Previously Good PI Now Not Starting

[Alan Lorence]

Did you try “reset default settings”?

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Reber Clark]

Hi Alan,

Hello,

Yes I tried that. It will not start – despite reboots, resetting to defaults, use software rendering etc.

Particle View works just fine – no problems.

My video card is a Radeon HD 5800 Series

My processor is an Intel Core i7 980x

Help!

Reber Clark

In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice – but in practice there is.

[Reber Clark]

Alan,

I remembered that I updated my display drivers – the monitors are two Dell U 2410s. Could this be the problem? Windows 7 was using its own drivers before.

I am thinking of doing a reinstall of PI3.

But it is weird that Particle Viewer is working.

Waiting for advice.

Thanks,
Reber Clark

In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice – but in practice there is.

[Reber Clark]

FYI to all concermned – Alan advised me to add PI to the Data Execution Prevention list:

Right click on ‘My Computer’ and choose Properties. In the Advanced tab/panel, select the “Settings”
button in the Performance pane. Choose the “Data Execution Prevention” tab and switch DEP so that it is enabled only for essential Windows programs or add particleIllusion to the exception.

Now it works great! Thanks Alan.

In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice – but in practice there is.

[Reber Clark]

One more thing – I had to also add PI render to the DEP list to run it separately.

In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice – but in practice there is.