• Debugging

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1. Debugging Game Code

Debugging Game Code

If you're working with the game code, you can quickly setup Visual Studio to debug your code as a regular application. There are several ways to do this, here's one of them.

The following assumes you've installed Quake 4 to C:\Quake4, and the SDK to C:\Quake4_SDK

1. Right click the Game project in the Solution Explorer and select Properties.

2. Setup a post-build step to copy your gamex86.dll to your Quake 4 root directory; you can use the commandline xcopy $(TargetPath) c:\quake4:

   • Debug Settings

3. Re-build your game DLL to make sure the post-build step is performed, and you should be all set hit F5 and start debugging (default settings)