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Blender version 2.71 stopped working
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Well, first time trying to use blender and it doesn't work. When I start blender it says, "Blender has stopped working - Windows is searching for a solution" and then that pop-up changes to, "A problem has caused the program to stop working - Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available". In the small black command prompt that pops up it says, "SyntaxError: Invalid syntax". This is pretty annoying and just want it to work. When I first installed the program I accidentally clicked the USA mirror download. When I realised I had done this I clicked the 64Bit download, downloaded and installed it and this is what happens.

Specs;

GPU - Geforce GTS 450 1.5GB
CPU - intel(r) core(tm)2 quad cpu q8300 2.5ghz
Memory - 8GB RAM
OS - 64Bit Windows 7
Hard drive - 2* 290GB

I'm not sure whether or not the problem I'm having is hardware related or not, please help, would love to use this software.

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• Christopher Rogers (RogersChris) created this task.Sep 26 2014, 11:59 AM
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Bastien Montagne (mont29) raised the priority of this task from High to 90.Sep 26 2014, 1:48 PM
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Thomas Dinges (dingto) added a subscriber: Thomas Dinges (dingto).EditedSep 26 2014, 2:04 PM

Hey,
some things you can check on.

1 Did you install the Visual Studio Runtime? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784 Click on Download, then choose the vcredist_x64.exe.

2 Is your Windows 7 up to date? Service Pack 1 + all updates?

• Christopher Rogers (RogersChris) added a comment.Sep 26 2014, 2:22 PM

Hmm, when I run the vcredist_x64.exe its only options are repair or uninstall. I clicked repair but when i revisit the vcredist_x64.exe there's still and option to repair.

Thomas Dinges (dingto) added a comment.Sep 26 2014, 2:31 PM

Well in this case, you already have it installed. ;)

• Christopher Rogers (RogersChris) added a comment.Sep 26 2014, 2:34 PM

I don't understand the problem I have then.

• Christopher Rogers (RogersChris) added a comment.Sep 26 2014, 3:17 PM
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• Christopher Rogers (RogersChris) added a comment.Sep 26 2014, 3:21 PM

found bundled python: C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.71\python

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
File "C:Python27\Lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 123
raise CodecRegistryError,\

^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

• Christopher Rogers (RogersChris) added a comment.Sep 26 2014, 3:32 PM

Got it workinig

Thomas Dinges (dingto) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.Sep 27 2014, 1:03 AM
Thomas Dinges (dingto) claimed this task.

Ok great. Somehow Blender tried to use your Python2.6 installation on startup.

Martijn Berger (juicyfruit) added a subscriber: Martijn Berger (juicyfruit).Sep 27 2014, 10:10 AM

the environment variables PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME are usually to blame here