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Windows 7 - 32-bit editions The good news: they did it right - it just works. So far, we've installed PD Particles as well as PD Pro 4 and their latest respective updates on a 32-bit Vista Ultimate, and found no major issues. In one case, we installed in a dedicated folder outside of the Program Files folder, i.e. in a subfolder under 'My Documents'. In another case we simply accepted the default folder of the installer. Worked like a charm. Well, almost... read on. Unexpected Error - Quitting? easy solution fix Installation of the baseline PD Pro 4.0 worked fine, and running the program showed no issues. Thereafter, installing the 4.1 update over the 4.0 installation worked fine as well, but there was a problem launching the program after succesfull application of the 4.1 update. Note that the program worked fine right after installing 4.0, but now it reported this error: This is due to the fact that PD Pro wants to create a new subfolder, but it doesn't have permission to do so, and so it fails. However, you can very easily give it the right permission: Simply run the program (at least once) as Administrator:  Right-click the icon (desktop shortcut, or the one from the Start menu, or even the dogwaffle.exe icon inside the installed folder), and select "Run As Administrator". In our testing, this allowed v4.1 to create the sub-folder it wanted and to continue just fine. We were also able from then on to launch the program the normal way, without running it as Adminisitrator again. Also, the menu item  Animation->Create... did NOT cause a crash. That is an issue only under the 64-bit edition, and you can find the workaround here.

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Windows 7 - 64-bit editions The 64-bit version of Windows 7, just like Windows Vista, have two sets of program folders. There's the 64-bit native collection, and another folder for 32-bit (x86) versions. Thus, you will want to choose where to install it. Dogwaffle is not a native 64-bit application, so you would want to install it in the (x86) version of the Program Files folder. Installing the Update Patch(es) Furthermore, some of the update patches will not know automatically where to switch their default folder to. You will have to use the Browse button during the update patch installation, to point the installer to the right folder where the baseline version was installed. Also, depending on the many configuration options of your particular installation of Windows 7, including rights administration and UAC, there's a chance that you might need to run the the installers of Dogwaffle and/or the updaters As Administrator.  Example: Launching the PD Particles installer as Administrator: Installing in 'My Documents' It may be of interest that perhaps a simpler way to install it is not to let it go into the default Program Files folder, including the x86 version. Instead, you could choose to install into a folder of your own designation, one that you create yourself, and one for which you don't have access restrictions because you created the folder in an area that you control and own without restrictions, such as the "My Documents" folder. Animation -> Create causes crash  -  workaround solution We have released a separate alternate plugin to create new animations from. This is to offer an alternative to the usual way, from the Animation>Create... menu, since it has been observed under Windows Vista 64-bit already (and again confirmed under Windows 7 64-bit) that using the normal method crashed Dogwaffle. The workaround is to use the plugin named CreateAnimation, listed in the freebies/plugins area.