Hello,
I just started teaching Blender to my high school students, and proceeded to install 2.41 on all of the Windows XP SP2 machines in the lab. On 8 machines out of 15, Blender will not run.
After clicking the icon, the program appears to have been initiated, but the viewport flashes for a split second, and then the program quits completely.
All the machines have on-board video cards (32MB), AMD Athlon 2000-2300, and 256 RAM.
What am I missing, and what can I do to make Blender run?
I had a similar problem, but on my Mac, so I’m not sure if the same solution will work for you. In my case, I installed a version of Blender that needed Python 2.4, and my machine had Python 2.3. I downloaded the other version of blender that came with 2.3, and it started up. Don’t know if that’s the problem on your PCs, but it might be worth checking out–maybe those machines have a different version of Python.
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yeah I’m facing a similar prob - think it is to do with Python anf version breakage.
It seems every piece of software wants a different version of Python and every Python version breaks completely without any fallback (just my experience and the headaches it has given me)
All the machines have on-board video cards (32MB), AMD Athlon 2000-2300, and 256 RAM.
I’m guessing that your on-board video cards do not have opengl support. If the cards do support opengl, try the usual solutions: reducing color depth, turning off anti-aliasing, updating drivers, etc. Browse the forums for hints. Another possibility is the cards do not have enough memory.
On Windows, a minimal set of Python modules are built into the application, so this is NOT a Python problem. (On OSX, Python is linked dynamically, which means that you need the correct version of Blender to match whatever Python is on your system).