Hi! I love the idea of PixelCNC & I'd like to try it & possibly buy it... However, my Windows PC is currently on the fritz with hardware problems. I have Parallels (& Windows 10) on my Macbook, but I can't seem to get it to run the latest PixelCNC trial (v.1.39a 64-bit).

I unzipped the folder to C:\pixelcnc so the full path of the exe is C:\pixelcnc\PixelCNC (64-bit)\PixelCNC Trial.exe. When I try to run it, a PixelCNC window opens and is white for a few seconds, then becomes entirely black with no error messages. I got the "this is alpha software" message on first open, and the "thanks for trying PixelCNC" message when I quit, but can't seem to make anything other than a black screen appear in the main program window. I have also tried to run by right clicking the exe > "Run as administrator" but no luck.

Any ideas for things I could try or are there any error logs I could send? I'm mostly a Mac person so it would be great to get this working as I'm not sure when my PC will be back in commission... Thanks!

-Dan

Hi Dan, it sounds like an OpenGL compatibility issue. If you can track down where your log files are (on a Windows machine it's c:\Users\[user]\AppData\Charles Van Noland\PixelCNC\) there should be some useful information in them. Typically though when people try to run PixelCNC via WINE on Linux they tend to have problems with OpenGL compatibility, so I would not be surprised if that were the case with other forms of emulated/virtualized Windows instances. PixelCNC makes extensive use of multithreading to leverage multicore CPUs, and employs threaded OpenGL functionality that is not typical for most programs out there - which only use it for drawing to the program window from a single thread. If you can find your log files on there they may contain some useful hints that can help us figure out a solution. Whatever we can do to maximize compatibility for the various setups people are running is always something worth investigating. For now though PixelCNC has only been tested to work on systems running Windows natively, from Windows 7 through Windows 10.

- Charlie