I was working on my game engine like normal, and I haven't changed anything but the code itself. As I was coding it I decided to implement a system in which when the camera slides on the ground of the terrain which is defined by a .x mesh, sometimes the octree I had implemented would fail to find a trinormal. So what I did was make the camera perform a bounce type of thing to make it so it wouldn't get stuck when this happend. I recently went to compile it in release and debug mode and I noticed a huge drop in the size of the exe it went from 1.10mbs to 125kb's now this greatly alarmed me. So I tried to run it as normal as a .exe from the folder; it crashed almost instantly; but when I run it from the IDE by clicking start without debugging it runs normally. Could someone please explain what the hell is going on here. I even tried erasing the code that I had put in before just to get it to compile but that didn't even work. This is the command line for its linking (I took it from the MSVC++ IDE) : In my precompiled header I also include the following libraries: I am afraid I might have some how lost my entire 5 month project due to some horrible error; I have backups but they are not as up to date as I would like them to be. [sad][crying][crying][sad][crying][crying] [Edited by - DevLiquidKnight on June 8, 2005 8:31:20 PM]

which compiler are you using, your compiler could be customized to ignore certain errors and there is a different library for release and for debug, at least for some of the libraries so you should double check your documentation, also go to the library folder and if it has (yourlibrary)d.lib thats the debug version of the library hope this helps

The debug and release exe perform the same way I mentioned; im using the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 compiler with DirectX 9.0c SDK.