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Windows Game won't build

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Tecky

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I'm trying to build my GameMaker game on Windows, but I can't even get it to run, forget about exporting it. It works on Mac OS, so I know there's not an endless loop in the game code or something. I've tried on two Windows machines, both of which had Windows 10.

If i try to build or run the game, it starts loading and gets to the terminal output of "Writing Chunk... BGDN." I tried letting it load and doing something else, and it loaded for 5h until I decided it was just not going to work. There is no error message, no compile errors, nothing.
For the Windows, platform settings, I have double checked and made sure, the Visual Studio location is pointed at the right vsvars32.bat, following this tutorial: https://help.yoyogames.com/hc/en-us/articles/235186048-Setting-Up-For-Windows

I'm not sure what difference it makes what the default packaging type is, but I've tried all of them, and I've double checked I'm using the newest Runtime.
The IDE is IDE v2.3.1.542 and I'm trying to make a VM (not YYC) build.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.
 
Roldy

Roldy

Member
Tecky said:
I'm trying to build my GameMaker game on Windows, but I can't even get it to run, forget about exporting it. It works on Mac OS, so I know there's not an endless loop in the game code or something. I've tried on two Windows machines, both of which had Windows 10.

If i try to build or run the game, it starts loading and gets to the terminal output of "Writing Chunk... BGDN." I tried letting it load and doing something else, and it loaded for 5h until I decided it was just not going to work. There is no error message, no compile errors, nothing.
For the Windows, platform settings, I have double checked and made sure, the Visual Studio location is pointed at the right vsvars32.bat, following this tutorial: https://help.yoyogames.com/hc/en-us/articles/235186048-Setting-Up-For-Windows

I'm not sure what difference it makes what the default packaging type is, but I've tried all of them, and I've double checked I'm using the newest Runtime.
The IDE is IDE v2.3.1.542 and I'm trying to make a VM (not YYC) build.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.
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The IDE version is 2.3.1.542 but what is the runtime version you are using? Help->About.
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What happens if you just try to run a Demo? You can download them through GMS2:
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rIKmAN

rIKmAN

Member
Tecky said:
Thanks! Yes, I can run a demo.
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Visual Studio is not needed if you are just trying to run using VM.

Can you post the full output of your compiler log?
Use the "Code" button in the toolbar above where you type your repy to put it in code tags.

Do you have any backgrounds, and if so how big are they?
 
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