Unity crashes upon startup

Unity Engine
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I can’t figure out what the solution is.

I’m running unity on a Windows XP SP3 system with plenty of resources.

Here’s what happens. I double click the Unity icon to launch the program. It crashes and opens the bug reporting tool. I launched unity again, and immediately pressed and held down “Alt” to access the New Project Wizard, which pops up. I try to start a new project with “Standard Assets Package” checked. It crashes. I try to repeat the procedure of starting a new project, only without importing any packages. It crashes.

There are no problems in DXDIAG. I’ve tried disabling DEP (Data Access Prevention) for Unity.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Can you provide the log, please?
It is in C:\Documents and Settings<your_user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Unity\Editor

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Hi,

Thanks for taking a look! Here are the two log files I have.

313865–11081–$editor_prev_177.txt (642 Bytes)
313865–11082–$editor_138.txt (496 Bytes)

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Ok, you’re lucky (probably). That seems like one bug we couldn’t reproduce. I fixed it some days ago (we can’t test it, so basically i made sure we do everything we can to avoid it ;-))
So, can you please run bat file from attached zip, and tell me if it crashes or print something (it should print on who windows was registered)
And, in any case, which version are you using - to be able to rebuild :wink:

313876–11086–$test_175.zip (4.21 KB)

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I’m away from the computer in question for the next 8 hours, however at the very first chance I get I will run the file you provided. Thanks again Alexey!

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I updated zip - please recheck - it will give additional info (add first output line to the post)

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I will run the file in two and a half hours, and report back the results.

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Here are the results. I’m not sure how it helps though. I’m using the newest version of Unity 2.6.1 free version.

314200--11089--$results_988.jpg

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Ok, just to clarify to me - what is your system language (in regions and settings)?
EDIT: and unity version, please 8)

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English (United States)

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Unity 2.6.1 free version.

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Ok, let’s hope this the very same bug - i’ll get back to you

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Ok, Thanks. I’ll look for your next message.

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Ok, to everyone who got into this: this bug is fixed in 3.0. If you have older version :wink: you should try this:

first of all - backup you registry - you won’t break it - but just in case

go HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

there will be values RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization (and lot of others)

Basically you need RegisteredOrganization contain something (e.g. “home”) but please make it only english (to avoid possible problems for now - in 3.0 it will work like magic)

Attached is the example of what it looks like on my machine after these steps: basically to make sure you are safe to do this :wink:

315058--11124--$1_211_211.jpg

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I’m very grateful to Alexey for helping me with this. It worked like a charm!