Questions tagged [windows]
Questions pertaining to the Windows Operating System as it relates to Blender. Questions can be anything from compatibility to optimization.
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Wacom tablet acting oddly in 2.71
Just putting this out there in case anyone has any ideas.
I have an older Wacom Intous2 and it still works great. I'm on Windows7. On Blender 2.71 and earlier, my Wacom tablet always worked perfectly, ...
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Render finished notification on Windows
On Mac, when Blender finishes rendering, it sends a notification with an audible chime. But on Windows there is no notification. Is it a Mac-only feature, or I'm missing some settings? I googled for a ...
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dialog windows with two displays
I have two displays and I'd like to move Blender to the secondary display and not the main one, because of resolution stuff (main display is a laptop display scaled 125% and it kinda leaves less room ...
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CUDA error: Launch exceeded timeout in cutCtxSynchronize()
I am trying to render my scene with my GPU (GTX 660ti) but it always fail with this error and crashes driver.
Rendering blender's BMW benchmark scene works just fine, there must be something wrong ...
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Blender won't open. The command window flashes but nothing else. I want to share my solution
Problem: Blender worked until I installed 2.90. It opened once then failed afterwards. When I tried to open Blender, the command prompt flashed and disappeared. Blender would not open. I don't like ...
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Blender closes when minimised or UI elements are closed
I’m having a bug which was not present about a week ago.
Every time I click the blender Icon in the Windows 10 taskbar to minimise it, it just completely shuts down. If I open a window within the ...
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Blender app window BLANK after Windows 10 update
Windows updated a few days ago
Version 10.0.17134 Build 17134
I noticed the Windows app "create password reset disc" opens, with no window. I can see it in alt-tab, but when selecting it, nothing ...
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Alt combination doesn't work well Blender 2.78 and 2.79, Windows 7 x64
I discovered that AltH doesn't work and I was unable to unhide objects.
After a series of tests and looking online, I discovered myself that the left Alt key doesn't work always, but the right Alt (...
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Blender opens but is strangely unresponsive
I am using Win 7 home 64bit. I have multiple versions of blender portable installed (just an unzip), after not using it for a couple months I went to open 2.77a and it just gives me a big black screen ...
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Transformation manipulator rotate keeps messing with my material view
Bizarre glitch(?) that seems to happen whenever I use the material view after activating the rotate transformation manipulator on a rig. When I rotate my bones manually, everything seems just fine, ...
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Problems setting ap a render farm
I'm trying to set up Blender on our renderfarm.
Main problem is, we are using blade servers without a dedicated graphics card, so when starting Blender on the server I get this error:
Can't detect 3D ...
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GPU and missing kernel...32b works but not 64b
So I just did a build with an ASUS GTX 980 ti with windows 7 64b OS. None of the 64b versions of Blender are working, they just flash a quick command window for a 1/2 sec and then nothing. The 32b ...
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Memory management batch file script not working
using the information from this exchange(When Blender crashes during rendering), I made a script that for some reason doesn't work. The script I made is just like the one in the example except for the ...
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Multi files rendering with windows script command dont work
I have a recent problem that prevents me from using windows scripts for render queue on my desktop workstation.
The commands work, but the only problem is that it doesn't chain the next command to ...
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Blender CLI does not work when blender is installed through Windows Store
In order to have a blender version manager I installed blender through the Windows store. When you install through the windows store it seems that they store the file in ...