my blender 2.5 works completely fine, excluding the game engine. when I press P to start the game, blender crashes, opening a window “blender doesnt work anymore” (win Vista 32bit). the game engine works properly in 2.49, so I dont know what could be wrong with the game engine. Since I use blender mostly for games, I have to use blender 2.49, which is stable but I’d like to upgrade, though.
I’ve got a blender 2.5 training dvd which includes blender 2.52, and if I run it from the DVD I can start the game engine by pressing P, but when I install it it crashes. Modelling, texturing, rendering and so on just works fine!
I’ve seen that you can choose different options for installing, when I choose “Installation Directory” blender even crashes when I start it. When I choose “Application Data Directory” I have the problem discribed above (only the GE doesn’t work).
Would it make a difference if I chose “HOME-Variable”?
Note: I’ve seen that other blender users had the same or a similiar problem, so I cant be the only one. But I didnt find any useful solution for that issue.
Hmm that is interesting, I haven’t had that happen. I have Python installed on the system, so it’s possible that may cause it instead of running a bundled pack.
yes, its sth with the game engine, but I have python installed. my idea would be that blender searches for python in the wrong directory, although I installed python in the recommended directory. does blender 2.5x usually just crash when you dont have python installed/have it installed in the wrong directory? Is the game engine so much based on python? since the game engine works perfectly without any problems, I cant imagine what should be so different in the 2.5 game engine.
I admit to not being clear about whether it is necessary to have Python as downloaded from python.org installed on my computer. Obviously I do, otherwise I’d be telling you that I don’t have it, but I don’t know whether I need it there to run blender.
But can you tell us:
Did you see a message that said: blender doesn’t work anymore
If I was to post you a blend that contained a camera, a cube, and a lamp, would blender crash when you pressed the P key?
I don’t think you have to have an installed Python, as Blender comes with the Python libraries necessary to run. Try deleting everything and then playing, or try executing Blender under a different compatibility mode (like Windows XP). Will that make it work? If so, then the problem might be with Windows Vista.
@ Equip: 1) Since I am german I don’t know what the window actually says in an english version of windows, but it is the standard indication window of win vista which comes up when a program crashes.
2) I dont think that will work, as I already testet to run it with the standard scene and with an empty scene.
@ SolarLune: What do you mean with another compatibility mode? I run blender as administrator. Is that what you mean?
No, I mean that you can right-click the Blender executable, and in Properties, there should be a compatibility tab where you can execute the program like it’s an older Windows OS. It probably won’t do a whole lot, but it might work.