Blender Problem

[Demonwise]

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.

[Ark of Truth]

What operating system you using and bit?

[Demonwise]

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]

Is it installed inside the Program Files or Programs Files (x86)?

[gregathit]

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]

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.

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actually this is the version that I am using

[Ark of Truth]

Make sure it is not inside the Program Files folders. That can cause it to break.

[Demonwise]

hmmm ok I will try to unzip it into the Program Files(x86) one instead.

[Demonwise]

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?

[Ark of Truth]

No make sure it is NOT in program files!

[Demonwise]

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

[Ark of Truth]

NOT in program files (x86) either.

[gregathit]

Try something like C:\Blender

[Demonwise]

did that and alas it did not work

[gregathit]

Try restarting your computer. If that fails then you may have a python issue.

[gerra6]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

doesn't matter if I run it from a shortcut on my desktop or from the directory itself still have the same problem

[gerra6]

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]

i ran both and both had the same problem

[gerra6]

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]

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.