Windows Preferences

The Windows preferences have the following options:

• Visual Studio location: This option is for pointing GameMaker to the Microsoft Visual Studio installation on the build PC.
• Default packaging type: When building a final Windows executable package, you can choose between creating either an installer (using NSIS) or a compressed ZIP file that will have the game and any additional files within it. By default you will be shown a dialog to choose between these two options on compile, but you can set this preference to always use one or the other. Note that when this option is set to Show Dialog, in the actual dialog window that pops up on compile, enabling "Remember Packaging Option" will set this preference to the option you select.