Just got my software today - oh happy happy!. Installed it fine. When I go to run it all I get is an error message Buffer overrun detected. Pointed at H:Vue 5 Espritvue5.exe. and that's it. Period. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, checked registry, not running SP2. I shut down Norton, Zone Alarm, nothing. Any ideas?

Buffer overruns are software coding errors. Here is an example of what I'm talking about. "Once discovered, a buffer overflow only can be fixed with a patch a rewrite of code. Security experts say it's a lot easier to fix the problem while software is being written." "The solution is to not introduce them in the first place," Levy said. "Make them choose programming languages that are less prone." Programmers also must be reminded of the importance of developing memory management techniques. One of the most popular languages, C, does not automatically offer such protections. Newer languages, such as Java, do. "Buffer overflows are fundamentally a failure of individual programmers to see that they have enough space to store data," said Shawn Hernan, a security expert at the government-funded Computer Emergency Response Team. Operating system vendors have made it a priority to search for such vulnerabilities. Software also needs to act like a bank teller who sees too many digits in the account number of a deposit slip, Bertnick said. "That kind of intelligence is what needs to be put into programs to prevent buffer overflow attacks," he said. "Unfortunately, it takes a little bit of time and energy on the part of software companies." ------------------------------------------------- I suggest you duplicate the error, if you can, and send to E-On and Microsoft. Installing SP2 may actually help you if it's a XP bug.... Hope that helps...

Lingrif; When I borked my first install of Vue 5, it turned out to be the detrius left behind from a hard drive failure that killed my Vue4VuePro drive (and being a typical windows program, Vue simply doesn't remove everything when it is uninstalled). I had to clean out everything from the system; app and Cow, registry top to bottom, and searching out the .eon files hidden here and there. The second install went just fine (well, except for the non functional RenderCow for Mover 5, and E-on is working on it). I'd uninstall, sweep the system beyond thorough, reboot, reinstall, and see what happens. If you get the same thing, E-on definitely needs to know...

I am installing this on a fairly clean hard drive. I went through the registry to clean out any reference to Vue5, etc. I've swept the system, cleaning out all sorts of things. The error I am getting is a windows runtime library error, not an eon error or a Windows type error. And it is duplicatable - every time I try to start Vue5. I have contacted Eon but heard nothing. I am about ready to start backing things up and install SP2 (shudder).

Xiores if it was a programming bug, I would get the same myself, but I'm on XP and have no problem whatsoever with Vue 5. Linda I wish I could offer some better help but it's something I can not even test (shrug) what I would do if I were in your shoes would be to 1. try the uninstall/registryclean procedure that Dale describes and in case of insuccess 2. call E-on on the phone to get the fastest reply

Phone idea sounds good. I've done the cleanup several times, so I think that is my best bet. I'm just sitting around recuperating from knee replacement surgergy so I do have some time on my hands. Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone.

These are more general suggestions I think. First, when I have a problem with an installation, I copy the entire CD to my harddrive and run the installation from there. Second, do not change the default path for the installation. Btw for me SP2 is a 'must have' and all my e-on and poser products run very well with XP/SP2. Norbert

hmmm....I changed the default path on mine...as I didn't want it on my c drive and all went well.

Does it flag which runtime it is? Vue 5 installs a few of the Visual runtimes; before committing SP2, you might want to find which ones Vue 5 installed, goto the MS site and download those specific runtimes, and install them to see if that solves the problem. 'Version-itis' is a real PITA with the .dll's, and you may have had an incompatible runtime that XP has decided it will keep over all others....

It is the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtine Library. I'lll go out there and poke around.

I am now up and running thanks to a friend with a similar problem. Seems there is a file VUE5.REG that Vue places in the Windows directory. There was some incorrect data in that file which I was able to to edit using Notepad and now all is peachy. (In my case, it was pointing to an invalid directory). I have notified Eon support. Thanks for all of the help. By the way, it runs fine on a directory other than the default path (thank heavens). I hate installing stuff on my C drive.

WOW ! When I read about such strange problems I thanks God that on my machine everything works smoothly. Maybe your problems are linked to some hardware trouble ? I had on my machine in the same time Vue 4, Vue 4.5 Pro , Mover 5, and Vue 5 - each of them reinstaled several times (when new versions or Beta were available) and I never encountered any problems during instalation. I run Windows XP on AMD Athlon 2000+ , 1 GB, G-Force 5600 Asus A7N8X motherboard (nForce2)

I'm surprised too that I'd never run into this before. I've done the same with Vue4, VuePro and now Vue5, installed and re-installed all over the place. But this time, it bit me. Just glad to be up and running. I'm running a P4 240Ghz with 1.5 GB RAM (XP Pro), 2 HD 1-80GB and 1-160GB).