How to play Alpha 8.8 or others

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I recently decided to play the old alphas, I remember playing them about 10 years ago, in the end I updated everything, downloaded 8.8 to this alpha, and as a result, when I try to enter the game, a console comes out with red inscriptions that indicate some errors, I tried downloading other alphas, nothing worked, I tried to do something with the files, deleted saves, transferred folders with files, deleted the game completely and downloaded only this alpha without updating, I did everything I could and it's the same output everywhere, the same console with red labels, I don't have any mods or anything, I just want to play the 8.8 alpha :(

[pApA^LeGBa]

DId you get rid of the Folder in AppData?

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Originally posted by pApA^LeGBa:

DId you get rid of the Folder in AppData?

What specific folder are you talking about?

[God Bless The Dead]

Originally posted by Dumb Bastard:

Originally posted by pApA^LeGBa:

DId you get rid of the Folder in AppData?

What specific folder are you talking about?

To play the older versions you have to start the game directly from the 7 days to die .exe where steam installs the game as the launcher doesn't work for the older versions.

Steam>steamapps>common>7 days to die then select the 7 days to die.exe (not the launcher one)

[Работяга]

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

Originally posted by Dumb Bastard:

What specific folder are you talking about?

To play the older versions you have to start the game directly from the 7 days to die .exe where steam installs the game as the launcher doesn't work for the older versions.

Steam>steamapps>common>7 days to die then select the 7 days to die.exe (not the launcher one)

Okay, I'll try this now

[Работяга]

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

Originally posted by Dumb Bastard:

What specific folder are you talking about?

To play the older versions you have to start the game directly from the 7 days to die .exe where steam installs the game as the launcher doesn't work for the older versions.

Steam>steamapps>common>7 days to die then select the 7 days to die.exe (not the launcher one)

WAIT, I tried this method, it doesn’t work either, and if you don’t understand, I meant that the game itself opens, but when creating a new world and launching it, the console pops up with an error

[God Bless The Dead]

Originally posted by Dumb Bastard:

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

To play the older versions you have to start the game directly from the 7 days to die .exe where steam installs the game as the launcher doesn't work for the older versions.

Steam>steamapps>common>7 days to die then select the 7 days to die.exe (not the launcher one)

WAIT, I tried this method, it doesn’t work either, and if you don’t understand, I meant that the game itself opens, but when creating a new world and launching it, the console pops up with an error

Have you tried pressing esc? because you can get past them errors when a map is loading and play fine, I've had them errors many times.

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Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

Originally posted by Dumb Bastard:

WAIT, I tried this method, it doesn’t work either, and if you don’t understand, I meant that the game itself opens, but when creating a new world and launching it, the console pops up with an error

Have you tried pressing esc? because you can get past them errors when a map is loading and play fine, I've had them errors many times.

Now I'll update the version and try everything as you said

[Работяга]

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

Originally posted by Dumb Bastard:

WAIT, I tried this method, it doesn’t work either, and if you don’t understand, I meant that the game itself opens, but when creating a new world and launching it, the console pops up with an error

Have you tried pressing esc? because you can get past them errors when a map is loading and play fine, I've had them errors many times.

Nothing happens, I pressed esc and the console just went away and that’s it

[God Bless The Dead]

Originally posted by Dumb Bastard:

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

Have you tried pressing esc? because you can get past them errors when a map is loading and play fine, I've had them errors many times.

Nothing happens, I pressed esc and the console just went away and that’s it

You should be able to then select start game or whatever it says, to just normally enter the map, once the console error command is out of the way.

Also give it a min or two for the new map to load, so the enter game/start game pops up.

[Работяга]

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

Originally posted by Dumb Bastard:

Nothing happens, I pressed esc and the console just went away and that’s it

You should be able to then select start game of whatever it says, to just normally enter the map, once the console error command is out of the way.

This console comes out during LOADING, that is, on the loading screen where there is nothing lol

[God Bless The Dead]

Originally posted by Dumb Bastard:

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

You should be able to then select start game of whatever it says, to just normally enter the map, once the console error command is out of the way.

This console comes out during LOADING, that is, on the loading screen where there is nothing lol

You have already said this and I told you what to do, if you can't do it, well good luck, at least you're living up to your name 😂

[CatPerson]

When you click the game exe, are you launching as Admin?

Semi-unrelated: I remember I stopped trying to replay A10 because I'd get errors like that trying to run them. The old versions did character profiles differently I think and (in my case) if you have multiple installs/versions of the game (not just the single Steam install) it didn't like flipping back and forth, even running from the .exe vs. steam.

But if you tried a seriously clean install of the old version (no old folder/file remaining so no conflicts) and that didn't work, no idea, outside of a registry entry causing an issue perhaps.

[Работяга]

Originally posted by CatPerson:

When you click the game exe, are you launching as Admin?

Semi-unrelated: I remember I stopped trying to replay A10 because I'd get errors like that trying to run them. The old versions did character profiles differently I think and (in my case) if you have multiple installs/versions of the game (not just the single Steam install) it didn't like flipping back and forth, even running from the .exe vs. steam.

But if you tried a seriously clean install of the old version (no old folder/file remaining so no conflicts) and that didn't work, no idea, outside of a registry entry causing an issue perhaps.

https://ru.paste.pics/4cd4c4d933b453dd650de49201d3701a

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Originally posted by CatPerson:

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But if you tried a seriously clean install of the old version (no old folder/file remaining so no conflicts) and that didn't work, no idea, outside of a registry entry causing an issue perhaps.

Registry entries do cause problems. You should clear out the data when switching versions.

Hit the Play button, open the Launcher, choose the Tools tab and then Clean Game Data.