cooksean55@gmail.com Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 I have Minecraft 1.15.2. I downloaded the appropriate forge version and made sure my Java is up-to-date. Every time I launch the installer all that happens is a window pops up, there is black in the screen, and then closes. Please let me know what I am doing wrong. Thank you for your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugdhar Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Try running the installer from the commandline, and see what it outputs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksean55@gmail.com Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 May I ask for specifics. I am relatively new to this. Thank you for the reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugdhar Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 If you are running windows, open the folder the installer is in, right-click on a blank spot and choose open command (or powershell) window. then in that window, type java -jar <filename> and press enter. So if the file I downloaded was forge-1.15.2-31.1.37-installer.jar it would be java -jar forge-1.15.2-31.1.37-installer.jar If it fails, type java -version and paste the output here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksean55@gmail.com Posted April 7, 2020 Author Share Posted April 7, 2020 So when I went for the blank spot it did not have the option to open command. however I did get the command prompt to open and I followed your instructions. It failed. here is the results of your second request java version "1.8.0_241" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_241-b07) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.241-b07, mixed mode) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugdhar Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 2 hours ago, cooksean55@gmail.com said: So when I went for the blank spot it did not have the option to open command. however I did get the command prompt to open and I followed your instructions. It failed. here is the results of your second request java version "1.8.0_241" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_241-b07) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.241-b07, mixed mode) The good news is you have Java 8, so once you get there the installer should run. I do notice you have the 32-bit version, hopefully it won't matter for running the installer. I am guessing that you may not be in the correct directory (folder) when executing the command. Ctrl+M in the command window will let you mark stuff to copy (press Enter after marking it), and then you can paste what your command prompt window looks like here. Show your attempt at running the installer, and then after also show the results of typing dir at the command prompt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksean55@gmail.com Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.720] (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\cooks>java -jar forge-1.15.2-31.1.37-installer.jar Error: Unable to access jarfile forge-1.15.2-31.1.37-installer.jar C:\Users\cooks>dir Volume in drive C is Windows Volume Serial Number is 12A9-49FB Directory of C:\Users\cooks 03/07/2020 07:18 PM <DIR> . 03/07/2020 07:18 PM <DIR> .. 11/10/2017 06:35 AM <DIR> .Origin 11/10/2017 06:35 AM <DIR> .QtWebEngineProcess 03/11/2020 04:12 PM <DIR> 3D Objects 04/24/2018 08:11 PM <DIR> ansel 03/11/2020 04:12 PM <DIR> Contacts 12/20/2019 03:33 PM <DIR> Creative Cloud Files 08/10/2019 03:37 PM <DIR> Desktop 05/01/2018 09:25 AM <DIR> Documents 04/07/2020 12:21 AM <DIR> Downloads 03/11/2020 04:12 PM <DIR> Favorites 03/11/2020 04:12 PM <DIR> Links 03/11/2020 04:12 PM <DIR> Music 03/20/2020 05:46 PM <DIR> OneDrive 05/01/2018 09:25 AM <DIR> Pictures 03/11/2020 04:12 PM <DIR> Saved Games 03/11/2020 04:12 PM <DIR> Searches 09/11/2019 05:19 AM 0 Sti_Trace.log 03/25/2020 03:54 AM <DIR> Videos 1 File(s) 0 bytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugdhar Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Where did you save forge installer jar? You have to CD into that folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksean55@gmail.com Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 It went into my downloads folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugdhar Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, cooksean55@gmail.com said: It went into my downloads folder Ok, that's good, since your downloads folder is right there. cd Downloads typing the above command will move you into the downloads folder, it should change the prompt to say C:\Users\cooks\Downloads> Then you can try typing the java -jar forge<TAB> again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksean55@gmail.com Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 Thank you that seems to have worked. I appreciate your time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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