Hi,

I sent my game, a simple pacman clone, to a programmer friend of mine who is running Vista 64 Ultimate on a Core2 machine with atleast a 7 series GeForce card and a few Gb of RAM. He has verified for me that he has .NET 3.5 SP1 installed, and the XNA 3.1 Redist, yet my game simply tells him it stopped working on startup.

I've read the dependency threads for this, and it seems that is all that is needed. Has anyone else had any experience with Vista 64 related runtime problems, or methods that I could use to track down what is causing the problem, short of sending him the code and getting him to install XNA etc. ?

I have been running vista 64 for ages and have not had any problems. What you could do is add some debug code to the begining of the application and do the checks for yourself, i.e. the correct shader version on the graphics cards.

I found a post by Stephen Styrchak to do something similar, which is to put game1.Run() in a try and MessageBox.Show() any exception text. Sent that off to my friend now, hopefully he'll get the email soon.

He was able to run the exception catcher app with no worries.

He sent me the exception details of the crash in my app. I find it odd that it crashed in kernel32, but I'm guessing this is just a generic error message.

 

Description:

 

 

 

 

Stopped working

 

 

Problem signature:

 

 

 

 

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: ChompMan.exe

Application Version: 1.0.0.0

Application Timestamp: 4a8262d1

Fault Module Name: KERNEL32.dll

Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.18005

Fault Module Timestamp: 49e038c0

Exception Code: e0434f4d

Exception Offset: 0001e124

OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1

Locale ID: 3081

I ended up using the Publish command in VS and he said it downloaded something small, but now it works.