Having trouble getting into the game..

[Fethac]

Just got the game from desura, but am having a heck of a time getting it past the intro screen would be my best guess. It just loads the java window, and a picture of a dude holding a woman while suspenseful music plays in the background in a loop. Tried re-installing 32 and 64 bit versions of java, resetting my pc and running it in all 4 modes (32 safe/32 and 64 safe/64). I'm running windows 7 64 bit. I do get the  "java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified" error at the end of the java window.

I've attached a screenshot of what I get. Any help would be appreciated, I would love to play this game!

[Fethac]

Well figured it out, and normally this would have been something I would have tried to begin with, but it all came down to just setting the exe to run as an admin. Thanks for the help though folks! 

 

Now for the pesky controller setup hehe..

[kkdarknight]

 a dude holding a woman 

Oh my god I cannot believe you just said that

[Cas]

a friend of mine got the same error when opening the .zip with winRar (or a familiar program). Try to put the .zip contents in a folder on your desktop / documents / downloads folder and try again.

 

Correct me if i'm wrong.

[Fethac]

Which zip? If you are talking about the game itself, I am using the version that Desura installs, I figured it would be the latest one. If your talking about the java runtimes, I tried putting them in the same directory as the game to no avail. Thanks for the suggestion though! I have a sneaky suspicion that I am having problems due to me using a secondary hard drive for my program files, as Desura already complains there isn't enough space on my C drive even though I have it using a completely separate drive.

[kinyoshi]

If the two of the cats in your profile images had a baby. That would be awesome!!

[Fethac]

Hmm Grumpy Tiger then huh? Heh 

[EnigmaGrey]

Desura's client sometimes doesn't install things all that "right." Sometimes, perhaps we can even call it "wrong."

Go to %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Desura\Common\ and delete the Project Zomboid folder then re-install the game. (Location may very by computer e.g. %ProgramFiles%).

If this issue continues to persist, http://www.desura.co...omboid/download has a stand-alone version of the game.

[Kevlar_29]

Now for the pesky controller setup hehe..

If you need help with that hit the link in my sig if you haven't already.

[Kevlar_29]

I'm never going to change my sig. It took me 2 solid days to think up that one.

 

not really.

[nasKo]

If you need help with that hit the link in my sig if you haven't already.

Since chances are that he's going to change his sig some day, here's the link:

 

http://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php/topic/123-how-to-use-your-controllers-with-project-zomboid/