DVD Architect will not open

thsparky57 wrote on 5/31/2010, 2:39 PM

I purchased Movie Studio 9 Platinum Ed. that included Architect 4.5 on the same disc.
Movie studio opens up fine. Architect does not open at all. When I click the icon on my desk top the little hourglass blinks and dis appears. Movie maker seems to go through all the rendering steps until i get to the button that says "open Architect" then it just doesn't do anything. I've uninstalled the program and re installed it but it still doesn't work. Does this sound like a software compatibility issue? Or...
Thanks in advance!

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/1/2010, 5:24 AM
Assuming you're on a Windows machine, have you gone to Windows Update and manually downloaded even the non-critical updates?

Have you ensured you have all the program updates?
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/updates

Have you downloaded the latest version of Quicktime, per the product's instructions?

Do you have at least 30 gigabytes of free, defragmented space on your C drive?

fred_durst1 wrote on 6/3/2010, 6:19 PM
I'm having the same problem do you have a solution yet? I can run DVD Arch. Pro 5 as a free download but the 4.5 I paid for won't open.
K-Decisive wrote on 6/9/2010, 8:11 AM
I'm having a similar issue win Win7 running 4.5 pro. It won't start up reliably unless I go through the check compatibility ( run in XP service pack 2 and as administrator) stuff every time. It's not enough to let it save the compatibility settings. You need to right click on the .EXE and go though compatibility check every time. I upgraded to 5.0 pro and same thing. After Effects has the same issue, but funny thing, Vegas doesn't.

I'm going to try wiping the whole thing and installing V5.0 as administrator.
K-Decisive wrote on 6/10/2010, 7:10 AM
ok, so that didn't help, but I tried the ole 'copy the EXE over from XP' trick ( I'm dual booting) and that seems to help. For after effects it seems to have fixed it, but DVD arch it works the first time then fails. I'm actually considering writing a batch file to copy and start it up every time. Dumb, but id it works......
K-Decisive wrote on 7/7/2010, 1:13 PM
just stating what I found, solved this a few weeks back.......F^&@%$@King Google!!......I had Google Chrome installed ( I normally stick to Firefox ), and it created a couple of Google 'services' that I had to disable in msconfig. Issue solved....Adding Google to the hate list ( Apple, Yahoo, Adobe...)...yeasshhh......

It may have also been fixed by setting the registry items to open access to all users. I found a few posts in the knowledge base searching "DVD architect won't start" ....duh.....