I-Deas 8 XP installation

[RodYoung1]

Hi,

i've recently installed the above on XP and despite spending many years as an Ideas sys admin, I can't get over this problem:

The application fails to start. The command prompt stops at "You are running Ideas with the OGL driver" as I would expect but nothing happens after that. I've checked everything twice and all seems fine.

I've tried running in X3D to no avail.

Any ideas?

 

[RodYoung1]

I've already tried using -dx3d in the command file. It still says "you are running Ideas using the Open GL driver".

Hmmm...

ps. I was a Unix sysadmin for 6 years.

Thanks for taking the time to try to help

 

[hinterneder]

k.

since IMS8 likely didn't support XP (as IMS9 only supports it provisionally), I think that Ben may have been on the right track above.

have you tried setting the compatibility for ALL the various exe's/script's/etc, or only some?

Also, am assuming, but did you check the original 'home directory' location(s) to see if there were any files that may have been left behind? [like in C:\Documents and Settings\ or where-ever]

-e