Tom Rothamel

This isn't a very common problem - I think it's been reported once so far in the history of Ren'Py. For it to trigger, you have to place Ren'Py in...

There does seem to be a patch in here that tries to get the APPDATA directly from the os, if %APPDATA% doesn't exist. What's the story behind that?

This should be fixed in Ren'Py 8.

renpy.py (or whatever it's named to) is the entrypoint of Ren'Py. Ren'Py is intended to be used as a game engine, and not a Python package.

I'll consider this - at the very least, having the module register itself with renpy.main so that it runs. The current approach is that all of the functions that are...

Can you please post an example game with this problem? I'd like to profile and see what's going on.

I've just filed an issue with SteamWorks support. I'll see what they have to say.

As a question, what do you see as the difference between this and just making a copy of the old game (and changing some of the config variables)?

Seems reasonable. I think I should be able to get this into the next major release.

Do any web browsers support avif? I tend to use that as my proxy for a format becoming popular enough that tools exist to make it worth using?