What are you trying to avoid about reinstalling? Do you have custom scripts? It shouldn't overwrite them unless they have the same name as scripts in DFHack.
We have an insanely stupid, useless 37 GB hard-drive and the computer is over 10 years old. It just recently had it's space doubled so it's usable for basic things. To be brief, there's many house conflicts about it being dumb, and conserving hard-drive space when possible is a good thing. DF is all it has space and energy to run decently, without consuming the entire computer's resources.
Upon installing it I did overwrite the SDL file when asked, and it errored, so that's probably what caused the issue. If I were to just remove both instances of the SDL file and place them in a seperate folder and have nothing in the df folder, would it still install correctly, or would it not at all? I don't think I would be able to stop the error any other way.
If I have to I will reinstall it, i'm not
that desperate, but it's an avoid-this-if-even-remotely-possible kind of scenario.
Well, you have to replace DF's copy of SDL.dll with the one distributed by DFHack. If you've already downloaded DFHack, it should only be a matter of copying over the file.
I can't replace just that because I can't open .7z files the same way I can open .zip files. It's not a folder or a pseudo-folder; the files are inaccessible. I have no choice but to extract it all at once, picking and choosing files is not an option.
Thanks for the help everyone.