hello, i was watching a youtube video of this game, and it seemed really exciting to i followed the instructions, which were to download the latest build and extract it and run it. i did this, and it did not work. after selecting a menu option it crashed on me. running it in compatability mode or admin did not fix this. i went to the IRC chat and they told me to download http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Windows/Tiles/ 2815, which i did, and i got the same error. i would love to be able to try this game out, but i would need to solve this issue first. is anyone here experienced enough to help me through this problem? i am using windows 7 64 bit. thank you for reading.
Try opening up options.txt and changing the value for SOFTWARE_RENDERING. Some graphics cards freak out when it’s on the wrong setting there. You will need to restart the game after changing it for it to take effect.
didnt work 
Have you tried the ASCII Curses version?
not sure what you mean there.
That would be the not-sdl/tiles version.
Stable: http://assets.cataclysmdda.com/downloads/windows_binaries/cddacurses-current.zip
Experimental: http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Windows/Curses/
ah, yes i have used those.
Just tried on my non-dev machine (with a working browser though), and latest dev works fine on Win7 Home Premium 32-bit. Wish I had better news.
Resolved
User was hitting spacebar rather than enter when selecting a menu option -> spacebar closes the program when at the title screen. (also program “crashes” anytime it’s shut down).