[vinys]

Hi Vinys,
I would double check and make sure that both user variables and system variables are setup in environment variables.


Regards,
Mark

Hy Mark,

what do you mean with user variable? I have checked the system variable MAXWELL_ROOT and it is set correct. But i don't have a Maxwell related user variable (only LANG, TEMP, TMP). Should there be one?

- vinys

[mverta]

I doubt it's necessary, but I have a copy of the MAXWELL_ROOT variable in my user environment variables as well. I doubt this would lead to insta-crash, though.

You say that any NL program, MXST, MXCL, or MXED insta-crashes when attempting to load?

_Mike

[vinys]

I doubt it's necessary, but I have a copy of the MAXWELL_ROOT variable in my user environment variables as well. I doubt this would lead to insta-crash, though.

I have made a copy of MAXWELL_ROOT as a user variable, but with no effect.

You say that any NL program, MXST, MXCL, or MXED insta-crashes when attempting to load?

Yes. Other programs like Cinema 4D are ok.

Maybe v1.1 isn't compiled for old Athlons (not Athlon XPs)? I have asked that before in this thread, but didn't get an answer.

- vinys

[tom]

Hi vinys,

If v1.0 is working on your current system but not 1.1, I would strongly suggest making a clean install of windows, not from backup. Athlons shouldn't be problem here.

Best regards,
Tom

[Frances]

...If v1.0 is working on your current system but not 1.1, I would strongly suggest making a clean install of windows, not from backup.

Can you please explain why you are recommending this?

[mverta]

I think Frances' question really would be: If every single thing on your system is working perfectly normally EXCEPT 1.1, why are you recommending this? If the ONLY thing that's changed on a consistently stable machine is installing 1.1, I'd say a complete Windows re-install is probably overkill.

_Mike

[tom]

I think I would say, why everybody else could install and run or vinys is the only Athlon owner here?

[Frances]

I think Frances' question really would be: If every single thing on your system is working perfectly normally EXCEPT 1.1, why are you recommending this? If the ONLY thing that's changed on a consistently stable machine is installing 1.1, I'd say a complete Windows re-install is probably overkill.

_Mike

Yeah, what you said.

[Frances]

I think I would say, why everybody else could install and run or vinys is the only Athlon owner here?

Why not just elaborate on your recommendation? Some of your reasoning may apply to others who are having consistent problems with the install.

[mverta]

I don't think he's made a recommendation yet. "Everybody else seems to be doing fine" isn't really a recommendation.

..and since I'm sure Tom knows vinys isn't the only Athlon user here, I think he might be saying, "the problem is YOU," which may be true, but doesn't help solve anything.

Personally, I was able to replicate the problem, and solved it with the license, but clearly I had a different issue that just LOOKED the same. I'm not running Athlons, unfortunately...

_Mike

[tom]

Since I'm very far away from touching his computer deeply I suggested re-installing Windows first. Maybe this may sound you weird doing that or there could be something else I can say. However, I don't expect a sudden change about this problem with a magical post here depending on my experiences. Not only for Maxwell but it's something well known that Windows is mostly the father of such problems, why not giving it a try first and let's continue trying to get the bug out later, if there's one.

[mverta]

Well, personally, reinstalling Windows would mean at least a day of downtime, on my system... I generally save that for last resort stuff. But that's me.

_Mike

[tom]

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Issue:
1-There's a software doesn't working on a computer due to software itself.
OR
2-There's a OS/hardware cannot run just one specific software due to something obsolete/missing/incompatible on it.

Conclusion:
It's obvious that solving the possibility of case 1 would surely take remarkably longer than giving a change to try case 2. So, what if the solution is case 2. My 2 bytes.

[Frances]

Vinys, have you defragged your hard drive lately? Does an error check come out okay? It's possible that your installation landed on a bad sector. I only say this because you say your athlon is older, so your hard drive might be showing age.

Something that might be worth trying is uninstalling Maxwell (rebooting couldn't hurt), then installing Maxwell to a different folder, or another drive if you have one.

[tom]

In addition, sometimes in the past I had several InstallShield problems due to its corrupt version or something missing about it on the system and most of the time I couldn't succeed renewing/fixing it on my current copy of Windows. Such problems may cause incorrectly extracted files or missing registry records, too.