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[UselessMcMiner]

I just installed dfhack on my surface 2 running windows 10 and this happens

but the game runs fine but dfhack doesn't start up

[Quietust]

1. Wrong forum - this belongs in "Utilities and 3rd Party Applications"
2. The error states that it failed to open the file, which means you failed to follow the DFHack installation instructions correctly.

[edit]

To clarify, your Dwarf Fortress installation directory should contain a subdirectory named "hack", and symbols.xml should be in there (along with "lua", "plugins", "raw", "ruby", and "scripts" directories). If it does contain those, then post in the DFHack thread (in the above-mentioned subforum), because you might have encountered some sort of bizarre bug.

[UselessMcMiner]

1 Oh I'm an idiot I had a feeling there was a forums to that
2 Well I followed the instructions exactly copied the ell and made a spare ell file but it won't boot up I have used both versions of drab I 43.05 -r 1 and -r 2 but it won't work

[Shonai_Dweller]

1 Oh I'm an idiot I had a feeling there was a forums to that
2 Well I followed the instructions exactly copied the ell and made a spare ell file but it won't boot up I have used both versions of drab I 43.05 -r 1 and -r 2 but it won't work

All you have to do is drop the files into your DF folder and click ok once to overwrite the sdl file (a spare of the original is included). There's no copying or backing-up involved.

[UselessMcMiner]

Oh ok! I still have no idea what the problem is. There might be compatibility issues because it works fine on my home computer running windows 7

[Quietust]

Oh ok! I still have no idea what the problem is. There might be compatibility issues because it works fine on my home computer running windows 7

A screenshot of your Dwarf Fortress installation directory would help identify your problem.

Also, there shouldn't be any "compatibility issues" - as long as you follow the instructions correctly, it should work 100% correctly.

What exact steps did you perform when installing DFHack?

[UselessMcMiner]

Step 1 download
Step 2 extract dfhack into dwarf folder
Step 3 replace dll files
Step 4 run game

This is what I did for my desktop game which worked with these four steps. So I don't know what happened.

[lethosor]

Is there a symbols.xml file in the hack folder in your DF folder?

[UselessMcMiner]

Oui.

[lethosor]

Can you open it? Did you install DFHack as the same user that you're running it as?

Your DF folder structure should look something like this (with extra files, of course). Can you verify this?

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Dwarf Fortress.exe
SDL.dll
SDLreal.dll
...
hack
    symbols.xml
    plugins
    ...


[UselessMcMiner]

Yes just with the symbols.xml and plugins in reverse order.

[lethosor]

All right, but what about these?

Can you open it? Did you install DFHack as the same user that you're running it as?

("it" being symbols.xml - i.e. is it possible for you to open symbols.xml in some text editor?)

[UselessMcMiner]

Yes I can see it in a text editor I will upload it tomorrow

[Quietust]

How are you launching Dwarf Fortress? Are you double-clicking "Dwarf Fortress.exe" directly, or are you opening it from a shortcut?

[UselessMcMiner]

I'm opening it directly