define 'properly' ?

if I may give my 2 cents:  the same question is asked a lot of our Project Dogwaffle, especially with the latest PD Pro 5 release a few weeks ago.

The challenges that occasionally prop up with installing on Vista, or on win7, are very often related to UAC. With User Account Control enabled, there are certain things that a program might want to do which are not allowed by UAC, such as installing a new subfolder or additional files inside the folder where the program is installed. For example, if you launch the program and it tries to create a Temp subfolder in its own instalation folder, you could get an error message like "unknown error - quitting" or similar, because the creation of the folder was denied by UAC. Programs like Bryce 5.0 (or perhaps still also 5.5) and others from 4-5 years ago may have not been developed FOR smooth installation and use under Vista with UAC. However, you can often still make them work there to, such as we see with PD Pro. Even the old free version of Dogwaffle 1.2, dating back 6 years, based on Visual Basic 5 code, runs fine under win7 or Vista, even on the 64-bit versions.

Sometimes you'll want to install as administrator: instead of double-clicking the installer file, right-click it, and select Run As Administrator...

Sometimes you'll want to run the installed program as Administrator too, at least just once, so that it can override the UAC restrictions and create its needed subfolders. That works in 99% of the cases for PD Pro. Bryce may work the same way.

If you're looking for a getting started tutorial on Bryce 5 I have one or two and some links to others at www.thebest3d.com/bryce :
http://www.thebest3d.com/bryce/bryce-gallery-and-resources.html#Tutorials

Try the Getting started tutorial and send us feedback here if you will?
http://www.thebest3d.com/pdp/tutorials/bryce101/index.html

Hope this helps

-Philip

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