Hi guys,

I have created a game in xna which i have tried to publish then send to some freinds for them to try and play. The process ends up with their PC's downloading some files to result in the computer telling them error application must close.

I wanted to know if theres some thing im  doing wrong and if any body could help me with this problem. Just need people to test my game before i put it out there and not every one i know has XNA installed!

Have you gone through this and this?

You need the XNA redistributable for the games to run as well as DirectX9.0c.

If your friends are running XP rather than Vista or 7 they may need to upgrade to the latest version of the .NET framework. The .NET framework is part of the windows update, however its optional rather than mandatory so you will need to select it from the list of optional updates when visitng the windows update site.

I have XNA im the one making the game but wen i publish the game and send it to a friend they cant play it!

Did you even look at the two links that were provided above?!?

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I have XNA im the one making the game but wen i publish the game and send it to a friend they cant play it!

We got that from your first post..

I've posted a brief guideline and the guy before me posted the exact links to solve your problem... if you've tried that and that doesn't work. Then come back and try again.

Make sure the other PC's have comparable video cards with enough RAM.  I've run into this problem myself.

Hi guys

I have now got my game to install, I have all the .netfarme work doenloads i can possibly get, When i run the application on my desktop it works as i have xna sdk installed on it, this wa also true of my laptop before i removed it to test this. As expected it now doesnt work when it runs it says your game has encountered an error and needs to close, can anyone help.

ps if you have a sample published game you can send so i could look to see if im missing any files / or discrepencies, that would be fab .

Alright...please follow the given steps on the given links, by UberGeekGames...
To summarize; On every computer where you want to play your XNA game on, you must install the XNA redistributable and prerequisites

Just follow the links and the given steps...and if it still doesn't work..you should come back and rephrase your question..

good luck!

Hi again

I have tried all that has been said maybe im dumb idk but its just not having it, please help. i need to distribute my game :(