Hi There,

I've dowloaded the latest apprentice version 10.0.249.3 X64 and installed it on my VISTA 64 workstation GEFORCE 8800 GTX 4GB DDR2 with the last graphic drivers 182 and when I start Houdini It make the UI cache and then it open houdini without any icons , it is slow as hell and crash if I try anything.

I've already read the other post related to my issue, but It still doesn't wok ?
Can Anybody help me to get this Leading software , I'm a long time Lightwave user and I wanna switch to Houdini .

THX a lot .

We gave it a shot here on vista 64 with the 182.5 driver that was posted by nvidia on apr.2/09 and an 8800 and it worked fine. It wasn't a GTX though.

Well, then what should I do ? I tried all drivers from 178 to the lastest 182.5 , I try to emulate opengl 3 with nvemulate but nothing work , I still have a blank UI . And I work with other 3D app very well .

you mentioned that you read other posts, but just to make sure, perhaps removing $HOME/houdini10.0/ may help:
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=12172 [sidefx.com]
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=13362 [sidefx.com]

or maybe the date is set incorrectly:
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=11617&highlight=icons+directory [sidefx.com]



There is also the last resort of trying to bypass OpenGL drivers by setting the HOUDINI_OGL_SOFTWARE environment variable to 1:
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=13616 [sidefx.com]
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=10873 [sidefx.com]