Can anyone help me?

[the moon reversed]

Hi and thank you for taking your time to read this. But recently I was going to play a game that I've been playing for a few years but today when I opened the game a pop-up said that a file couldn't be found. I didn't change any of the files and everything should have been the same as any other time Iv'e opened the game. I tried reinstalling the game but it still wasn't working. I don't know how to fix this without deleting all files from the game including saves and progress and was wondering if anyone knew? Thank you so much if you can help at all!

[ReBoot]

What game? The pop-up certainly didn't came Form Steam. Did it literally say "can't be found"?
And what file?
Try to verify the local game content.

[Supafly]

For anyone to help you need to give specifics. From what you wrote you could be talking about 1 of 10,000+ games and 1 of 1,000,000,000+ files

What game?
What File is missing?

[the moon reversed]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

What game? The pop-up certainly didn't came Form Steam. Did it literally say "can't be found"?
And what file?
Try to verify the local game content.

The game is ddlc and the pop-up im 99% sure it came from steam, I'll copy and paste exactly what it says-

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

Before loading the script.
Exception: Couldn't find file '~$images.rpi'.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "C:\Users\Marie\Desktop\steam\steamapps\common\Doki Doki Literature Club\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 295, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "C:\Users\Marie\Desktop\steam\steamapps\common\Doki Doki Literature Club\renpy\main.py", line 300, in main
renpy.loader.index_archives()
File "C:\Users\Marie\Desktop\steam\steamapps\common\Doki Doki Literature Club\renpy\loader.py", line 163, in index_archives
fn = transfn(prefix + ".rpi")
File "C:\Users\Marie\Desktop\steam\steamapps\common\Doki Doki Literature Club\renpy\loader.py", line 615, in transfn
raise Exception("Couldn't find file '%s'." % name)
Exception: Couldn't find file '~$images.rpi'.

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.12.4.2187

[ReBoot]

That popup is from the game. Steam doesn't even use Ren'Py (which, I suppose, is a Python interpreter).
For starters, check manually whether the file exists.
And why are you installing games on your desktop?

[Falsus Te Deum]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

That popup is from the game. Steam doesn't even use Ren'Py (which, I suppose, is a Python interpreter).
For starters, check manually whether the file exists.
And why are you installing games on your desktop?

Just here to say that ren'py is a program for VN's. A program many VN's dev's use. like RPGmaker, unity and such.

[the moon reversed]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

That popup is from the game. Steam doesn't even use Ren'Py (which, I suppose, is a Python interpreter).
For starters, check manually whether the file exists.
And why are you installing games on your desktop?

The file did exist which I thought was weird but the file wasn't an rpi anymore, it was a document and I download the games on my desktop because y comp. is somewhat old and it is easies and faster to download it to my desktop.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by kazuichi's ♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

That popup is from the game. Steam doesn't even use Ren'Py (which, I suppose, is a Python interpreter).
For starters, check manually whether the file exists.
And why are you installing games on your desktop?

The file did exist which I thought was weird but the file wasn't an rpi anymore, it was a document and I download the games on my desktop because y comp. is somewhat old and it is easies and faster to download it to my desktop.

I don't get what you're saying. What does "wasn't an rpi" anymore mean? It was supposed to be a *.py file. What's "a document"? Check it's extension.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Dont install games in the desktop folder.

[T0M]

,,Dont install games in the desktop folder.'' thats true

[the moon reversed]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by kazuichi's ♥♥♥♥♥:

The file did exist which I thought was weird but the file wasn't an rpi anymore, it was a document and I download the games on my desktop because y comp. is somewhat old and it is easies and faster to download it to my desktop.

I don't get what you're saying. What does "wasn't an rpi" anymore mean? It was supposed to be a *.py file. What's "a document"? Check it's extension.

idk what it was to begin with but now instead of it being an .py it is a .doc like i can open it in word. Also thank you so much for helping me out, i might just have to delete all files then re-download the game :(

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by kazuichi's ♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

I don't get what you're saying. What does "wasn't an rpi" anymore mean? It was supposed to be a *.py file. What's "a document"? Check it's extension.

idk what it was to begin with but now instead of it being an .py it is a .doc like i can open it in word. Also thank you so much for helping me out, i might just have to delete all files then re-download the game :(

Ok, the question really is who or what renamed the file.
Verify the local game content. That should restore everything. If not, you've installed a program that messes with the files.
Not having games (or stuff in general) installed in your profile folder is a good idea. Installing it outside of your profile folder may also help with that crapware renaming things.

[the moon reversed]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by kazuichi's ♥♥♥♥♥:

idk what it was to begin with but now instead of it being an .py it is a .doc like i can open it in word. Also thank you so much for helping me out, i might just have to delete all files then re-download the game :(

Ok, the question really is who or what renamed the file.
Verify the local game content. That should restore everything. If not, you've installed a program that messes with the files.
Not having games (or stuff in general) installed in your profile folder is a good idea. Installing it outside of your profile folder may also help with that crapware renaming things.

Ok, I think I'm just going to delete all the files and re-download them but tysm! I also have an idea of what renamed it *cough gramarly cough*

[ReBoot]

But don't download to your desktop. Best not to install it into anything in your profile folder.

[the moon reversed]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

But don't download to your desktop. Best not to install it into anything in your profile folder.

ok and thanks again!