ERROR IN STARTING OF MASTERCAM

[camman36]

Am having problems when starting mastercam with an error reading Afx Rich Edit init failed! Can anyone tell me what the cause is and how to fix this?

[gcode]

Not a clue. I've never seen that one before.

Have you talked to your dealer about it??

[Jim at Gentex]

Welcome to the forum camman36!

 

Methinks AFX (Animation Frames Extension?)and Rich Edit has something to do w/ loading drivers for your video card, but I'm not sure. There are a few computer gurus here on the forum who can probably offer a better explanation.

[camman36]

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP WITH THIS I AM GETTING FRUSTRATED THAT I CANT FIND ANY INFO ON THIS ERROR ANYWHERE!

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

36,

give us some info on your PC, processsor, OS, video card?

[camman36]

Running amd athalon 1900, geforce 5500oc graphic card, windows 98se, and pc is a custom from nutrend. hope this helps someone to figure out what problem is.

[gcode]

quote:

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windows 98se

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I don't know if Mastercam even supports WIN 98 anymore. An OS upgrade may be in order

[Brad St.]

Camman, make sure your using the most current drivers from your vid card manufacturer, NOT WINDOWS UPDATED DRIVER! Been burnt there before just like you maybe that after and update to my pc I couldn't even get cam to start. One call to our reseller and I felt like a fool, that's all it took.

 

Good Luck and welcome to the forum!

[Jim at Gentex]

camman36,

There are lots of threads here you can search about MC and video card interface problems. Like Brad suggests, get the latest driver from the mfg first as that may be the quick fix. Gcode may also be correct that win 98 may no longer support MC, but I'm thinking vid card. MC runs best on almost exclusively nvidia cards so you probably should upgrade that driver and see what happens.

 

HTH

[camman36]

grrrr! got drivers updated and read that mc supports win98. still cant figure out the prob. if u know some pc guru please tell him/her what error i keep getting and if they know fix.

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

I would personally consider this a perfect time to upgrade the O.S. as the previous posts suggested... Mastercam may support Win 98 but Win 98 doesn't support Win 98 ! No, that's not a typo... It is a terrible O.S. Try Windows XP you'll LOVE it. Easy to use, better help files, almost every feature is 10 times better than older windows versions... Even if it has a serious error, about 95% of the time it recovers itself and you don't even have to restart... It's so worth it !

[Don Nichparenko]

I have also had this problem. I was using windows 98. I reloaded windows 98. It reloaded windows without deleting my saved files. (just rewrote windows files). Doing this solved all my problems. Hope this helps.

 

p.s. I bet you have deleted some unnecessary programs (or old programs)from your computer lately.

[Guest]

Have you tried a MC repair or reinstall?

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Simple question - did it work before? And if so, what has changed since the last time you ran?