windows-setup-guide.md

Windows guide

Made by discord user @Aisiktir

1.) Python, https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.6/python-3.11.6-amd64.exe

2.) Install it, make sure "Add Python to path" is enabled

3.) Git, https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.42.0.windows.2/Git-2.42.0.2-64-bit.exe

4.) Install it

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5.) Microsoft C++ Build Tools, https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

6.) Install it

Windows 11

Windows 10

7.) Open cmd

7.1) Move into the 'baselines' directory of the repository, depending where you've downloaded it, something like this:

cd "C:\Users\YourWindowsUsername\Downloads\PokemonRedExperiments\baselines"

7.2) Type "pip install -r requirements.txt"

7.3) If you didn't got any warnings or red text you're good to go and use it

If you had already a version of python installed, Python 3.11.6 might not work from the above command lines, you should use the below paths for the pip command and the python command

"%localappdata%\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\pip.exe" install -r requirements.txt

"%localappdata%\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe" run_pretrained_interactive.py

"%localappdata%\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe" run_baseline_parallel_fast.py