Comment on Sai brush settings by Emeridan

Hey there- you're probably no longer having this problem/gave up on it, but for future artists running into this problem (such as myself), it appears that the .exe needs to be run from the PaintToolSAI folder to properly navigate resources (should be located in your default C:\ drive unless you installed it in a different directory, specifically "C:\PaintToolSAI"). Place the start_sai.exe in that directory then try running it, it should properly initialize the brushes from there. After that you can run SAI through the other/standard launcher (you do not need to keep using start_sai.exe after initializing brushes the first time). Hope it helps, and thanks for the original post Emeridan!
-ClockworkWisp