I hope everyone who reads this knows the drill. You read about a fantastic looking game, you download it, only to find when you run it, it announces with sadistic glee 'Unexpected error occured when running the game'.

Some people believe its a graphics card thing, sometimes a directX thing. For a lucky few of us, it turns out to be a sound thing.

I have already done this on both my own pcs and managed to fix the error for a friend on his aswell using this simple method: (note: I'm using windows XP instructions, but hopefully you other OS users can figure it.)

Go into Control Panel - Sounds Speech and Audio Devices.

Click Sounds and Audio Devices.

At the bottom there should be a sector named "Speaker Settings", hit the advanced… button under this.

It should come up with Advanced Audio Properties, there should be at the bottom a "Speaker Setup:" option, set it to "No Speakers".

There! You're done! If this works you should still be able to hear sound, and no longer error in game maker. Should this not work for you, I appologise, it will then likely be a Graphics card or DirectX error.

In other news, Bounce's World, my awsome project, is getting near to completion, I've just finished the final boss, I have very little left to do now! Unfortunately, I'm being distracted by Sapphire Tears a lot, I've finally managed to hold an SSS rank overnight. Go me!