Thank you everyone for all of your reply's, they have all been very helpful :) Still, I'd love ot hear more. Don't think you have to choose which of the categories I've listed, feel free to make up more if you feel there are more of them. Loving hearing other peoples stories. Myself? I'm in it to learn programming as ...

Hi everyone I'm doing a research paper for University on XNA. I am trying to identify the different types of people who use the XNA framework. I have met people who learn XNA; * Simply for the hobby of it * People who are using it as a stepping stone language into the world of prgramming * A few people who are learning ...

Hi Everyone. I'm in Australia, and according to this link, http://creators.xna.com/en-US/newregionsfordevelopment, Community Games was supposed to go live here on December 15th. [quote] Beginning on December 15, independent, student, and hobbyist developers in Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand will have the opportunity ...

Does this help at all? Dont want to go and get a new video card to try if it's not actually a video card issue. After all, it was working perfectly and suddenly stopped without me doing any adjustments or driver updates. System.ArgumentException was unhandled   Message="The device does not support creating a texture of ...

No, tried that one quite a few times. :( I wonder why it worked for 2 tests then suddenly stopped...

OK, and it's now doing the same. Same error again.

I hadn't touched my graphics card drivers so I'm not sure how it suddenly became an issue. Installed the latest Catalyst drivers though and the problem has now gone :) yay! Thanks!

What is the error that you are getting? Your code looks correct to me. I don't use this.spriteBatch when passing it around, I just use spriteBatch. has your Hero class got the using line? using Microsoft.Xna.Framework; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;

Hi everyone I have a project that I have not played with for a few days. Today I've gone back to work on it. Opening the file and trying to run it, I get an ArguementException error. ArguementException was unhandled The device does not support creating a texture of the given format with the given TextureUsage. Parameter ...

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