Help! modeler won't open

[hunter]

I just did a clean instal on a new hard drive running windows 2000 pro SP4. LW 6.5b Layout opens and runs fine but modeler just briefly flashes up and dissappears. Any body else seen this?
Thanks

[Justinw]

Hi there,

Try deleting all your Lightwave config files, then restart your computer. hopefully you should get modeler back (I had a similar thing happen in Layout with the graph editor, flashed up then dissapeared, and it fixed that).

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Justin W.

[hunter]

thanks for the suggestion but to no avail. Found some similar problems posted in the old forums but no real solutions.

[mattclary]

If it's not config files, pretty much has to be video related.

[hunter]

ya know I would think so too but if I remove the dongle it opens and runs in demo mode. go figure.

[gjjackson]

One other thing you may check is in the registry. Newtek and some other developers use the registry to store data. If there is any corruption there it would cause a failure to load. I had an Lscript that the temp file it used was corrupted and I tried completely removing it and reinstalling to no avail. I finally figured out the Lscript stored parts in the registry and that part had become corrupted.

You can look here HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NewTek in your registry to find any problems.

[Justinw]

If the above suggestions don't work, check to see if your Win2K Service pack setup allow you to un-install the SP's. I had similar problems with 6.5b after I installed IE 6. Try running SP 2 with IE 5 and see if that works. You may need to re-install Windows though (I don't think uninstalling just IE 6 works).

Cheers,

Justin W.

[mattclary]

OK, try reinstalling different dongle drivers.

[Stewdent101]

i had the same problem in the end i got in touch with newtek support and they found out my dongle was faulty and it was replaced

[Stewdent101]

p.s
it was a paralelle dongle

[hunter]

yea , I contacted them and I think that's what I have to do too. weird that it doesn't effect layout though. Thanks all for taking an interest. The LW community is without the most helpful.