Visual Studio 2012 cannot be started after an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8
visual-studio-2012, windows-7, windows-8
Solution
This appears to be a graphics driver issue.
See here, here and here.
A couple of suggested solutions from those pages:
- Update your graphics drivers
- DisableHWAcceleration = 1 (useful if you can't update your drivers for some reason)
- Rollback to a previous driver version (or in your case uninstall and reinstall with an older version)
Problem
I recently upgraded my Windows 7 pro version to a Windows 8 pro version. Everything went smoothly, and all programs and services (including SQL server) are working normaly, except for Visual Studio: it stopped working and keeps on displaying the message "Microsoft Visual Studio professional has stopped working ... Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available". What I cannot do: - I cannot start the debugger because ... it's calling VS 2012 to debug - I cannot uninstall VS 2012 (same message) - I cannot reinstall VS 2012 from its original CD (same message) - I cannot even do that in safe mode (after forcing the restart of Windows Installer Service) What I did: - google for similar problems - cleaned the registry, etc. check the application log, noticing this error: - Faulting application name: vs_professional.exe, version: 11.0.50727.1, time stamp: 0x4fd9f28c - Faulting module name: igdumd32.dll, version: 9.17.10.2932, time stamp: 0x50c92441 - Exception code: 0xc0000005 - Fault offset: 0x0001a56a - Faulting process ID: 0x1988 - Faulting application start time: 0x01ce35224e886a32 - Faulting application path: C:\vs\vs_professional.exe - Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\igdumd32.dll What I still did not do: - make a fresh installation of Windows 8 (or 7) I hope someone could give me an idea ... PS: Windows 7 was En-US, while Windows 8 is En-En. One would say there is no reason for this to have an impact ... but ... who knows?