT: screech! wtf? it's zero bytes? eh? hmmm...it downloaded correctly the first time into my downloads folder. I wonder what i did to make it falsely appear on my desktop with only 0 bytes? so bizarre.
ah well, thanks for the help regardless.

[Alex]

Huh, alright. Well, glad you got it sorted, regardless!

(Re: windows 10, my main problem with it is not being able to 100% disable updates. I'm very much not cool with not knowing when MS randomly decrees that I'll lose a day of productivity due to an update breaking random stuff. Which happens all the time. As far as I'm concerned, that's crossing a line, and you don't own the computer anymore, if the OS vendor can do that to you. But, eh, not the place for a rant. Sorry

[majorfreak]

But, eh, not the place for a rant. Sorry

no worries! that's what following your twitter is for! lol