

This seems to be a common issue with many 32 bit applications. Problems with 64 bit versions of Windows.īoth Game maker 7 and Game Maker 8 appear to have issues running on the 64 bit versions of Windows. This should allow Game Maker to find a safe writable location for it's internal operation, and allow normal game development. You must then rename the text file to something like GM8.bat and get users to run that instead. (or"C:\Program Files (x86)\Game_Maker8\Game_Maker.exe" on 64bit machines, but this depends where you've installed Game Maker ). "C:\Program Files (x86)\Game_Maker8\Game_Maker.exe"Ĭ:\user_temp is simply a directory where the user has write permissions, and "C:\Program Files\Game_Maker8\" is where you can find the Game Maker executable. Simply create a new text file and add these lines. To get around this, you can redirect TEMP briefly while running Game Maker. This is because Game Maker requires user level access to the directory pointed to the environment variable TEMP and without it, can't build games for testing.

While Game Maker itself will run, the programs being written will not due to how it creates them internally. Many School and Universities lock machines down to keep them more secure, and to avoid viruses and corruption or the base install, and this can cause errors when trying to run GameMaker programs.
