I had the same thing happen and what i was told to do and worked was copy the setup.ini to the folder with the game and then you need to do this .
If you are having any of the following problems with The 3D Gamemaker
then please follow the instructions below.
1) The graphics / levels appear totally black
2) The 3D Gamemaker closes down as soon as I do anything
3) Graphics / Textures appear to be missing
You need to modify a text file called setup.ini
This file is in The 3D Gamemaker directory which is usually:
C
rogram FilesDark Basic SoftwareThe 3D Gamemaker
Open the file setup.ini with Notepad. You can often do this by
right-clicking on the file and selecting "Open With" and then
"Notepad".
Locate the lines that read:
vbcreate=0
vbusage=0
and change them to:
vbcreate=4
vbusage=3
Save the file and then restart The 3D Gamemaker. In most instances
this will resolve the issues you were having. If you find that this
fixes the problem but any EXE files you produce fail, copy the
setup.ini file into the same directory as the EXE file you made. This
will fix the problem for your games also.
If this doesn't cure the problem, you can also try changing the following line (also in the setup.ini file), change
windowmode=0
to
windowmode=1
Thats if you are using the 3D gamemaker program .
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