sdl program not restarting

[uppercaseguy]

i have literally spent all night trying to ask the user to if he wants to play again pres enter, and when he does press enter, the game restarts but i guess some of the variables doesnt reload properly or i dont know what happens,
can any one suggest me a way of how i should rerun this whole program properly
thanks.

by the way, i did create a function to re initialize everything and call that ftn in the main while loop, so when if any of the 2 player wins he would be prompted a texture to press enter to try again and escape to quit, bu tthat doesnt worked either.

game.initialize(); //to initalize all my variables
        
        while (is_running) {
            ticks_for_caping_fps = SDL_GetTicks();

            while (SDL_PollEvent(&main_event)) {
                if (main_event.type == SDL_QUIT) {
                    is_running = false;
                    break;
                }

                //check if both players are selected
                check_if_both_players_selected(main_event, state);

                if (main_event.type == SDL_KEYDOWN) {
                    if (both_player_selected == true && sound_flag == false) {
                        switch (main_event.key.keysym.sym) {
                            //if user wants to start the game
                        case 13://enter key numeric code
                            state = fighting;
                            gb_music.load_background_music(state);
                            gfight_sound.load_sound_effect("sounds/fight.mp3", 0);

                            player1.create_player(player_selected[0]);
                            player2.create_player(player_selected[1]);
                            sound_flag = true;
                        }
                        break;
                    }
                }

                player1.handleEvent(main_event);
                player2.handleEvent(main_event);
            }

            SDL_SetRenderDrawColor(grender, 255, 255, 255, 255);
            SDL_RenderClear(grender);

            //load main menu
            game.load_main_menu();

            game.start_game(main_event);

            SDL_RenderPresent(grender);
            capfps(ticks_for_caping_fps);//fps would not go higher than 60
        }

[jonnin]

debug it, step through what all your variables are in the second run. You just missed something... note that often in such cases objects that were created with a ctor need a reset that does the same thing the ctor does to any values.