st0per

After a long browse on this forum I eventually found my answer. If you are experienceing similiar problems i advice you to search for System Variable on here. I just added one with a value of1. This had something to do with my graphics card.

Thank you all for your help


Steve

Stremik
Radeon cards is a very bad choise for running Houdini on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ATI's OpenGL support for their consumer cards is only good for running some of OGL based games but not Houdini.
The best you can do is create a system variable(Control Panel/System/Advanced/Enviroment Variables) called HOUDINI_OGL_SOFTWARE and set it's value to 1. This will ensure that Houdini doesn't use your card and it will work flawlesly. However, this means that main CPU will be used instead of your graphic card but since your processor is preaty fast, you should be fine for most of the time.

Just as I was a bout to pull my last starnd of hair out!

Thank You!

Steve

I had the same problem with versin 6.1.280.

If you delete all *.*hip files in the TEMP directory then run. This sorted out the problem for me, however Houdini now freezes on startup.

Is it worth going up or down a version?

Thanks

Steve