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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Error in running

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Pepzi
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2011 09:15
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I'm not sure where to ask this but..
Hi, I'm totally new to DarkBasic but have some knowledge in programming. My problem is; I have just installed the DBPro Free and tried to run a block of codes but unfortunately I get an error after compiling..

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Is this has something to do with DirectX? My pc has the DirectX 11 on it, as seen on dxdiag.

I hope you will help me, Thanks.

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Somarl
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2011 17:04
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Hi, do you have windows 7 by any chance. I have vista at home but my laptop uses 7 and i got these same errors. I do not understand them one bit but i do know how to fix it.

Type the name of that into google and try to download it, be careful as there are a lot of bull---- sites that just run you round in circles, when you get the file copy it into windows/system where the rest of the .dlls are and also try putting it into your project folder. For some reason this worked for me and now things i wrote in vista that worked fine, now also work fine in windows 7.

If anyone knows why this is i would love to know, but at least its easily fixable.
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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2011 17:26
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Darkbasic Pro requires DirectX 9.0c to work properly. It's possible to have 9 and 10 or 11 working at the same time.

DirectX 9.0c: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en

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Somarl
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2011 20:52
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I thought that directx 11 would contain everything that 9c was and more. So 9, 10 and 11 are seperate. I suppose a quicker fix would have been for me to just download dx9 for my laptop then. I just got the missing .dlls and it worked fine but i might load up the laptop and do that now incase i get any future issues. It seems silly to me that a comp with dx11 would have this issue but i guess its not an upgrade to dx9 more than it is a seperate thing in itself. Thanks for the heads up.
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Grog Grueslayer
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Yeah it's better to install DirectX 9.0c just in case you run into a .dll that you haven't needed before. Yeah they work differently so Microsoft separated them but still allow them to work at the same time for older games/programs that required 9.

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Pepzi
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Posted: 25th Feb 2011 05:57
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Thanks Grog! It worked fine!
I tried the pdf tutorial from the site entitled Screen Scrolling 1
but it ended with an error.



Any suggestion how to fix this? or what's wrong with this?
Thanks, expect much more questions for me for I want to try creating a 2D Platformer Side-Scrolling game for my thesis I hope you guys guide me throughout, Thanks!

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 25th Feb 2011 10:40
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Quote: "Any suggestion how to fix this? or what's wrong with this?"


Well, it looks like that file is in the Media directory so load it like this:



Quote: "Thanks, expect much more questions for me for I want to try creating a 2D Platformer Side-Scrolling game for my thesis I hope you guys guide me throughout, Thanks!"


Yeah np. In issue 62-75 of The Game Creators Newsletter VanB talks about Building a Platform Game (close to the bottom).

http://www.thegamecreators.com/pages/newsletters/newsletter_issue_62.html

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