i installed it all successfully and when i try to run the program, the liscense agreement pops up and i click agree, then i just get the error sound and the program never starts up
I do run it as a administrator
and other adobe programs seem to work just fine on my pc
I just downloaded it yesterday
i still have another 30 days left
the program just won't start for some reason
and i'm asking if its windows 7
because photoshop runs just fine with windows 7
Brandon, please understand that nobody will be able to help you on that. W7 may look and feel like Vista, but it isn't. Hence nobody can give you any guarantees that a software not officially developed with it in mind will run on it. If you don't know which buttons to push, you're on your own, mostly. As a minor, try to launch the Adobe Licensing Service manually and unblock it in your firewall. This may help. Also check, whether your Users\All Users\AppData and similar directories are fully accessible.
I'm having problems with After Effects on Windows 7 (64-bit), too. I'm running the release candidate and AE fails to start up. It displays the splash screen but then never finishes starting. Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Bridge, Flash and Flex are all working OK so it appears that it's just an After Effects problem. Too bad, because I'm very pleased with my experience with Win 7 so far. It's still early days but, in general, it appears to run better than my Win XP x64 installation. I guess I'll have to boot back into that old OS for running AE.
Have you checked your graphics card settings and driver? Most such failures are related to the GPU sniffer producing nonsense results due to the drivers still being Betalized. Also try to manually turn off some of the fancies for Aero and such. I'm not sure, since I'm staying away from W7 for the time being (just got a new core7i with Vista 64 and not feeling adventurous), but you may also need to work your way through that changed media handling stuff and Quicktime. I tend to think there is certainly some "legacy" switch for DirectDraw CoDecs in the control panel somewhere. Just a few random thoughts on the matter, of course, but may be a starting point.
Have you checked your graphics card settings and driver?
Mylenium,
Your suspicion was right on. In my case, the problem turned out to be the ATI Gamer OSD (on-screen display) software. I uninstalled it and now After Effects is working fine on Windows 7 RC.
Hello! I need some help! i have installed win7 and after effects cs4 and activated, but the window telling me that it;s going to install some codecs never appears. same with Soundbooth CS4. Can you tell me what the problem is?
The only thing I can think of is a general solution that has worked for me with a number of programs that stopped functioning under Windows 7: run the programs in Administrator mode. Right-click on the program or shortcut and do Run as administrtor.
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