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Multiple weirdness since upgrading to 4R8-P1 Crash,crash and crash again

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#1

Ok, I did the proper upgrade to 4R8. Nice, everything worked for me minus my own stupidity and not paying close attention. LOVE THIS RELEASE!

Upgraded to P1 Friday morning. Restarted my computer as requested. This resulted in the dreaded windows 10 restart loop of hell issue. Related? probably not. Once that issue was resolved, I decided to create some chisel brushes to get my arms around it. Also doing a job using image planes using Zgrids. So, now if I try to drag rec any texture onto a simple plane it crashes. Try to use the smooth brush, crash. Really basic stuff prompts crashing. I have tried using different models. Every time i try to use the smooth brush it is lights out. Also, the Z home page doesn’t load any content at all. Good news is, long holiday weekend. Bad news, I already uninstalled 4R7, so now I can’t do anything until this is resolved. Do I need to re install 4R8? Very bummed.

#2

You almost certainly need to deactivate/uninstall/reinstall with the standard precautions (disable AntiVirus, run as administrator–assuming Windows here, always specify your OS for problems of this nature) from the full standalone installer, then follow the directions for the upgrade exactly (not saying you didn’t, but read them again carefully to make sure).

It would be even better to download the fully upgraded standalone installer that contains the P1 update to avoid any issues specific to the updater process, but you’d probably have to contact support for that.

If you can live without the things addressed by the P1 patch, consider simply reinstalling R8 vanilla from the installer, and not running the updater until after the holiday, considering that was when your issues started.

#3

Thanks. I already did it. Everything is fine now. I did download the new installer with p1 integrated in it. Smooth as silk.