Program crashes on startup

[npissoawsome]

My game runs fine when I run it through visual studio (debug and release) but when I actually go find the .exe and run it, it crashes on startup. Does anyone know how I could possibly debug this, or any ideas on what could cause it?

[Asimov]

Hi npissoawsome,

My guess is this. Seeing as it works in Release and debug and then the exe crashes is it looking for an image file or a sound file that you haven't copied into your release or debug folders?

[Shaki]

in game.cpp go to the constructor that is made there ( the Game::Game( HWND ...etc ) one ) and look at the loading functions, what Asimov says is true, so you need to take the files from the solution folder and plop them beside the exe.

[npissoawsome]

bravo, spot on my bmp's weren't in my folder, I was under the impression that they got compiled into the .exe

[Asimov]

Hi npissoawsome,

With Chillies help I have got my images loading from a resource file, which means they are compiled into my exe. I want to do the same with sounds later, but content to carry on with the game for now heh heh.