Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine

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    - Conecting my computer to Xbox 360 Posted too soon, sorry. I meant to also include this link , since it has images and troubleshooting tips toward the end of the page. Note that the most common problem is that you entered the key incorrectly while entering the connection settings in the Visual C# IDE. Please try creating a new key and re-entering. Some characters are hard to tell apart, particularly I and 1, and especially on standard-definition TVs. If you enter the wrong code, the connection attempt will time-out. Several other people have had to try two or three times to get it right. --Stephen Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Will we be able to shared compiled versions of XNA apps? I agree with Jim, you only need to supply the source for x360 games. With windows games you are able to package your applications. Note that with c# express and the other express packages you are only able to use the click once deployment method, if you wish to build full install packages you will need to use a third party installer or use the binaries only inside a VS Pro install project. You are able to though just add the binaries and content files into a copressed (Zip) file and publish those. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Timing gamePad button, trigger and thumbsticks Excellent, cheers for that mate. I've slightly adapted your timing code by splitting the task between the Update and UpdateInput methods. For some reason this seemed to work better. I've aslo put a Console.LineWrite in there so peeps can see if its all working as its supposed to. Code Snippet System.TimeSpan buttonStartTimePress; System.TimeSpan buttonTotalTimePress; bool buttonPress; bool previousButtonPress; protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime) { // Allows the default game to exit on Xbox 360 and Windows if (GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One).Buttons.Back == ButtonState.Pressed) this.Exit(); UpdateInput(); if (buttonPress != previousButtonPress) { if (buttonPress) // Start recording the time. buttonStartTimePress = gameTime.TotalGameTime; else { // Finsh recording the time. buttonTotalTimePress = gameTime.TotalGameTime - buttonStartTimePress; Console.WriteLine(buttonTotalTimePress); } previousButtonPress = buttonPress; } base.Update(gameTime); } GamePadState previousGamePadState; void UpdateInput() { // Check the current state of Player One. GamePadState currentState = GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One); // Process input only if connected and if the packet numbers differ. if ((currentState.IsConnected) && (currentState.PacketNumber != previousGamePadState.PacketNumber)) { if (currentState.Buttons.A == ButtonState.Pressed && previousGamePadState.Buttons.A == ButtonState.Released) { // Button A has just been pressed. GamePad.SetVibration(PlayerIndex.One, 1.0f, 1.0f); buttonPress = true; } else if (currentState.Buttons.A == ButtonState.Released && previousGamePadState.Buttons.A == ButtonState.Pressed) { // Button A has just been released. GamePad.SetVibration(PlayerIndex.One, 0.0f, 0.0f); buttonPress = false; } // When finished with differences, update PreviousGamePadState. previousGamePadState = currentState; } } Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - In-Game Collision Detection I have seen this article before, as well as downloaded the source code for it, but this is only for 2D Sprite collision detection - what I need is 3D mathematical collision, such as when a BoundingSphere intersects a plane, but only within a certain triangle (the triangle collision is being tested against). And not only do I need to know whether or not there's a collision, I need to know specific angles so the player will 'slide' along the wall if approaching it at an angle - sort of like in Half-Life 2 for you Steam fans (I'm one too!). Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Need help - disappearing lines and solids! I suppose it does; I apologise as I am fairly new to this. What i am trying to do is draw an object like this: http://temp.jw.id.au/tristrip.jpg The top one is at full size, the bottom one is as far as I can zoom out before it disappears. I need it to stay visible (without any gaps between the triangles) even if i zoom out even further. All the drawing will be done on the same Z-plane. Is there some other way i should be doing this Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Bug in Mouse.SetPosition This situation only occurs when you have two monitors connected to the same computer After you deactivate and then activate a full screen game the Mouse.SetPosition() command doesn't work properly. That is, the command sets the mouse to a different position to what Mouse.GetState() returns (See Below). This is very annoying, especially when it comes to debugging Mouse .SetPosition(_screen._game.Window.ClientBounds.Width / 2, _screen._game.Window.ClientBounds.Height / 2); MouseState ms = Mouse .GetState(); if (ms.X != _screen._game.Window.ClientBounds.Width / 2 || ms.Y != _screen._game.Window.ClientBounds.Height / 2) { Console .WriteLine( "Ahhh!" ); } Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to create a Hight Precision Timer on Xbox You could use a StopWatch, or (better) you could use the parameters on the Game object to control how fast your Update tick runs. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XBox has died how do I go about transferring my creators club etc. to the new unit when it arrives? I haven't tried this myself, but hopefully all your arcade games are also tied to your gamer profile. You should just be able to re-download them when the new one arrives. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Collision Detection With Bezier Curves I think this method might be too slow, and how would the MoveAway() method know which direction to move and how much One way could be to calculate a unit vector pointing away from the terrain and then work out how much the player would need to be moved along that vector to get out of the terrain. If you looped through adding or subtracting until it isn't colliding, that would leave how fast you would get the player out of the terrain up to chance. I don't think I can do that since the "if the two lines are intersecting" statement is inside 4 nested for loops . Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Cannot run Release build, crash... What do you mean "noether of them run" What happens when you try to run them Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - The Unofficial "Hooray I'm Done With my DBP Game" Thread Catalin, I can't wait to see your game, you do great work. I was up until 3 last night, and then I didn't sleep well. My game is called "Spacewar: Mission Pegasus" and is a 2.5D scroller. Bill Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - low fps here is my draw func protected override void Draw( GameTime gameTime) { VertexPositionColor [] axes = new VertexPositionColor ; axes[1] = new VertexPositionColor ( new Vector3 (100, 0, 0), Color .Red); axes[3] = new VertexPositionColor ( new Vector3 (0, 100, 0), Color .Green); axes[5] = new VertexPositionColor ( new Vector3 (0, 0, 100), Color .BlueViolet); basicEffect.View = mainCamera.ViewMatrix; basicEffect.Texture = tz[0]; basicEffect.Begin(); foreach ( EffectPass pass in basicEffect.CurrentTechnique.Passes) { pass.Begin(); graphics.GraphicsDevice.VertexDeclaration = decl1; graphics.GraphicsDevice.DrawUserPrimitives< VertexPositionColor >( PrimitiveType .LineList, axes, 0, 3); graphics.GraphicsDevice.VertexDeclaration = decl; graphics.GraphicsDevice.Vertices[0].SetSource(vb, 0, VertexPositionTexture .SizeInBytes); graphics.GraphicsDevice.Indices = ib; graphics.GraphicsDevice.DrawIndexedPrimitives( PrimitiveType .TriangleList, 0, 0, lz * 4, 0, lz * 2); pass.End(); } basicEffect.End(); base .Draw(gameTime); DrawFps(); } where lz is 100 vb = new VertexBuffer (graphics.GraphicsDevice, VertexPositionTexture .SizeInBytes * lz * 4, ResourceUsage .None); vb.SetData< VertexPositionTexture >(pz); ib = new IndexBuffer (graphics.GraphicsDevice, sizeof ( int ) * lz * 6, ResourceUsage .None, IndexElementSize .ThirtyTwoBits); ib.SetData< int >(idz); setuped earlier in loadgraphicscontent Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Microsoft's future policy for redistributing Xbox 360 games? I don't know if running on xbox 360 is essential to your idea, if not, you can always work on the Windows version. Although that has some hardware requirements which your students/lab may not have. I also wish MS would clarify the distribution strategy. Sure, you can zip up the source and pass it out like candies. But no one can run it unless they plop down $100 for Creator Club membership. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Trying to pass a cubemap.dds to a fx shader Darkside, Thanks for taking the time to have a look and respond. If I replace Environment with a texture parameter then I get a compile error as the lerp function needs it to be a float4. If I don't load the parameter and hard code the texture location this does not work either, pluss this would be *** as I would want to change the environment of my reflected model as it moved from scene to scene. Surly this should just work as the shader is part of a MSDN tutoral and I would have thought that the XNA development team would not leave out cube maps :) I just cant for the life of me see why it is not working... If you have any other ideas I am all ears :) Thanks in advance :) Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Efficiency of Threads on the 360? Peter D. wrote: To use the threads you simply need to set a thread processor affinity. this does nothing on the PC Is this true on multi core PC cpus Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Im new and im interested in making a game! Wat next Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA Graphics Performance Issues with GraphicDevice We have a ground, buildings, roofs and some meshes. The "map" is 64*64 pixels. We have between 4 or 5 meshes that have about a thousand polygons. We also have one or two static object with a thousand polygons. Nothing really that heavy I would say. Another point that might help you help me would be that on GP that runs shaders 3.0 it runs way smoothly than on mine. regards, Chryso Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Multiuser games? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that networking code wasn't in XNA at this point, so multiplayer games are not presently possible... Maybe I'm thinking of something else, though, so don't quote me on it ( : -SysErr Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Models To me, it looks like your code should work. Although if you simply want to create dupicates of an object it would make more sense to store an array of positions rather than an array of models. You can then simply draw the same Model ten times per frame with each of the unique stored positions. Besides, when you create an array of 10 Models from the same asset name, I believe you end up with 10 references to the same object instead of 10 unique copies. Even if this is not the case, storing an array of redundant models would be a waste of memory. I'm not seeing anything at the moment in your code that looks like a problem. What happens when you try to run it Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Drawing Animated Sprites to the Screen Ah, thanks. I have tried multiple Texture2D Calls before *Shudder* I will remember that. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to load a WaveFront model? Ok, but i'm using the Mobile Direct3D Managed. As I know, this "version" does not support the .X format. So, instead of using the md3dm format that came with the samples, I'm thinking to write my own loader. Could you give me some tips For example, probably my WaveFront model will have a lot of vertices... what kind of structure should I use to keep this data in memory What class should I take a look Can you give me a simple example Of course man, i'm studying a lot :-) Thanks ;) Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - low fps here is my draw func protected override void Draw( GameTime gameTime) { VertexPositionColor [] axes = new VertexPositionColor ; axes[1] = new VertexPositionColor ( new Vector3 (100, 0, 0), Color .Red); axes[3] = new VertexPositionColor ( new Vector3 (0, 100, 0), Color .Green); axes[5] = new VertexPositionColor ( new Vector3 (0, 0, 100), Color .BlueViolet); basicEffect.View = mainCamera.ViewMatrix; basicEffect.Texture = tz[0]; basicEffect.Begin(); foreach ( EffectPass pass in basicEffect.CurrentTechnique.Passes) { pass.Begin(); graphics.GraphicsDevice.VertexDeclaration = decl1; graphics.GraphicsDevice.DrawUserPrimitives< VertexPositionColor >( PrimitiveType .LineList, axes, 0, 3); graphics.GraphicsDevice.VertexDeclaration = decl; graphics.GraphicsDevice.Vertices[0].SetSource(vb, 0, VertexPositionTexture .SizeInBytes); graphics.GraphicsDevice.Indices = ib; graphics.GraphicsDevice.DrawIndexedPrimitives( PrimitiveType .TriangleList, 0, 0, lz * 4, 0, lz * 2); pass.End(); } basicEffect.End(); base .Draw(gameTime); DrawFps(); } where lz is 100 vb = new VertexBuffer (graphics.GraphicsDevice, VertexPositionTexture .SizeInBytes * lz * 4, ResourceUsage .None); vb.SetData< VertexPositionTexture >(pz); ib = new IndexBuffer (graphics.GraphicsDevice, sizeof ( int ) * lz * 6, ResourceUsage .None, IndexElementSize .ThirtyTwoBits); ib.SetData< int >(idz); setuped earlier in loadgraphicscontent Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Good Example XNA 3D Game? Hi all, I want to develop xna game, Who can tell me, where has good example such as how to set light, mesh , mesh move , add hlsl, etc.. best regards, Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - colorvalue in progressive mesh sample Assembly Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC\Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D\1.0.900.0__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.dll It's there already. These are all the references. Microsoft.DirectX Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX mscorelib System System.Drawing System.Windows.Forms The file is dxmutgui.cs Here are the namespace uses. using System; using System.Collections; using Microsoft.DirectX; using Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D; It declares a namespace: namespace Microsoft.Samples.DirectX.UtilityToolkit this is the structure where I get my first error. public struct BlendColor { public ColorValue[] States; // Modulate colors for all possible control states It can't find ColorValue. All the errors occur within dxmutgui.cs or dxmutmisc.cs. ColorValue also does not appear in the object browser. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - membership? important!! darknemesis25 wrote: uhm, when u get a membership for 4 months on xbox , can u still play games when the membership runs out,, cuz if not, this whole thing is a waste and money. The membership allows you to deploy and debug games. Once they're on your 360, you can play them forever AFAIK. darknemesis25 wrote: when ur creating for the 360, can u preview or liek .. play.. ur games on windows b4 sending it over newb question , but i havent tried XNA yet Not for a 360 game, you'd have to create a Windows game and link the code from the 360 game. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - What is a GPU Graphics Processing Unit Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Gaming groups or websites Well the GarageGames have recently opened the Great Games Experiement - a social network for gamers, developers and publishers. I wrote a review of my experiences so far. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Bounding Box of a Model after rotating (and scaling) it. Thanks for the answer CodePfo, yet I fear simply rotating the AABB is not quite what I am looking for. Rotating a model can change a model's AABB considerably. Think of a model shaped like a long tube for instance. When it is positionened along the z-axis it's bounding box is simply an unrounded version of the tube. Position the tube diagonally in the scene and the its bounding box will look completely different. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA games running very slow no, only the DirectX End-User Runtime. I thought only this is requiered. I'm just downloading the SDK an tell you if it works correctly. and yes, every game runs very slow thanks for help! Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Rendering Question thanks for the reply, I am loading the data into a vertex buffer, but it can take up to 10 seconds to render it all. it's not a reasonable time. that is why i'm rendering the vertex buffer data on a texture (only one time), and then i render the texture which takes almost zero time to do. how can I load the info into a mesh and would it solve my problem Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Is XNA the tool for serious game developers. Reviewing the majority of the posts here (XNA vs. C++/DirectX) It is a very powerful and fast development environment, however at the moment its range is limited to the Windows and Xbox 360, meaning that (at the moment ) you cannot develop as easily as you can with C++/DirectX for alternative next-gen platforms (Macintosh (hah, as if), Wii or PS3). I, however, haven't seen many remarks on the possibility to opening this to other platforms. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - "Use of unassigned local variable" error on Xbox360 but not Windows I wonder if, perhaps, Rectangle is defined as a struct in the Windows assembly and a class in the 360 assembly. As a follow-up question, why not avoid the whole issue (in this case) and assign directly to tileRect in your function That way you avoid the copy from myRect to tileRect. Tag: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

Keith Henrickson

Ok, I've got my project building and running on the 360. A friend of mine wanted to see what I was up to, so I moved the source over to an PC hosted XNA project, and got it running there too.

Before I sent the .EXE to him, I double clicked on it, and I just get a message box that says "Application generated an exception that could not be handled."

This works fine under GSE, but doesn't seem to work when clicking directly through Windows.

What am I missing

Re: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine

dczraptor

Make sure you copy over all the files you're using, .exe, .dll, \Content, anything else you're using, not just the .exe

You might also be linking to a file in an absolute path name. In VS, it might work fine because the file is under your main project folder, but if you move the build files, then it will not find the required files anymore.

Re: XNA Framework Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine

Johnnylightbulb

You could also get the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK from the MSDN site and use the CLR Debugger tool (or a non-express copy of VS.NET). Next time it complains about some random exception (and you're trying to run a debug version of your game) you can debug and see what it doesn't like!

Let us know what you find.