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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Having trouble running my program on other PCs

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Batty
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Posted: 27th Oct 2003 06:42 Edited at: 27th Oct 2003 07:05
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When I make an installable exe I get a variaty of errors when I try to run it on other PCs depending on what I do. Sometime my program fails saying it can't load a file that definitly exists other times it just crashes back to windows.

Everything works fine on the PC I created the program on.

And before anyone asks, yes I do have the latest direct X and video drivers on the target PC

Has anyone else had problems like this?
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DMXtra
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Posted: 27th Oct 2003 13:47
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What version of DBPro are you using? The latest is upgrade 5.1. Are you using that version?

What are the detailed specs on the target machine?
OS,Processor, RAM, video card and video card ram.
Version of direct X you are using (run DXDIAG.EXE to find out).

Have you tested the system with DXDIAG.EXE to see what happens?

Dark Basic Pro - The Bedroom Coder's Language of choice for the 21st Century.
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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 27th Oct 2003 19:28
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we need to know everything not just the tip of the ice-burg
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Batty
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Posted: 27th Oct 2003 23:09
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I am running the latest version of DBPro (5.1)

The Target PC is a P3 550 running windows 98.
It has DirectX 9.1b and passes all the tests in DXDIAG.
It has a NVIDIA Gforce3.
512 Megs of Ram

The error I get first is "Can't Load music at line..."

Although the Music is in the directory it is supposed to be in. If I rem out the lines that deal with the music the program just crashes back to windows with no message.

The music is in .wma format and works fine if I play it through media player.

Everything also works fine on the PC I developed on. (A P4 2Ghz with NVIDIA Gforce 3)

I have tried several variations, making an EXE with attached media, making an installable exe etc. the result is identical for all of them. I am going to try this on several other PC's next to see if I get the same results. (work kindda gets in the way sometimes and haven't had a chance yet )

I would say that I am a novice to DBPro as I have only been using it for just over 2 months but I am certainly not a novice to programming or the games industry having been in it for 20 years now

I kept my last post minimal in the hopes that the reply might be something like "you idiot you forgot to check the I want it to run on other PCs checkbox " <sigh> So if there is any other information you need that might let you help me just let me know.

Oh and BTW I just love DBPro All said and done it is a great piece of software.

Thanks
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