2015 won't work with 2014 scene

[Pancho]

No idea what happens. I load my 2014 scene, I get an "emFluid5" not installed error (but who cares) and then my scene appears. Unfortunately none of the buttons of my interface will highlight when I hover over them nor can I "save as" my scene or install add ons. Sometimes the menus appear, but as soon as I press e.g. "save as" and a menu should appear in a floating window SI freezes (and no menu is showing up).

Anybody an idea what's wrong or what I can do?

Cheers
Thomas

[Pancho]

Probably it got to do with the Custom Parameter Sets. Somehow in 2015 there are more option for each parameter. Seems to work differently than before.

[FXDude]

Can anyone confirm this?, Can't install addons? Broken custom parameters? sounds pretty serious.

Is it an issue particular to a specific setup?

[Pancho]

The scene consists of a simple object with strands on it.

THe overall performance is horrible. Dragging the SI window across the desktop end in stutter. Menus take a minute to pop up. No idea what's going on. I deleted the Custom Parameter Set, but still no drastic change. 2014 doesn't make any problems. Is the anything one can delete? Something like in Modo, when preferences have gone bad?

I didn't work with 2015 seriously yet, so hard to tell whether it is this scene. I already cleared the scene and loaded only a model to avoid trouble, but somehow there's still a worm in the apple. But I can't tell where and why.

[Pancho]

O.k., I open my scene. The furry thing appears on screen.

First odd thing. None of my buttons react to the mouse pointer over it. When pressing the mouse button, the menus appear, but graphically I don't get the feedback that there is something I can press.

I'll try to install the latest GPU drivers first, before investing further. Recently installed a second Titan. Probably it is related to that.

[FXDude]

Yes I'd be surprised if it wasnt something up with your seemingly pretty particular setup, otherwise it would have turned-up way sooner, I recall on the list someone having driver issues as well, you might want to search there..

Good Luck!

[Pancho]

Thanks! Just updated to the latest drivers, but the problem more or less remains. Feels fishy!

[FXDude]

Perhaps some residual placebo effect?

But man.. your setup may be particular, but still leaves me envious!

[mattmos]

I had some issues with strands (a couple of kristinka nodes) in 2015, would crash out completely. Not sure if it would cause interface issues like you're having though. For the most part my scenes work ok from 2014 to 2015, and I'm also running dual titans (driver 344.11 currently).

[forton]

Make sure the plugins are installed and the licenses are running, when I load my scenes with topolizer, fluid, without rlm running, I get warnings of icetrees not being able to evaluate, and my scene gets sluggish, one scene with mootzoid's roads tool crashed when loaded in 2015, had to freeze the geo.
2015 works fine for me, I don't really see more bugs than 2014, just make sure the old selectionmethod is active ("set XSI_DISABLE_NEW_PICK=1" in setenv.bat), otherwise you won't be able to select things in raycast.

Cheers, Wim