[Reber Clark]

Nevermind figured it out. Button in mixer with gear and “mute” was pressed.

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

[Reber Clark]

Hi. I have been able to download the emitters but the updates to the three programs is where I get the “Bad Zip Error” then PI crashes and I get an error message stating “another copy running?” I have PI 3.0 which runs fine. The update I would like is 3.0.9 as well as the PI Render and Particle View updates. Thanks for any and all info. I am running Windows 7 Pro 64bit.

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[Reber Clark]

Thank you Alan, I thought so. And thank you for hanging in there with me on that extended support issue I had a week or so ago.

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[Reber Clark]

Figured it out. While dealing with other pI3 issues I deleted these libraries OUTSIDE of pI3. That was the mistake. Therefore the “delete library path” button did not show up in the library manager and I was stuck. My solution was to re-add the library paths – each with a copied emitter in them – outside of pI3. Then in the library manager the “delete library path” button appeared and I could delete those paths. I then deleted the folders form my hard drive.

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[Reber Clark]

Hi Alan,

I have PI 3.0.4.1 ans PI render 3.0.7.

I tried to install the new updates and at the end of the process I received an error message:

File Damaged (is another copy already running?)

I tried again after a clean boot and got the same result.

If I recall correctly when I installed PI on my new Windows 7 Pro 64bit machine I had to change a setting in Windows or add PI to a menu inwindows to allow the thing to run. Could this be the problem?

All help appreciated. – Reber Clark

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[Reber Clark]

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

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[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.

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[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

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[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

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[Reber Clark]

A few weeks ago PI worked fine on my Windows 7 Pro 64 bit machine. Now it will not start – no screens of any sort, nothing in TAsk Mgr. HELP!

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