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ptc-55229701-Visitor
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December 27, 2014
Question

creo 3.0 not opening after install

  • December 27, 2014
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I have just installed Creo 3 student version and I cannot get it running at all. Specifically, clicking shortcut icons or windows start menu icons does nothing, the only confirmation that I get from my computer that i clicked those icons is that I get a little loading circle by my pointer for about a second and thats it. Nothing opens, no apps launch, no processes or services lunch, nothing. I have triend reinstalling and I have tried updating my graphics driver and neither has helped.

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
December 27, 2014

Maulik,

do you have desktop or notebook ?

what graphic card is installed in your computer ?

what OS is installed on your computer ?

di you use Creo 2.0 ?

Martin Hanak

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ptc-55229701-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
December 28, 2014

I have sony vaio notebook with windows 8 64 bit and AMD RADEON HD 7650 graphics card 1 GB and i have installed creo 3.0 student edition

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
December 29, 2014

Maulik,

your notebook could be able to run Creo 3.0.

Notes:

1.) Create config.pro file in your startup directory using Notepad. Add the following line into it and launch Creo.

graphics win32_gdi

2.) On of my colleagues is not able to start Creo 3.0 on his notebook, too. Unfortunatelly we didn't find the source of the problem. The only solution "Install Windows from the scratch" is not acceptable for him.

Martin Hanak

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jninan1-Visitor
1-Visitor
March 28, 2016

Same for me

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ageorge1-Visitor
1-Visitor
May 10, 2016

I was also struggling with the same issue. Tried everything, reinstalled thrice and cleared all registry entries related to PTC. No luck.

But, at last I found a work around. I got so frustrated and kept on double clicking on the program shortcut on the desktop. To my surprise, Creo started up and everything was running fine. But, now everytime I want to startup the software, I keep on double clicking until I see the application opening up.

Hope that helps someone struggling with the issue.

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    srauh1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    August 22, 2016

    Based on Ajith's solution I wrote a little batch script which will open Creo after a while:

    @echo off
    

    Set "MyProcess=xtop.exe"
    

    echo "%MyProcess%"
    

    :loop
    

    tasklist /NH /FI "imagename eq %MyProcess%" 2>nul |find /i "%MyProcess%" >nul
    

    If not errorlevel 1 (Echo "%MyProcess%" is running) else (
    

        start "" "C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 3.0\M070\Parametric\bin\Parametric.exe" 
    

        goto loop
    

        )

    Paste this in notepad and replace C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 3.0\M070\Parametric\bin\Parametric.exe with the path to your Parametric executable. Then save it as e.g. ParametricFixed.bat. You now can start Creo Parametric by double clicking on the bat-file

    You also can create an exe out of this bat file (just google "bat to exe" or something) to add an icon and have and exe file.

    Its not the solution of the problem but it treats its symptoms. Hope it helps some of you

    Cheers

    Sebastian

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