Hello everyone. After the Softimage announcement, I've decided to try Houdini. Eager to try it, I installed Houdini Apprentice on my Surface Pro 2 while at work.

Is anyone running Houdini on Surface Pro 2? When I try to launch, it says it must run in Software OpenGL mode. My bigger problem is the program crashes. A lot! The easiest way I got it to crash was create a curve. Change it to Nurbs, bezier.. Bam CRASH! :cry:

I guess I'll try it on my desktop a home…

Try setting the environment variable HOUDINI_OGL_SOFTWARE = 0 in the Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables section. That should force it to work in hardware accelerated mode, which should be more stable than Microsoft's ancient GL1.1 renderer.

Thank you for the prompt reply. After setting the variable (thx for detailed instructions), it now launches without bringing up the opengl dialog.

I'll have to test it more to see if it still crashes.

Thanks again,
-Dave