ID:2404409
 Oct 10 2018, 8:04 pm
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So I've come across this issue where byond can't open because it says it can't find byondwin.dll. This message started happening after I closed a game and tried logging back in. I uninstalled and removed the files then tried to reinstall and the message popped up again too, again saying it can't proceed to download because it can't find byondwin.dll
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I've had this happen to me before a few times (all a couple of years ago) on windows 7, I was never able to figure out why. Only solution was to just delete the byond folder in program files (x86) or reboot.
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Sounds like antivirus/security flagged the file incorrectly and got it stuck. Since the installer requires admin privileges it should have no issue writing.
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Access denied often happens if the file already has a write handle open to it.
googling around suggests there are a variety of stupid reasons this can happen, all of them solved by hoping for the next update to fix it or reinstalling windows. I think this might just be one of those annoying windows bugs relating to shadow file handles being left around. For some time /tg/ had an issue where the update staging folder would randomly become a undeletable unopenable file that then went away after dd was restarted, It was randomly fixed in some windows update. Endofhonor: have you tried rebooting the computer then running the installer? | |
What does the exact message say? Do you have a screenshot? Do you have a list of files in the BYOND install directory as well?