I am sorry, I had hoped for an error message during the ++ install, which I could search for.
I wished I could help you, because Bryce is so much fun ...
Just to cover an old issue for completeness, are people on W7 sure they installed Bryce 7 somewhere OTHER than Program Files (x86)? Bryce is a funny animal. It insists on having its content in the same parent folder as the program. Because W7 forbids user content in Program Files, that means you have to install Bryce somewhere else, like C:\Bryce7.
I am sorry, I had hoped for an error message during the ++ install, which I could search for.
I wished I could help you, because Bryce is so much fun ...
One of the C++ runtime installers (I forget which one exactly) wouldn’t run—it threw up an error saying that it was incompatible with my processor. All the others ran just fine; they just didn’t fix whatever the problem is. In case you missed it, my machine is a Dell laptop with an Intel i3 dual-core processor, 6 GB RAM, and Win7 Home Premium 64-bit—a pretty vanilla system. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a 64-bit version of Bryce 7, hoping that’d fix the problem.
Just to cover an old issue for completeness, are people on W7 sure they installed Bryce 7 somewhere OTHER than Program Files (x86)? Bryce is a funny animal. It insists on having its content in the same parent folder as the program. Because W7 forbids user content in Program Files, that means you have to install Bryce somewhere else, like C:\Bryce7.
I’ll try that and get back to you, thanks.
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No, that didn’t work, either, but thanks for the suggestion.
It’s 32 bit. Which is why people with 64 bit windows installed get this side by sied error show up. THey need to install a redistibutal file from Microsoft to add the missing .dll in the visualC++ . A lot of the toruble is caused by the fact that MS have released various different versions, but call them all by the same name, so how the hell are you supposed to know whether you need the 2005 version, or the 2008 version or the 2010 version. It really doesn’t ehpl people who really want to use Bryce, but have opted for a 64 bit PC.
Makes me wish I could order my new PC with windoze XP installed. I know I can run Bryce on that, because I am doing it now on this one.
Bryce can be installed on any drive, even network or USB stick (if you do it right). As soon as you use more than one version of Bryce, you need to install it to different folders.
Just to cover an old issue for completeness, are people on W7 sure they installed Bryce 7 somewhere OTHER than Program Files (x86)? Bryce is a funny animal. It insists on having its content in the same parent folder as the program. Because W7 forbids user content in Program Files, that means you have to install Bryce somewhere else, like C:\Bryce7.
I have window 7 64 bit and Bryce is installed with all of it’s contents into Program Files (x86).
Just to cover an old issue for completeness, are people on W7 sure they installed Bryce 7 somewhere OTHER than Program Files (x86)? Bryce is a funny animal. It insists on having its content in the same parent folder as the program. Because W7 forbids user content in Program Files, that means you have to install Bryce somewhere else, like C:\Bryce7.
I have window 7 64 bit and Bryce is installed with all of it’s contents into Program Files (x86).
No problems running it.
For most people, that is a problem, because W7 secretly moves all the user content to Program Data. That’s not an install issue tho, it’s a runtime issue.
Quite a few poeple have had success by using either parallells or bootcamp on Macs with OSX7.
You still have to pay the Microsoft tax to do this, but it can be done. Natively, Bryce will not run on Lion or Mountain Lion. This is well documented.
Bootcamp gives you a dual-boot system. Anything is possible there, since Apple uses Intel processors on Macbooks. Parallels is a vrtual machine that runs Windows under Mac OS. Either way, you have to buy a Windows OS to run in it.
