Why is that I have problems getting a lot of example code to run on my machine? I was interested in this product but find that 50% of the game/graphics examples do not work!
I have P4, 512MB ram and Fx5600 card, running Windows XP Pro SP1 and DX9.
I am considering making the switch from blitz, but the issue of non running examples is putting me off.
Hi monkeyX ... you already asked the question in the other post .. pls don't flood the forum with repeating topics. Anyway if you have troubles running an example please state the example that you are having troubles running. maybe we could help debug the code to see if we can get it running on your machine or maybe we could suggest some reasons why. Also be more specific of what won't run. Maybe your program won't execute because your machine is infected with viruses (which has nothing to to with purebasic). Or maybe you where mistaken and bought a really old crappy video card and think its a fx5600 , a lot of directx blending combinations are not supported on older video cards (again not the fault of purebasic). Anyway I would appreciate if you could be more specific.
I am considering making the switch from blitz, but the issue of non running examples is putting me off.
but just putting out a blanket statement and saying you will switch to blitz is a little silly and won't help either. So i ask exactly what examples can't you run ? (so we can help)
Most examples dont work unless you have the full version.. or are you already using it?
oh ok ... i think i misunderstood and thought monkeyx couldn't get the executeables working . If monkeyx tried my example code i posted it definately won't work because it includes image files into the executeable that aren't available. hope that helps.
Your machine at work may not even have directx 7.? installed or the video drivers may not be up to date or the video card may not support all sorts of things. Anyway the code that was provided had no error checking so that is the fault of myself, yes i'm too blame ... i could have put a check to see if each drawing component has been initialized properly , so it would warn you that directx/3d could not be initialized on 'that' particular machine. but it was a quick program and i removed any error handling feedback
Why is that I have problems getting a lot of example code to run on my machine? I was interested in this product but find that 50% of the game/graphics examples do not work! 
