Possible EAC Fix for Windows 7 users

[HungryAndTired]

This is in relation to EAC crashing as soon as I hit play. Can use 7DTD without EAC. Can run Rust with EAC. Could use EAC on my old computer. This is a new computer.

I did some trial and error research to find out what exactly was needed for EAC to function and ended up on a completely unrelated website (people having similar problems with an update to Blender).

One thing that was mentioned is that the update isn't compatible with Windows 7 WITHOUT service pack 1 due to VC++ dependencies. Turns out I never actually installed SP1 on my new computer whereas EAC worked on my old computer with SP1 installed.

I'm installing now and will update this when I'm done to let you know if this is a possible fix, but I just thought I'd post ASAP for others that may have faster download speeds and can get SP1 quicker than me.

[HungryAndTired]

Reference:
"This issue not contains at least 3 distinct problems.

The following are NOT considered a bug:

Not having proper OpenGL drivers

Trying to run blender with python 2.7 libraries. ( This will not work and is not intended to work ever )

Not having a supported versions of windows. ( For windows 7 please update to service pack 1, for Vista update update update.. but it should work after you fully updated )

The buildbot releases up until yesterday had an issue which I solved so please retest.

dingto (Thomas Dinges) added a comment.Via Web · Sep 2 2014, 4:58 PM

Please everyone check the latest Buildbot release and make sure you consider all of @juicyfruit's points.

juicyfruit (Martijn Berger) closed this task as "Archived".Via Web · Sep 5 2014, 10:28 AM


I will have to close this issue from lack of feedback.

Collignon_David (Collignon David) added a subscriber: Collignon_David (Collignon David).Via Web · Sep 13 2014, 2:40 PM

Indeed SP1 did it for me.
Silly me..."

[HungryAndTired]

Completely updated and still not working. Can't figure out what is different between this computer and my old one apart from this one having newer hardware.

[Mertaan Dinosaur]

Try updating again, i had to run it twice and it worked! :)

[HungryAndTired]

I already ran it three times and my windows update list was empty..... aaaaand now it isn't any more. Damn it! Thanks for the heads up. I'll run the last few updates and report back for anyone else thinking this may be the issue.

[HungryAndTired]

Yes! That fixed it!!! had to run update 3 times.

[Mertaan Dinosaur]

Good :)