render help

hi. new to unity to bear with if dont get the correct terms. i have created a little game and wish to export it as an exe to meet my clients requirements. in unity game runs perfect everything works. when go to build settings. click build. the tab that says windows/mac currently says windows. i let it build and leave it to it. come back and find an exe and a _data folder. when i run the exe nothing happens almost like theres nothing there, tried moving the exe to within that _data folder and got greeted with

There should be 'xxproject_Data'
folder next to the executable

so im completey stuck cant get my exe to run and yet everything seems correct all build settings seem correct. am i missing something. fully expecting this to be a drag exe into a folder or something. using unity 4. thanks any help greatly appreciated

 

looked at others online and they put the exe in the data folder and works fine yet i still get this error. really stuck now into what to do

 

Like you said "There should be 'xxproject_Data'
folder next to the executable"
Thats how unity works , no way around it.

Are you sure that you have set the correct scenes to build?
Does the windows show up at all?

 

I would bet on this being the issue, it's a pretty easy one to miss. Check here if you need to know how to do this