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[jzambo]

i think i have a problem . I installed dwarf fortress  pinned dwarf fortress.exe to my desktop but every time i try to open it it says not found:data/art/curses_640x300.png. What do i do

[Loam]

Check the data/art folder in your DF folder. If curses_640x300.png isn't there, try redownloading. If it is there... try redownloading also? I don't know.

When you say "pinned to desktop," do you mean you created a shortcut to it on the desktop, or did you move the actual .exe to the desktop? If the latter, the program probably needs to be in the same folder as its external data to operate.

[karhell]

i think i have a problem . I installed dwarf fortress  pinned dwarf fortress.exe to my desktop but every time i try to open it it says not found:data/art/curses_640x300.png. What do i do

Did you create a shortcut, or simply copy the executable ?
If the latter, it's no surprise. Since the entire game is in a zip file, with no registry fiddling or whatever, the executable has to be in the directory it came in. It searches for data at its location. There is no magical divination for it to know that the game data is elsewhere.
Try running Dwarf Fortress.exe in the directory where you unzipped the game, see if it works there.
If you want access from your desktop, you'll need to create a shortcut for it (right click > send to > Desktop(create a shortcut))

[jzambo]

well what i did was copy the executable to my desktop and try to open it but it told me that that file was missing so i tried copying the file to my desktop too but it still said the same thing

[Finn]

well what i did was copy the executable to my desktop and try to open it but it told me that that file was missing so i tried copying the file to my desktop too but it still said the same thing

Put the files  back where you got them from, create a shortcut to the executable and move the shortcut to the desktop.

[jzambo]

how do i create a shortcut to it from the zip file?

[PatrikLundell]

As Finn said, you need to create a shortcut. Technically, you COULD copy files, but that would require you to copy ALL files and place them in a corresponding file structure. It's generally a bad idea to copy executable files rather than make shortcuts (also called links), both because many programs rely of files being located at a specific location in the file structure relative to the executable AND because you end up with wasted file space where you have an extra copy. A shortcut, in contrast, uses up just a few bytes (probably a couple of kilobytes, due to the file system, but it's still considerably less than an exe copy).

What you just did was to copy .\data\art\curses_640x300.png to .\curses_640x300.png, where "." is where the original and copied exe respectively happens to be. IF you'd get that corrected, you'd fail on the next file, and then the next,... There are quite a few of them, and I'd suspect the program would actually start but behave rather strange if some of them were missing, so you couldn't rely on the failure messages to correct it anyway.

Edit: To answer your question typed while I wrote:
If you've got a single hard disk (C:) I'd create a directory (a.k.a. folder) called e.g. Games at the top level inside that folder I'd create another one called Dwarf Fortress. I'd then unzip the contents of the zip file to that folder. (I.e. typically open the zip file, select everything in it, and then copy it). Thereafter you can create a shortcut to C:Games\Dwarf Fortress\Dwarf Fortress.exe by dragging the exe to the desktop while holding down shift and control at the same time (the icon changes from a '+' in the corner to a bent arrow).
Note that this sequence does NOT invalidate what I said above about copies being bad. Compressed data has to be uncompressed before being used (even if the computer may be able to execute and use the files within the compressed folder, the work would be slow because the computer would have to uncompress data every time.
If you have both an OS disk (typically an SSD disk) and a data disk, I'd uncompress to the corresponding path on D: instead of C:.

[jzambo]

how do i unzip things out of the zip folder? ( sorry for all the questions im new to this sort of thing)

[jzambo]

okay so i created a folder named games a folder in side that named dwarf fortress and copied the zip folder for dwarf fortress into the folder but how do i make a link to the exe without copying it to the desktop?

[jzambo]

and the shift and control thing wont make a link

[jzambo]

okay i figured out how to uncompress the file now its working thanks so much all of you who helped me finally be able to play  i may post again with more questions but for now thank you!!

[Finn]

Congrats, good job!  Now that you have it running the best advice I can give is "stick with it".  It may take a while to figure it out, but it's worth it.  Use the wiki, it's your best friend, and keep asking questions here.  Good luck!

Hint: get a plump helmet farm going, then a brewery.  You'll need barrels for the brewery.

[PatrikLundell]

We can tell you're new, but not giving up yet is a good start! The DF learning curve is steep, and so, DF isn't for the 5 second attention span crowd. Also everyone does "stupid" mistakes while playing.
We try our best to help out new players. Remember, the first, second, and third place to check is the wiki (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/) which contains an amazing amount of information (and it's also faster than waiting for an answer). This should be taken as an advice, not an attempt to discourage questions.

[Dunamisdeos]

And I promise to include a generous serving of snarky humor with all of my answers to your questions, in addition to the answer.