ERROR in action number 5 of Create Event for object oInit: Error defining an external function.

I could run RoR perfectly fine, but today it suddenly stopped working, displaying this message every time I try to start it up. What's going on?

 

It's happened to a couple of people on here before. I don't know the cause, but for some reason trying to play the game again later just fixes it. It might take a while though.

 

I just had it. Closing Firefox fixed it for me.

 

Are you using a shortcut? I find that it works when im not using a shortcut, but it has trouble defining that pesky external function when I use a shortcut to the exe.

 

I... Don't think so? I've already checked several times that it works without Firefox for me and gets the error with Firefox. It's possible there's more than one way to trigger the error...

 

this bug has randomly started happening to me too, which is weird because it was working earlier in the same day

the only thing on my computer that changed since then was a windows update

it's a bit of a pain because it just absolutely wont let me play it now

 

Check the Readme.

 

I have and did what it told me and i still get
In fact i have now:

I am running windows 7 64bit
have tried windows XP compatibility mode
running it as an admin
updated my sound drivers
Followed the read me instructions
I even re-downloaded the game and installed it to a different drive
Sadly none of the above worked for me


I know I could ignore the bug, by hitting ignore 20+ times. Though I lose sound and that just is not fun to play without it
___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 5
of Create Event
for object oInit:

Error defining an external function.

 

I just bought the beta-version and I'm having the same problem but the demo ran fine :c

 

Could it be due to the fact that your game is packaged with (and possibly attempts to use) the wrong bit type of VC++? Like x86 vs x64?

For the record the only program running besides non-essential programs after starting the computer was Steam.

EDIT: As I thought, installing the correct bit version of VC++ fixed the problem immediately. GameMaker may be attempting to poll a version of the redistributable that does not exist because the correct edition (x64) is not installed. I installed x64 version, restarted my comptuer, opened my browser to make sure that had nothing to do with it, and then ran the game. Sure enough it was simply the redist. I would package both redists in the redist folder with a batch file like this:

Code:

@echo off
 
if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%"=="AMD64" goto 64BIT
vcredist_x86.exe /q
goto END
:64BIT
vcredist_x64.exe /q
:END

 

In the vcredist folder i see 2008 and 2010, which one do i get rid of, also when i go to uninstall, i see like 10 different VC++ which on do i uninstall. The problem i have is no music or sound at all. I get the Error in action 5.

 

Same issue I'm currently trying to fix my sound, also which C++ does the game run on?

 

I fixed by making it start with admin and then repairing the vcredist things and then restarting steam