hello, after loving houdini a ton i finished my tutorial and went to shutdown. noticed the option update and shutdown and of course clicked it.

today i got to launch houdini and… nothing.

ok… thats odd.

try to launch via commmand line tools… nothing.

odd…

then i launched the hkey.exe via command line as i recently had to reinstall my apprentice lic.
which prompted this error:
C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 16.0.671\bin>hkey.exe
Failed to replace function free in module ucrtbase.dll

so, unfortunately i dont know enough here to tell what is going on or why it has happened. i just want to go back to making pretty things!


can anyone assist?

Try setting the environment variable TBBMALLOC_PROXY_ENABLE to 0 prior to launching Houdini. This disables the fast threaded allocator so it's not a real solution but worthwhile seeing if it's the reason why.

edward
Try setting the environment variable TBBMALLOC_PROXY_ENABLE to 0 prior to launching Houdini. This disables the fast threaded allocator so it's not a real solution but worthwhile seeing if it's the reason why.

thanks for the suggestion but still no luck.

via houdini command line:

C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software>cd “Houdini 16.0.705”

C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 16.0.705>cd bin

C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 16.0.705\bin>houdini

C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 16.0.705\bin>hkey
Failed to replace function free in module ucrtbase.dll

C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 16.0.705\bin

Did you do like this?

woah, thanks man! that did in fact work.

the previous time i was editing the houdini.env file, which… does not seem to do anything other then let redshift run.

just out of curiosity, what made you think that command would work?

Your error message “Failed to replace function free in module ucrtbase.dll”. free is an allocation function (if you know C).