bhouston

It is installed on C:\ here

C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 9.0.794

I got the latest build of Houdini working on a Vista machine (my laptop.) I'll try that same version on my dev machine now.

Damn. The new build fails the same way on my dev machine. I installed it into the default location (that did work on my Vista machine):

C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 9.1.124.10

Thus it appears that my development machine is cursed or jinxed.

Thanks for the reply.

The OS on that machine is Windows XP SP2 (32 bit) with 2 GB of ram. The video card is an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT with 128 MB of ram. My development machine is about as average as you can get these days.

I am downloading the daily build now.

Hi,

I just downloaded Houdini Apprentice on Kim's recommendation. I'm having problems starting it. The issue is incomprehensible to me, and difficult to explain so I have taken three screenshots that capture the issue.

The first screenshot is the initial error on start up:
http://www.exocortex.org/HoudiniStartUpError1.png [exocortex.org]

I had to time that screenshot well since that error message disappears quickly and is replaced by this error message:
http://www.exocortex.org/HoudiniStartUpError2.png [exocortex.org]

Unfortunately these particular error logs are all empty. Except there is one additional crash dump that contains some information. You can see that here:
http://www.exocortex.org/HoudiniStartUpError3.png [exocortex.org]

My computer setup is pretty vanilla. I have, after reading some other posts, totally disabled my development machines firewall. But that doesn't appear to have changed anything. There was one error during the install of Houdini about a font that was already installed. I have rebooted after install just to ensure that wasn't the issue.

Any help is appreciated.

Best regards,
Ben Houston
http://www.exocortex.org/ben [exocortex.org]