Install Help

[Skylinerev]

Hi there, i know this may sound retarded but where is the setup.exe file for the game in the .zip file?

[esteel]

Hi..

There is NONE. Just extract the zip file were you want to have the game and double click on nexuiz.exe or nexuiz-sdl.exe to start it.
I hope the following info is right, its a long time since i last used windows.. If you want you can use shift-right-mouse-button to drag one of the two into your start menu, select 'create shortcut here'.

[tZork]

There is no setup.exe

All you have to do is extract the zip somwhere and run nexuiz.exe (or nexuiz-sdl.exe)

[Ed]

If someone felt strongly enough about it they could produce their own installer from the ZIP file. If they were able to put the work in then they could be the maintainer for it for each release. As much as using your OS's native package management format is a good thing, Windows is an exception as MSI breaks so much of the time it would be best not to use it.

[Skylinerev]

Yeah, i feel really retarded now lol. It's just that all of the free FPS games i've downloaded have a Setup.exe install file o.O so strange that this one doesnt, but it's better that it's not clogging up your registry i suppose.

[esteel]

Yeah, i feel really retarded now lol. It's just that all of the free FPS games i've downloaded have a Setup.exe install file o.O so strange that this one doesnt, but it's better that it's not clogging up your registry i suppose.

No reason to feel anything . Yeah there are a few people that would like a setup but all it would need to do is to display a dialog to select a directory to extract the files into and create shortcuts in the windows start menu. But so far no one wrote an installer and it might make it harder to reuse the same file on mac and linux. With the zip file you can use it just on any of those platforms. And making it a separate setup (that would need the zip file) could also confuse some people.. but would probably be the easiest way and also keep it cross-platform.