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A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

...and it solves the white box problem too! Thanks :)

However it seems a bit slower now and i'm getting a different set of wierd errors. Ho hum. All in the name of research! – tahrey, on October 06, 2008 19:55

A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

....and for the white box issue also! Nice, thanks. (Though I'm now getting a different variety of errors on the creation site ... and it seems slower somehow, though I don't have any way to benchmark it) – tahrey, on October 06, 2008 19:49

A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

excellent ... I haven't had that problem since you said this, but if it crops up again I'll upgrade on the work PC as well and see if it makes things better

certainly seems to have done the business for the creation side of things – tahrey, on October 05, 2008 13:57

dinx replied on October 05, 2008 12:04 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

I'd like to run Photosync in a XP VM (I have no physical Windows Installation).
BTW: A Firefox Extention would be nice that runs in Ubuntu :)

A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

I was glad to hear you got it working. :) – Nathanael Lawrence, on September 12, 2008 22:54

A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

For Michel,

You asked whether or not they called this a beta. You can read the following text on their About page:

"What you see on this site is the first of many versions of Photosynth. Call it beta, call it 1.0, call it whatever you want... just know we are hard at work adding support for more browsers, more platforms, and more hardware, and just making the experience that much more amazing." – Nathanael Lawrence, on September 12, 2008 22:50

ScottF replied on September 11, 2008 22:43 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

The title of this thread is a little confusing. I've marked the Photosynth system requirements as the "company answer" at the top of this thread, so it is easy to find.

If you've found this thread because you're experiencing the Viewer startup error ("We wish Photosynth would run for you, but obviously it's not working"), please head on over to this thread: it's not working - is it my graphics card?.

(By the way, thanks to everyone for providing debugging information so far. We want Photosynth to run for you!)

poppy1944 replied on September 11, 2008 01:50 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

I have the same problem. Am running an HP with AMD Athlon 3000+ processor - 2.16GHz. 2 GB RAM and 160 GB hard drive. Windows XP home version SP3. Video is Intel integrated. Have loaded, unloaded and reloaded software and still get "Required number of texture blend stages (4) not supported. After two evening of working on this, this may become software for those who have machines with large graphic cards, latest Intel Pentium 4 chips, etc.. I understand someone put out software only tested on Intel machines and it would not run on AMD machines until a patch was provided. This looks like a great program, but it needs to work. Thanks..

Jonathan replied on September 10, 2008 19:21 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

We just released a fix that addresses the blank photos/white box in 2D issue. . Existing users won't be prompted to upgrade, but you can install the upgrade here if you're affected.

tahrey replied on September 07, 2008 11:50 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

For reference, it works fine for me with:
1.73Ghz Pentium-M, 1Gb RAM (533mhz DDR2), Intel 945 series graphics (probably the lowest-end variant of such - it has shared VRAM for a start, usually only taking 8mb), IE7. It's a midrange 12" tablet PC (therefore it wasn't exactly high-spec to start with, being built for portability, battery life, and affordability) that's 2 1/2 years old now.

It does however, wierdly, have occasional trouble on my nearly-new desktop PC at work - 1.86Ghz Celeron, 2Gb RAM, and an inexplicable add-in GeForce of some kind (7300? 9300?) which should have up-to-date drivers as I updated them myself. Used IE7 with it (as something wierd with it's FFx3 install means that NO plugins will download), and it works for a while before giving up with the point cloud / white box problem.

donYan replied on September 03, 2008 14:18 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

This is just a copy of a GoogleEarth surround photos...only in Google, it WORKS without any downloads, faultless and fast. Why all Microsoft "Live" things are ALLWAYS so SLOW? or just DON'T WORK at AL, as is this case...
donYan

blackmonday replied on September 02, 2008 11:31 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

I can confirm that Photosynth does NOT work in VMWare Fusion 2.0b2
running Vista with either Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 3.01.

Are there any plans to fix this for a future release?

esprimo replied on August 29, 2008 10:52 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

absolutely no chance to run with new Intel Core Duo 2,8 GHZ, 1 GB Ram, & NVideaGforce 7600 GS (256 MB) on XP Pro SP2 - its just a standard...

A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

run dxdiag and make sure 3D acceleration is enabled on the "Display" tab. With your config it should be but it will not hurt to check. – poet_imp, on August 27, 2008 21:15

A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

I upgraded my VMWare Workstation to 6.5RC and turned on 3D support. This corrected the problem for me. – poet_imp, on August 27, 2008 21:08

jabudaoud replied on August 27, 2008 19:49 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

I get the same message.

It would SURE be nice if the "help page" had the answer that the message refers to.

Now, I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700, driver 6.6.9.3 dated 10/29/2004

Win XP Pro 2002 sp2, 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium
I can't find the video memory size.

What do I need to do?

poet_imp replied on August 27, 2008 19:13 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

Same problem. Running XP SP3 under Linux VMWare Workstation 6.0.4.

A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

Any plan to have a Parallels compatible version? A lot of us use a virtual version of Windows on our higher-end Macs. Solving this would be appreciated. – abacae, on August 27, 2008 01:39

lupos replied on August 26, 2008 08:44 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

I've a very old laptop: travelmate 220 but it fix with system requipments. no firefox no ie work :( I whant to see my synth!!!!

Bob replied on August 24, 2008 02:30 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Live Labs:

I have the same problem. XP SP2 ??