I can build & compile OK but when I want to run the level the engine is on for about a nano-second then disappears.

I have followed the install documentation to the letter.....but still happens. What gives?

TIA

You may need to upgrade your DX version possibly.
What are your OS specs?
Pre 2000K windows requires a patch which can be found on the downloads page.

LOL, Hi...that was swift

Dell Dimension 9200, ATI Radeon x1300, DX10, Vista Home Premium. I have my reg copy of 6.40 with the 6.50 update installed but not running at the moment. I am at a loss with this. My 6.50 work imports nicely but I can't get anything to run - not even a hollow cube. Nothing. Nada.

Thanx

I dont know if thats the problem but on the bug list is mentioned that 6.50 was pulled because of 2 severe bugs, so better update to 6.60.

If the engine exits immediately start it with -diag and then in the acklog.txt youll find whats wrong.

Have you tried to run as Administrator or perhaps running the Application directly as The Administrator?
Many problems have been reported with GStudio due to Vista running under a heavy security blanket and subsequently resolved via running as administrator.

Hi & thanx all for guidance\help

I am running as admin. I have loaded it into an old XP machine with DX9 and it works perfectly but render times take forever. I suspect that on the Dell it is an openGL problem. Incidentally, those two last responses bring up a few pointers. Firstly, and feel dumb asking this, how do you restart the engine with -diag?. Secondly, where is the 6.60 update please? I wonder if one of the bugs is having to launch the engine by pressing 0 (zero) with 6.50.

Finally,and this is going to sound bizarre but on the old XP machine I hit my key.exe and pointed it to the GStudio7 folder and I am regged with USERID & PASSWORD....not my name like in 6.50. I was under the impression that GS7 was a payable update.

Confused!!!

Thanx for reading and regards,

S.H. (wayzel)

This explains your problem: Attempts to unlock a trial version with a wrong key renders the version unusable. You can't start the engine anymore after that.

If you were to read and fully understand my post, you will see that GS7 runs fine on XP machine. It's the DEMO version, with no keys added, just the vanilla downloaded GS7 DEMO, that wasn't working on a Vista machine.

Ok, then you should follow the suggestion to use -diag. Enter it in the engine options field when you start it from WED, and then check the acklog.txt file.

I had same problem. ))) Open Options/Preferencies and REMOVE -eq from command line arguments. Then work all good under Vista x64 Ultimate too.