Setting up Simutrans (and Experimental)

[pavulon]

A few minutes ago I downloaded Simutrans-Experimental 7.1.  with pak 128 (I think).  When I try to run it, I get the following error messages.

Window #1 (title:  FATAL ERROR)
FATAL ERROR: simmain::main()
Unable to load any language files
***PLEASE INSTALL PROPER BASE FILES***

Window #2 (title: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Program: C:\Prog...

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way.  Please contact the application's support team for more information.

I am running MS XP Pro Service Pack 3.

The premise of the game looks very interesting.  I like what I have read about the improvements of Simutrans-std.  I hope to get to play this game soon.

thanks for the help.

Jim



I think I might have figured out what my problem is.

I didn't realize that the link that I clicked was not a complete game setup.  Now that I know this, I will try another way of getting the game to work.

[jamespetts]

Yes, indeed - the Simutrans-Experimental file released is just the executable. There is a complete package version available (see here for details), but that contains an out of date version of Simutrans-Experimental. You could download and install that, then update (1) Simutrans-Experimental; and (2) Pak128.Britain-Ex (or just install Pak128 if you'd rather use that).

I have moved this topic to "Help requests" because the issue is not specific to Simutrans-Experimental, but applies to all binary-only downloads of Simutrans.

Welcome, however, to the Simutrans community - thank you for trying Simutrans-Experimental, and may you have much fun with Simutrans in the future!

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