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Hello,

I am having an issue that I can't seem to solve. I have experimented with the various tutorials available in the Dark GDK. I can run all of them in Debug mode INSIDE of Visual C++ 2008 Express. However, when I try to compile the programs and run the executables (by double clicking on them) they don't ever run. Its just a black screen. One difference is the Dark Invaders game. When I built a release version of that...it actually errored out and gave me this error instead of simple sticking on a black screen:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Dark Invaders.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 47fd8f4d
Fault Module Name: StackHash_fd00
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000001f5
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

Am I missing something simple? I am running Vista 64-bit on an AMD 6000 processor. I just don't see why they run fine in Visual c++ and not when I try to run them from the .exe files generated by the compile.

Thanks
-sunsu

It's because the media directory is located in the intermediate directory for VS, so when run through VS it finds the media directory. If you copy the media folder into the output directory for your app it will run ok, or change the following line:

SetCurrentDirectory ( "media" );

to this:

SetCurrentDirectory ( "../media" );

it should work. But, I would not recommend doing it this way because it will not run from within VS then, copying the directory to the output path is the proper way to do it.

Oh...wow I am a moron. Thanks so much for helping me with that!