I don't have this problem any more. A while ago I lost my entire registry, so I had to reinstall everything, but this time I installed the .NET framework before installing XNA Game Studio. Now everything works fine. So if anyone else here has this problem, try uninstalling XNA, installing .NET 1.1, and then reinstalling XNA.

I live outside the countries supported by Xbox LIVE, and I would like to be able to personally develop games for Xbox 360. All I need is to be able to deploy games to the console - I don't need to be able to submit them or anything like that. As for a Creators Club membership, I can use a trial account with DreamSpark. Now, as far as I can ...

I've been looking for a good book on XNA. I came across two books that seemed to be worth picking up, but they seem to have a lot of overlapping topics, so I'd rather buy just one of them. The books are: XNA 3.0 Game Programming Recipes: A Problem-Solution ...

I already has the .NET 2.0 runtime installed. That doesn't seem to be the problem.

In case you were going to ask, yes, I've read the sticky. It didn't help, though. Even though I have the .NET Framework 1.1 redist and its SP1, as soon as I turn on XACT, it crashes. I've tried running XACT in compatibility mode for XP, I've tried running it as admin, and I've tried both at once, but to no avail. The ...