Demonwise Posted January 3, 2013 Posted January 3, 2013 I once again ask to draw upon the brain power of the collected masses of Lovers Lab to help me with a problem that I probably caused by my own stupidity. So yesterday out of the blue I tried to start up Blender (ver. 2.49b) and it did its loading and all that jazz but then the loading screen didn't go away. I thought that was odd. Checked task manager and it said that the program was still responding so I switched back to Blender to see what was going on. I noticed that whenever my mouse moved over a location where a button would normally be that button would appear as if it were originally hidden but nothing else would show up. I am using the portable blender off of New Vegas Nexus. My first reaction was to uninstall everything and then do a clean re-installation. Still had the problem. So then I went onto the Blender Corp. website and downloaded the program off of their website. Did a clean installation of that and still had the problem. I did note one thing however. I accidentally installed ver. 2.62 and it loaded up just fine with no problems. After repeated attempts I have still not been able to solve the problem. I have also check the python console and it is giving me information that would indicate that it is functioning properly. Any and all help wold be greatly appreciated. I will also add a screenshot so that you can all see what I am talking about.
Demonwise Posted January 3, 2013 Author Posted January 3, 2013 Windows 7 (64 bit). I did actually have it working for a while but like I said all of a sudden it up and started having these problems.
Ark of Truth Posted January 3, 2013 Posted January 3, 2013 Is it installed inside the Program Files or Programs Files (x86)?
gregathit Posted January 3, 2013 Posted January 3, 2013 Try using this version of blender: http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/42755 It is portable, meaning that you don't need to install it, just unzip it to a folder and start using it.
Demonwise Posted January 3, 2013 Author Posted January 3, 2013 Try using this version of blender: http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/42755 It is portable' date=' meaning that you don't need to install it, just unzip it to a folder and start using it. [/quote'] actually this is the version that I am using
Ark of Truth Posted January 3, 2013 Posted January 3, 2013 Make sure it is not inside the Program Files folders. That can cause it to break.
Demonwise Posted January 3, 2013 Author Posted January 3, 2013 hmmm ok I will try to unzip it into the Program Files(x86) one instead.
Demonwise Posted January 3, 2013 Author Posted January 3, 2013 so i unzipped the portable blender to both Program Files and Program Files(x86) and both times I opened the program from either location I had the same problem. On a separate note, if I can't get this to work will the .nif import/export, BB Breast Weighting Script, and Bone Copy script all work on newer versions of Blender?
Demonwise Posted January 3, 2013 Author Posted January 3, 2013 k deleted any and all instances of Blender from the Program Files. I'm still getting the same problems when running it from the other program files location
gregathit Posted January 3, 2013 Posted January 3, 2013 Try restarting your computer. If that fails then you may have a python issue.
gerra6 Posted January 3, 2013 Posted January 3, 2013 Try restarting your computer. If that fails then you may have a python issue. Yep. There is nothing inherently wrong with having multiple Blender installs on a single computer, however having the wrong versions of Python can definitely cause problems Nifscripts and Blender 2.49b use a rather outdated version of Python (2.62, I believe) rather than the latest 2.x version. You can have 2.62 and 3.x installed at the same time, but I believe that trying to install both 2.62 and 2.73 at the same time will cause big trouble.
Demonwise Posted January 3, 2013 Author Posted January 3, 2013 hmm you may be right because I mentioned in the first post that I acidentally installed 2.62 on my computer and now that I think back that might have been right around the same time that this started to happen.
gerra6 Posted January 3, 2013 Posted January 3, 2013 hmm you may be right because I mentioned in the first post that I acidentally installed 2.62 on my computer and now that I think back that might have been right around the same time that this started to happen. I just looked at my Blender install and it appears that I am running Python 2.58. So Super Mega outdated. That said...a Blender Portable install should be running independent of any versions of Python installed in your OS. I don't understand why that wouldn't be working. Just out of curiosity, what executable are you launching it with? I should also mention...I appear to have lied earlier...in addition to Python 2.58, I also have a Python 2.73 install in a separate folder, and Python 3.2 in a third folder. Fun stuff.
Demonwise Posted January 4, 2013 Author Posted January 4, 2013 ok so restarting did nothing to help the problem. How would I go about fixing my Python version or should I ask if we know exactly which version of python I should have?
gerra6 Posted January 4, 2013 Posted January 4, 2013 ok so restarting did nothing to help the problem. How would I go about fixing my Python version or should I ask if we know exactly which version of python I should have? Well, if you're using a Blender Portable install, the version of Python installed on your computer should be irrelevant. Are you launching using the X-Blender.exe executable?
Demonwise Posted January 4, 2013 Author Posted January 4, 2013 doesn't matter if I run it from a shortcut on my desktop or from the directory itself still have the same problem
gerra6 Posted January 4, 2013 Posted January 4, 2013 doesn't matter if I run it from a shortcut on my desktop or from the directory itself still have the same problem Right, but are you launching x-blender.exe or blender.exe? The reason I ask, if you launch blender.exe, it will use your system install of Python. If you launch x-blender.exe, it will use the portable package and your system install of python should be irrelevant.
Demonwise Posted January 4, 2013 Author Posted January 4, 2013 i ran both and both had the same problem
gerra6 Posted January 4, 2013 Posted January 4, 2013 i ran both and both had the same problem That's pretty strange. The only advice that I can give at this stage is to uninstall Python, start with a freshly downloaded blender portable, and see what happens. Now, another possibility is that this is due to a conflict between Blender and your video card (it really hated my old Crossfire setup, for example). Have you upgraded any hardware or drivers lately? Other than that, I'm stumped.
Demonwise Posted January 4, 2013 Author Posted January 4, 2013 Well lets see now I recently installed a new EVGA 660 Ti graphics card but I do believe that this was still working after I installed that. I'll uninstall Python and see what happens.
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