BS1 will not open

[deskoilot]

Please help!!:mad: Within the last three days I have been trying to install Modman and have it connect to my BS-1 program. Good news/Bad news

Good news, I was able to do that after I located my launcher.Exe file and show it where the "ROOT" file was. Bad News, I no longer have a launcher file, the shortcut will not open the game nor can I open it going anywhere else. Error note says unable to locate the component, cannot find the lua.dll file. it tells me to reinstall the application but I really don't want to that unless I have to becuse of the way my game is set up to work with the four monitors in my pit sim. Any Idea's My OS is Windows XP

[EtherealN]

The location of the launcher file is not the root. If you have told it that the bin folder is the root it will not be able to parse properly and exactly what you describe has happened.

 

If you have BS1 installed to C:\Games\DCSBS\ then that is the root, while launcher.exe is located in C:\Games\DCSBS\bin\x86\stable\.

 

Note how the standard windows shortcut stipulates the following in the above case:

 

Target: "C:\Games\DCSBS\bin\x86\stable\Launcher.exe"

Start in: "C:\Games\DCSBS"

 

EDIT: In case you are unfamiliar with what a root actually means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_directory

 

"In computer file systems, the root directory is the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy. It can be likened to the root of a tree — the starting point where all branches originate."

 

So it's not a "file", it's a directory - or in windows lingo, a "folder". It is also the start of the given hierarchy, meaning that for a given program it is the folder that is "lowest" (hence "root", as with plants) point relevant to that program or, commonly, hard drive or file system. (C:\ is the "root" of drive C, D:\ is the "root" of drive D, C:\Windows\ is the "root" of your Windows install.)

Edited September 21, 2012 by EtherealN

[deskoilot]

Thank you, thats helps a lot for me to locate the ROOT file, but my problem now is the game will not open. (from desktop or within the game).