I just bought a new system but unfortunately unable to run Blender. When I fire it up, I see the command line pop up but immediately goes away in one second. It’s hard for me to see the message but after so many tries, I saw: “Device Init Failed”.
I’ve uninstalled Blender and made sure everything is removed, re-downloaded it, made sure the build is for the right architecture (64bit), and also updated my video card drivers.
…I also tried going down a version (2.73). This time I don’t even see the command line window open, I get this…
I’ve also noticed Blender does not store any error log files at start up (not that I know of), so I used Windows Event Viewer and I got an event id (1005):
I’ve also updated to the latest version of Python. There’s no way I can get Blender running :no:
Oh and I did find out there was a crash log file that is created, this is what I found, and I’m starting to think the problem has to do with Python?
Try opening blender from a console window, and show what happens. Something like:
blender -d --verbose > C:\Users[your username]\Documents\log.txt
If I remember Windows correctly, this should start blender and register a log in you Documents folder. That log should provide enough info for somebody to have an idea.
On it, looking into how to open Blender via cmd line, I’m more of a Linux user. Blender doesn’t REQUIRE Service Pack 1 right, because I don’t have it installed. I’ll download it just in case, I don’t see anywhere in the system requirements that indicates the need of SP1.
It was definitely a Python problem. If anybody else runs into this issue, here’s the solution:
Download the latest version of Python (3.4.3 today), install it, and head on over to the dir C:\Python34 or wherever you installed Python. In there you’ll probably see two lib folders, one in capital letters and another in lower. Copy the uppercase folder.
In your Blender installed folder and inside the version folder (in my case 2.74), you’ll find a python folder with a lib folder. Replace that folder with the Lib folder you got from C:\Python34.
Remember to rename the folder from Lib to “lib” since Blender expects the word in lowercase at start up. Fire up Blender and (hopefully) enjoy. It worked for me.
