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First go here:
http://forums.gamemaker.nl/index.php?showtopic=280090&hl=#

To fix the Failed to set data for '' error and registration problems

Make sure you to this before registering/purchasing but ultimatelly you will need do this if you registered without applying this fix first and GM goes from pro to lite. Do not apply if you are registered and the registration sticks and you have the data error still, you may break things then.

This is by no means an approved solution. It worked for me, that's all I can vouch for. Try the softwrap solution first:

http://forums.gamemaker.nl/index.php?showt...dpost&p=1942420


Right click the gmaker7 setup and click run as administrator when installing.

Righ click the GM Icon on desktop, click properties. Click Shortcut, Click Open File Location. It`s a quick way to get to the installation folder...

Right click Game_Maker application, click properties, Click compatibility, Check the Run this program as an administrator box...

Do the same for all other exes that may be there, At this point there is only the uninstal.



Note: In any case, make sure Game_Maker.exe has the Run as administrator flag set. I just had a problem with another program that needed the setting, Simply running it's setup as admin did not do the trick, the application installed did not have the flag set.

If you have multiple users, each user must have the admin permission.
Tried removing the run as admin once registered an tried another user (non admin) but the permission were still set to admin because I installed it in admin mode... Vista asks for an admisnistrator password when user run the program. Unfortunatelly, Vista thinks the password is invalid at that point. I did not try to reinstal normally and then set the admin flag. I don't want to loose my registration.
or
If vista asks you for permission to run the program turn UAC Off.
With your admin account, Go to control panel, User accounts, Turn User Access Control on and off... On my computer it asked the question for almost everything I clicked on. This fixes that. Not as secure as with UAC but I never needed this level of control anyway. I am the sole user and I have a good firewal and a good virus scanner.
I did and now every user can run the registered GM. If you have never had proplems with multiple users on your machine over the last 5 years, you'll know that this Vista feature is way too much (Or simply crap). I never had more than one user on my machine (me). Even my regular user (me) with admin level access (Only I am admin, no other user on my machine) was being asked to allow/disallow execution for almost everything I clicked on. UAC is crap (until everyone complies that is).

Anyway. Hopefully Yo-yo will come out with the right setup program/GM code fix to provide a more seamless solution. Probably something as simple as changing where the data is written in the registry.

This is if the games freeze when you press play. Update DirectX even if you have 10 (Vista has 10)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en
Don't forget to reboot your machine. I had trouble with my laptop not doing a hard reset. When it did, things started to run.

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OK, I could not run GM6.1 on Vista at all so I got 7

7 Loaded games but would not run them
Hung at the Preparing sounds part of the load screen
Hung if I pressed the play button in the sound window (confirming the sound related problem)

I have directx 10 but I did install MS end user directx using the web setup
It did not upgrade anything but it did add the directx SDK. I don't know why, I did not run the developer's install. Stroke of luck, it did fix the game playing part.

I still get a
Failed to set data for ''
error right before the nag screen

And in the code window, there is a black box where the applies to: text was and a black box after the self, other, object radio buttons. Not a big deal.

Anybody knows what the error above is? I am scared to register, I am concerned the thing will hang at some other point in some registered feature. Still, only 20 bucks but still. Does anyone else use GM7 not registered and get that error above?

Any registered GM7 and vista people out there? Any problems?

Also, what the difference between purchase and upgrade? Anybody purchased online yet? Any problems?

Anyway, I'm possibly overly paranoid tonight...

Cheers!

hey.. another vista user that can't get it to work, although your problem sounds to be different from mine. My GameMaker itself works perfectly fine, yet i can't run any programs through it, nor can i run any compiled .exe's. It doesn't give me an error at all, just tells me it didn't run.

I purchased the thing too. I have no idea as to the problem, but i tried emailing support.; just haven't gotten an answer back.

I get the same error.
Also it seems that though I've activated the program through the Activate product screen, GM7 still runs in Lite mode.
Still awaiting any sort of response on this.

Here. try what I did, run the setup. You'll only get 7 megs of SDK installed in the end but it fixed my problem. It left directx 10 intact.

Don't forget to reboot your machine. I had trouble with my laptop not doing a hard reset. When it did, things started to run.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

I was afraid of that, buying and not have access to the full features

what setup are you refering to? the directX installer? i've done that enough for other reasons, though i tried that link you gave. didn't change anything

The installer froze on my laptop that has Vista. I'm going to wait for it to respond before I do anything else.

-DF81
EDIT: It works now, but the registration page fails to load.

The purchase blows up on the second page. It thinks there is no internet connection, right after it loaded the payment method screen LOL

The ugrade screen wants me to log in or sign up. I can't log in with the information I gave it before, not can I sign up with my user name.... And it does not remember the info I entered comming back... Amateurs.

Also, when I click the upgrade, I kills my current browser window and all the stuff I typed in creating a post...

To fix the Failed to set data for '' error

Righ click icon, click properties. Click Open File Location.

Right click GM application, click properties, Click compatibility, Check the Run this program as an administrator box...

Ultimately, Right click the gmaker7 setup and run as administrator when installing.

Make sure you to this before registering/purchasing


It's probably trying to save registry information in an area it's not allowed. Or an ini in a folder reserved for the operating system.



It may have failed to save the entry because of security. Try my fix above. And see if you can register again.

It also fixed the invalid page 2 problem I had. I'll try to register tomorow.

Cool, the message no longer appears, but I can't register because it says I've already used the key.

Well, I bet when you get another key it will work. But it's just an educated guess.

ive purchased gm7 via paypal and it worked fine straight away, maybe its just a odd one for you :|

But you probably don't have Vista, do you??

I get the same exact problems. Every time I load it, it comes up with [Failed to set data for ""] message, and still runs in Lite. I typed the code in correctly, but each time it says that I already successfully used that code. It was supposed to Email me with a confirmation, but it still hasn't done that.

Stupid Vista.

Ultimately, Right click the gmaker7 setup and run as administrator when installing.

Note: In any case, make sure Game_Maker.exe has the Run as administrator flag set. I just had a problem with another program that needed the setting, Simply running it's setup as admin did not do the trick, the application installed did not have the flag set.

OK, I just purchased. I all works.

You need to set the run as admin before purchasing/activating

The Vista Fix... Top of thread

i discovered that i recieve the "" error when i turn on the protection warning and such in Vista. But i am already registered and purchased up. Reinstalling over the program does not help, and the fix provided does not work.

any thoughts?

(Does anyone else think it's funny, in a twisted way, that the whole point of GM7 was to get proper Vista support, and yet apparently the DRM for it didn't bother getting proper Vista support? ANY developer paying the tiniest bit of attention to the Vista specs knew about the Limited User accounts. That was one of the big huge deals about Vista.

Yoyo needs to spank softwrap hard for providing such crappy support on their DRM.)

Getting proper vista support is complicated... So many different settings. Maybe they tried it with UAC turned off or on a machine with one user as admin level... Many DRM try to hide themselves and their settings deep within the system's information. These cheap (useless) techniques will fail under Vista.

Anyway, turning UAC off fixes a few more problems. Why would MS add another level of access is beyond me. This feature is what we call overkill and only useful if total stangers have access to you computer wich they don't unless you are running a net cafe or something.

hey there i nhave vista too, and your guide fixed my problem right away. But it create a new one too.. Now, windows says that Gamemaker is an unknown program, with means that I will have to agree that I wants to run it, each time I open it. I guess my new step should be that i told windows that gamemaker is a safe program, but I dont know how to do that. Any help?
btw.. what do you guys thinks of vista, I personally thinks that its amazely annoring that I cant run "Worm world party" and that I will have to wait to get "itunes".. but thats just my opinion.
- Jenner

I still can't get registered to work. I used the Vista Fix, but it just got rid of the "" error. It's probably because I had tried to register before I ran it as an Admin. I even tried to use my old computer, but it's so old, Microsoft disowned it, and GM7 isn't compatible. I guess I'll just have to wait for Yoyo Games to clean things up and hope that they can fix it. Or that Mr. Gates can fix Vista with a new service pack soon.

--Bla, Falco

i'd say I think it SUCKS but I wasn't silly enough to install it!

As I posted somewhere else, contact SoftWrap if you problems with the DRM. They are normally very responsive (though probably not during the weekend).

Mark

hmm.. could somebody explain to me what a DRM is, and tell me if I should contact Softwrap?
I guess the reson why we have so many problems is that we are running a new-untested-program in a new-untested-windows..
- Jenner

nope... just kidding! I don´t know what DRM is, but if you have problems, it is a good idea to contact Softwrap. Just wait t´ill monday!

Like my post said, Turn off UAC. It won't ask you then. With you admin account, Go to control panel, User accounts, Turn User Access Control on and off... On my computer it asked the question for almost everything I clicked on. This fixes that. Not as secure as with UAC but I never needed this level of control anyway. I am the sole user and I have a good firewal and a good virus scanner.



Yep, the registration failed because it was not admin when saving the bits specifying that you registered in an admin section (or the tool used to do it needed admin access). Run the setup as admin too. And make sure every exe in the installed folder has the Run as admin flag checked too. When you purchase or apply the code yoyo will give you, it should work.


Vista? Yep. too much crap now. You need to be a network security expert to run it now.

Well that is an solution, but what if I wants to keep the UAC? Should I just wait it gm 7.1? I mean.. with so many errors, It must come out soon. Or atleast I hope it will.

Hello everybody

After 3 days, I succeeded in registration under Vista, but got the "" error each time I was starting the program.
So, after reading your posts, I tried to run the gm exe as admin.

You know what? It cleared my registration!!! Incredible. I'm in lite mode now.
Of course I tried to register again, but yoyo forms doesn't want because my gm7 key has already been used (It's true, but has been lost).

I wrote a (10th?) email to admin yoyo.... and will wait for a new (x) days....

ahhhhh....

My softs, in gm5.0 so (still) running under vista, but better under XP:
http://perso.orange.fr/azprocede and
http://perso.orange.fr/azprocede/azballes

A french guy.

I consider my fix a last resort. I updated my post accordingly.



Yes, hopefully Yoyo will make changes to be fully complient and fix it so you don't have to try this fix. As I said in the main post...



Sorry to hear that. Like I implied, after registering, I did not mock arround as it was obvious it would be risky then. I made a point to tell people that directly now, thanks to your post.

Not very usefull. I contacted them (softwrap) on saturday, as admin at yoyo.
They answered first, end of monday! But only to tell me to contact yoyo.
Who hasn't answered yet to my problem, on tuesday: I've lost my registration since... saturday, 10h after registering, just because I tried to turned on "execute as admin" gm7 after registering and the key no longer works (already been used, it said).

I still wait.

PS: By the way, Mark, I really love your software, Congratulations. I've done a big one too concerning chemical engineering dynamic simulations (~3 years of work on gm5.0), if you want to see...

go to http://perso.orange.fr/azprocede and tell me what you think of!

Not sure if this has been mentioned anywhere or not, but I've just noticed that I don't have any text on the tabs when I create a new object:

I'm running Vista Ultimate 64bit with an 8800GTS graphics card and the 100.65 drivers.

I'm also running the latest versions of DX (just updated them to make sure). Any hints greatly appreciated

I haven't seen that. But I sometimes do get black boxes in the code editor where text "Applies to" should be.

I get both the black boxes around "applies to" in the code editor, and the failed to set data for " error

Edit: I tryed to run as admin, and the error disappered

the "applies to"-problem:


PS: I don't know if this is the right place 2 post this -.-

I've had that, and I also get the "Applies To" text overwriting the icons just to the left of where the text should be.

So do I, black box also....

Concerning the gm7 registration I've lost after turning "execute as admin", the more funny is that I finally decided to uninstall gm7. Sometime after, I turned out UAC (user account control under vista). The next day, I re-installed to try te register again, but it was already registered!!! Can you believe it?
Anyway it's nice.

Last but not least, this question about vista:
When I re-size a GM window or when I switch to full screen, display of text (drax_text), lines (draw_line), or sprites containing text is very pour. The extrapolation is so bad that it becomes unconfortable to read (I'll post an image to show), where its done very well under XP.
Someone is observing this problem? or having the beginning of a solution?

Thanks for your help

Well, drawing fonts has always been a problem in GM (with me anyway). If I add a font, it looks nice in the interface but when GM draws it in a game it's blocky. Even if I add a large font. And draw it without stretching it up or down, it's blocky.

I always assumed it was because I was on a laptop

I also turned off UAC. I haven't looked back since Just too many things to allow to run. Just like in the Mac commercial.

I'm so not going to install vista....

I don't have a lot of of problems with Vista, and I like it

Vista itself is fine. It's the shoddy attempts at compatibility from the application developers that are causing the headaches.

It's not like there weren't beta versions of Vista available for months to check against....

(I realize this is slightly off-topic...)

To clarify mark's post (What is DRM, anyway?), DRM stands for digital rights management. This website gives a nice detailed explanation of Windows Vista's implemented DRM.

I've never had any problems drawing fonts with XP, I haven't tried it on a laptop though (I've noticed on my laptop, however, that the booting screen is a bit distorted, right after formatting it... but hours of system updates and some display settings changes fixed the problem).

Anyways, I'm sure all of the current GM-Vista issues will be solved before pigs end up flying

Well, I opened a GM6 non registered file today. GM went from pro to lite... I quit and restarted, everything was fine again.

Now, every once in a while, when I run GM, I get the upgrade screen and I am lite. I cancel and quit the program. When I run it again it's pro. Weird crap going on there.

I am running Windows Vista Home Premuim. I am using gamemaker 7 without any problems what so ever

About the fix for "Failed to set data for " ". Run in administrator mode. Disable UAC.

Here is a solution for someone who forgets to take his key with him when he leaves his house:

Leave the door open!

Have a good day.

Wherever you are Nick... THANK YOU!!!!

However.. He took his damn time...

Add me to the list of people who have finally have their gm7 problems solved!

its just your computer i think.

You have a better solution, post it. Otherwise...

That is a terrible analogy.

Mine is a car. Someone put the key in the door are you the one who inserted the key in the door?
Someone started the car. Are you the one who started the car?
...
Someone is applying the brakes. Are you the one who is applying the brakes?
...crash.
Firemen are trying to save you from the car wreck. Should I let them in?... Hello, can you click OK? Hello!?...


??

I'm still using 6.1, and I'm also still using Windows XP (when I'm not using Linux, that is ), but I'm hoping to distribute some of my creations made with Game Maker sometime in the future, so I've got a couple questions:

Do executables outputted by GM 6.1 run at all in Vista?

And do executables outputted by GM 7 always run properly in Visa? Or are there problems with executables, like there is with the Game Maker client itself?

No!

There is a converter that will allow the exe output from 6.1 to run under Vista.



For the most part yes, there has been the occasional complaint of 7.0 games not running under Vista. I suspect the causes to range from crap hardware, drivers, misconfiguration.

Like Paul said...

The reason I started this thread was because GM7 did not work on my Vista. I have a very high end 2006-2007 laptop.

Games would not work either until I updated my directX 10 with the (same!?) directX 10 from MS.

Same problems as many games I suspect. It's the same BS as it ever was. To play games, make sure you have everything up to date.

I don't really know how relevant this is to this topic but sum of tha drawing functions in GM7 don't work in vista. For example when i was running GM7 on XP I wrote scripts that perfectly emulated the Word 2003 Menu system drawing style but as soon as i loaded the file on vista the menu's looked like they had been drawn in paint by sum1 wif no hands.
For instance here is part of the Menu Button Code:

In this case the rectangle's x and y coords are actually drawn x-1 and y-1 and tha x2 and y2 coords are drawn sumfin like 2 pixels past where they are supposed to be. Its really annoying. Why is it not drawing from where its told to.

To be more clear if i were to write

drawing actually begins from x-1,y-1 and finishes at x+Width +2, y+Height+ 3!!!.

Is any1 else getting strange things like this????

You guys have to make sure that the directx10 you guys have was also packaged with the directx9 package because that would explain all of your problems if you don't have dx9 installed because they aren't backwards compatable :X

Gm doesn't use DX10