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Installation

Marwin edited this page Feb 12, 2024 · 12 revisions

💻 Prerequisites

Before installing please check if your computer (desktop, notebook etc.) fullfill minimum requirements.

⚙️ How to install Vocaluxe on Windows PC

  1. ⬇️ Download Vocaluxe from GitHub (linked on Vocaluxe Homepage).
  2. 📦 Unrar the compressed file
  3. 📋 Copy the Vocaluxe v0.4.1 folder into C:\Program Files directory or C:\Program Files (x86) if you have a Windows 64x version
  4. 📂 Enter into the folder and find the Vocaluxe.exe file. Click right on it and Send to > Desktop or add to taskbar
  5. 🎵 Create a new subfolder called "Songs" in Vocaluxe Folder and add your songs (TXT files and MP3 files) into the song folder.
  6. 📂 Make sure that the path of the song folder is mentioned properly in the configuration file called config.xml.
    Open the XML-File and look out for:
    <!--SongFolder: SongFolder1, SongFolder2, SongFolder3, ...-->
    <SongFolder1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Vocaluxe\Songs\</SongFolder1>
    Of course you can add more custom song folder path outside Vocaluxe folder like
    <SongFolder2>C:\My Files\Open Music Games\Songs\</SongFolder2>
  7. ⬇️ Download and install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2010 (x64 if you're unsure)
  8. ⬇️ Download and install Microsoft DirectX End-User Runtime
  9. 🚀 You can now play launching the game from the icon on your desktop.
  10. 🎉 Have fun!

ℹ️ Hints

  • We provide portable versions of Vocaluxe for every release. There is no installer yet. We plan to have a good installer wizard or automatic update routine in future to make everything easier.
  • As starter we recommend you to play the latest official release (stable) v0.4.1 from March 3th 2020 (nightly build contains latest features but is not completely tested).
  • If you play the nightly build you need to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2022.
  • Do you have questions about adding or finding songs? Look here FAQ about songs
  • We recommend having a shared song folder outside the games folder cause every game of open music games organization use the same song files and you might wanna change games sometimes.

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