I have a game in development in XNA 4.0 + Windows 7. On the Windows 7 OS the game runs with no problem but when I move the project on Win XP with .Net 4.0 installed the game doesn't work. What can be the problem?
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The Windows Phone 7 Developer Beta Tools (which xna is a part of) don't work on windows xp. I think somewhere I read that there shall be a standalone version for xp with xna support only but I I'm not sure if this was already released *you might check out the apphub).
Fge
2010-10-18 12:48:12
Question mentioned Windows 7, not Windows Phone 7. -1
peSHIr
2010-10-18 12:57:29
i sure can read ;) xna 4 beta is part of the phone developer tools though. and the phone developer tools aren't for phone development only but contain vs2010, xna 4, silverlight tools and a phone emulator.
Fge
2010-10-18 13:07:22
On a second thought this maybe wasn't clear: XNA 4 is currently only shipped with the WPDT as they're beta. Once they're released there will be a XNA 4 standalone with XP support too (but no phone support then).
Fge
2010-10-18 13:14:08
@Fge so for any game developed with xna, since xna has been reliesed, xna is a must? Or can you somehow integrate any used xna code in your game? and another question, do you know when the xna 4 stable version is due?Regards,Alex Badescu
Badescu Alexandru
2010-10-18 14:47:49
From a system's point of view, xna is nothing different like let's say .net - a shared library. So your target pc must have it installed of course. Like .net applications don't run if .net isn't installed, neither do xna applications. I guess there are ways to include all xna code in your assembly but that's neither a good way of solving this problem nor the intention of shared librarys at all. I think XNA 4.0 was released a month ago but I'm not up2date with that tbh and I can only find the sdk version.
Fge
2010-10-18 15:02:14
regards Fge, Alex Badescu
Badescu Alexandru
2010-10-18 15:46:07