Blender wont start HELP PLEASE!!!!! (SOLVED)

[Fatkiwi]

hi ive had blender installed for a long time now and its always ran without any problems but i tryed to run it to day to finish up some models i was making and it wont start, it will open CMD and go though the normal things then it will disappear and nothing will happen its not even in taskmanager ive tryed googling the problem but i cant find anything tht will help, does anyone know how to fix this problem?

a few places said to go into %appdata% and delete the start up data for blender but its not there (the start up file)

im runing windows 7 64bit
-thanks

[TacoTormentor]

Try running blender.exe directly. You can find it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender (if you downloaded it to the default location)

[Fatkiwi]

Originally posted by TacoTormentor:

Try running blender.exe directly. You can find it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender (if you downloaded it to the default location)

yer have tryed this i even downloaded from the website, i also deleted the steam version then re-installed it, when i load it with out steam it doesnt even show CMD

[Kumquat [Velbud]]

Try dowloading the original Blender from the site, not from Steam. I don't really have problems with Blender myself because use an outside Blender, which actualy is more advantagous than the one on Steam.

[Fatkiwi]

i downloaded it and it wont even do the cmd thing

Originally posted by G.o.D. Strashniy Velikhan:

Try dowloading the original Blender from the site, not from Steam. I don't really have problems with Blender myself because use an outside Blender, which actualy is more advantagous than the one on Steam.

[Fatkiwi]

i got the fix it turns out you need to download a .dll heres the link in case this ever happens to anyone else
for 32bit http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/win32/opengl32.dll
and for 64 http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/win64/opengl32.dll
once downloaded just put in the directory of blender

thanks for the help guys :)

[JOTA]

Originally posted by Fatkiwi:

i got the fix it turns out you need to download a .dll heres the link in case this ever happens to anyone else
for 32bit http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/win32/opengl32.dll
and for 64 http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/win64/opengl32.dll
once downloaded just put in the directory of blender

thanks for the help guys :)

Hey bro, i'm having a problem, i've just installed blender, tried to run it (This is a brand new pc, so its the first time i download/install it to this one) and it runs the black DOS like screen, but then it just closes. Would that fix my problem too? Also, where do i place it? 2.76n btw

[Fatkiwi]

give it a shot man

[Pangi]

as Jōta also wondered, where do i place it?

[TacoTormentor]

Originally posted by pangi123:

as Jōta also wondered, where do i place it?

Originally posted by TacoTormentor:

... C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender ...

Originally posted by Fatkiwi:

... just put in the directory of blender ...

[Trosansson]

Originally posted by 『JOTA』:

Originally posted by Fatkiwi:

i got the fix it turns out you need to download a .dll heres the link in case this ever happens to anyone else
for 32bit http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/win32/opengl32.dll
and for 64 http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/win64/opengl32.dll
once downloaded just put in the directory of blender

thanks for the help guys :)

Hey bro, i'm having a problem, i've just installed blender, tried to run it (This is a brand new pc, so its the first time i download/install it to this one) and it runs the black DOS like screen, but then it just closes. Would that fix my problem too? Also, where do i place it? 2.76n btw

I just downloaded blender 2.77a and the issue is that a CMD-window appear, it doesn't do anything. I tried to download that .dll (64bit) and pasted it into the directory. It's still doing the same thing, CMD window pops up, but nothing else is happening from there. I've used blender before with no problems.

I am running Win 10 64bit

[AbysswalkerWolf]

I have found a fix, this is what worked for me
Close blender..
Go to run dialog with Win+R
Type "%appdata%" without quotes
look for a folder called "Blender Foundation"
Run Blender

[raycorsica]

moi ça plante et tout est à jour.
MAIS 9A GENE PAS STEAM APPAREMENT QUI NE REMBOURSE PAS;;;NI BLENDER QUI EST INJOIGNABLE;;;;;;;;;LA BELLE VIE LES ESCROCS QUOI Oo

[comp9]

Originally posted by MAD DOG YA MAD ♥♥♥♥:

i got the fix it turns out you need to download a .dll heres the link in case this ever happens to anyone else
for 32bit http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/win32/opengl32.dll
and for 64 http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/win64/opengl32.dll
once downloaded just put in the directory of blender

thanks for the help guys :)

This fixed it for me!

[Jack Schitt]

The dll download didn't do it for me. It still won't launch through Steam. It launches fine if I launch directly from the exe but I'd like it to successfully launch through Steam and stay running so it logs my hours.

Any other suggestions on how to get it to launch successfully through Steam?

[sphynxcolt]

Happened to me as well. After long time away from Blender, new Update etc. I tried to open it, crash. Every single time. Started it with Task manager open and randomly saw some sort of Anti Virus software constantly active I have never seen before. I removed it and now Blender starts just fine... Absolutely no idea what the heck hapened. (No, This Anti Virus had nothing to do with Blender. However, Ive never seen this one before on my device)