Hi, I doubt anyone will read this but here it goes. I bought the engine and donated for years and cant seem to get it running. I know I missed something easy but it is what it is I did check YouTube for installation videos but alas no. Anyway if anyone knows where a video is or wishes to make on thanks other wise the game will stay in my itch.io library. You can consider the money a donation for a good cause. Thanks in advance.
After Maelstrom and ERAS download, make a Windows shortcut:
Target: is your computer's path to Maelstrom.exe
Start in: is your computer's path to the ERAS folder where you downloaded the ERAS mod and contains Program and RESOURCE directories and start.ini
there is no exe in eras Ii that I can find that is similar to the screenshot
ERAS has no .exe. From https://chezjfrey.itch.io/gentlemen-of-fortune-historical-eras-module-2
"This download contains the script mods and game assets. In order to play, you must use the newest Maelstrom Engine"
The .exe is is the Maelstrom downloadthat is what I figured however, that is not what 5he screen shot implies, I am still lost.
I know how to create shortcuts but not setting targets
The target is the path on your machine to wherever you downloaded Maelstrom.
Open a Windows file explorer and find the directory where you put the Maelstrom download:
In my example, it is E:\Maelstrom. There you will see several versions of Maelstrom: DirectX8_32bit, DirectX9_32bit, and DirectX9_64bit. If you have a 64 bit OS, like Windows 10, then double-click that directory and you will see this:
The Maelstrom.exe is in E:\Maelstrom\DirectX9_64bit directory, so the Target is E:\Maelstrom\DirectX9_64bit\Maelstrom.exe that you can see highlighted. If you have spaces in your directory names, you will have to put double quotes around it: "E:\Maelstrom\DirectX9_64bit\Maelstrom.exe"
