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

By the way, I met all the requirements before I tried this out. – monkey820820, on November 10, 2008 16:38

monkey820820 replied on November 10, 2008 14:07 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Here's what I did to get it to work: Go to the windows start menu, and select Run. Type in "dxdiag" without the quotes. Select the "display" tab. All of my Direct X features were disabled, so I just enabled them, clicked the test buttons to make sure they worked, and viola! Photosynth!

Panther in the Den replied on November 10, 2008 02:09 to the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

I met all the requirements and still had trouble until I restarted my computer and everything worked well.

Thanks!

A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 :)

poppy1944 replied on September 28, 2008 20:38 to the problem "it's not working - is it my graphics card?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

I posted a blog under another problem. This reply might work for other people who are having problems with "We wish this...." and video card trouble. I purchased two video cards for testing as my computer has onboard video (VIA/S3). The card with nVidia chips and drivers worked after installing the card and configuring everything. Happy. I then installed a more expensive Diamond ATI Radeon x1050 card and all the drivers. Did not work with Photosynth until I picked the correct driver. I do get a message about this driver not supporting all features of the card, but it works with Photosynth. Happy. Ready for this --- I moved over to my wifes old Dell Precision 340 computer, installed Photosynth and it ran perfectly. The video chip in the 340 is a nVidia chipset and drivers. Maybe we all need nVidia video cards.
Good luck to all.

A comment on the problem "Which are the Photosynth system requirements?" in Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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..

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