Can't test games on Game Maker?

XdragonSB · Post by **XdragonSB** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:54 pm

Hi, ever since I sold my PC containing Windows, I decided to go with Ubuntu.

Anyway, I was devoted to making games on Game Maker, however, I can't test my game using WINE.

I can use the Game Maker program, but when I click the green or red arrow to test the game, all I get is a blank black screen.

I tried running it in a virtual desktop, but all I get is a screen that only shows me less than half of the entire thing.

Help?

jerreldulay · Post by **jerreldulay** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:05 am

What version of Game Maker are you using? I'd really love to be able to have GM running well on WINE. I can't get GM7 to run at all, I receive some sort of funny dll error. I am able to run gm6, but the games don't run, as you said. I am almost able to run GM4 games... the loading screen comes up but then it won't go any further... Perhaps if we get enough GM users together we can request the net version of Wine have more compatibility with Game Maker or something like that.

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:38 am

jerreldulay wrote:What version of Game Maker are you using? I'd really love to be able to have GM running well on WINE. I can't get GM7 to run at all, I receive some sort of funny dll error. I am able to run gm6, but the games don't run, as you said. I am almost able to run GM4 games... the loading screen comes up but then it won't go any further... Perhaps if we get enough GM users together we can request the net version of Wine have more compatibility with Game Maker or something like that.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8b4fbbe ... f0e8d25f2e

What you should do is make sure that bug reports are filed in the Wine bugzilla, http://bugs.winehq.org

doing a search for game maker yields these two:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13126
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13392

If you can confirm them or give more information then that is helpful, perhaps also debugging the problem to try to provide an analysis of what is going wrong.

XdragonSB · Post by **XdragonSB** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:08 pm

jerreldulay wrote:What version of Game Maker are you using? I'd really love to be able to have GM running well on WINE. I can't get GM7 to run at all, I receive some sort of funny dll error. I am able to run gm6, but the games don't run, as you said. I am almost able to run GM4 games... the loading screen comes up but then it won't go any further... Perhaps if we get enough GM users together we can request the net version of Wine have more compatibility with Game Maker or something like that.

I am running Game Maker 7.

I think I'll try a lower version of game Maker.
Have you tried GM5?