Installation (Win)

From Emergent

This page explains how to install Emergent on Microsoft Windows. It also includes known issues, and troubleshooting tips.

Requirements

Emergent is designed for:

• Windows XP with SP2 applied
• Windows 2003 Server
• Windows Vista

Emergent has only been tested on 32 bit systems, but it should work with 64-bit versions of Windows. (Please try it out and let us know how it goes!). Emergent is itself a 32-bit application.

Instructions

1. Download the installation .exe file
2. Double-click the emergent-win installation file and it will pop up a dialog asking where to save the setup files; by default, it saves them in a folder called setup in the installer file folder
3. Open the setup folder and double-click the Setup.exe program
4. Follow the instructions on the screen

How to Upgrade

Just follow the same instructions as for a new installation. New versions are designed to automatically replace existing versions. However a patch release to an existing version may require you to uninstall the existing version. The installer will tell you if this is required, so just follow the instructions. Note that uninstalling the program will not affect any projects or other items you may have made.

Known Issues

• You must set the locale settings to use a period (.) and not a comma (,) for the decimal point in numbers. We are planning to fix this in a future release.
  • on Windows XP: Control Panel, Regional and Language Options, Customize, Decimal Point -> .

• The regular windows binary is NOT compatible with older AMD machines that do not support the Intel SSE2 instruction set. This includes pre-Athlon XP2 chips. We informally support these via a special build that you can download.

v4.0.11

• may not work properly in Parallels/Mac under Leopard -- we are investigating

Troubleshooting tips

OpenGL

Microsoft no longer includes hardware acceleration support for OpenGL in Windows itself. You should check to make sure the video driver for your video card includes support for hardware accelerated OpenGL, otherwise Emergent 3D displays will be slow. The best thing to do is make sure you have the latest version of the driver for your video card. See Windows Help for how to check for new drivers.