Well I thought that I would download and play with the 1.18 beta as I had heard that you could get water and other effects. Then found out that the water level could be controlled with the pg up and pg down keys. I was happy with the wide range of improvements. But when I compiled a small test level into a standard exe and tried to run it I got sound but no graphics, just a black screen. and yet things worked fine in the editor.
I reverted back to 1.17 and compiled another quick level design. Ran the new executable, no problems. So I don't know if it's me, but in short 1.18 compiled executables don't work, but 1.17 works fine. I appreciate it's still in beta, but just wanted to mention it anyway.
jonmoreton