Game Maker Community HUB/Game Maker 6 on Windows Vista

Game Maker 6.x is incompatible with Windows Vista natively. This is due to the zlib compression that has been done on the Game_Maker.exe and the Game Maker runner, which cannot be uncompressed in Vista.

Making Game Maker 6 work on Windows Vista
In general, it is believed that Game Maker 6 does not work on Windows Vista. However, there exists a proposed fix that has not been widely confirmed to work, but is worth a try:


 * 1) Navigate to Game_Maker.exe
 * 2) Right click it, choose Properties
 * 3) Go to tab compatibility
 * 4) Check "run this program in compatibility mode"
 * 5) Set drop-down box to win98/winME
 * 6) Check disable desktop composition
 * 7) Check disable scaling on high dpi settings
 * 8) Check run this program as an administrator