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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] Bug Reporting => [Max] Resolved Bugs => Topic started by: DanGrover on 2016-05-17, 17:23:37

Title: CoronaUtils2016.dlt failed to initialize on Windows Server 2012R2 - Corona 1.4
Post by: DanGrover on 2016-05-17, 17:23:37

Hi guys,

We just upgraded to Corona 1.4 and we're loving it so far! It's working perfectly on all our workstations which run everything between Windows 7 and Windows 10. Max 2016 SP1.

However, we also have some servers that use Windows Server 2012R2 and whilst 1.2.1 and 1.3 worked fine, 1.4 offers me the following error in the Backburner server window (I have no Max license on these nodes so I can't actually launch Max in UI mode):

(http://i.imgur.com/jQrtVWo.jpg)

The installation does the "installing additional magic" redistributable and offers no errors. I went to the Windows website and tried to update it manually but it said I already had it installed. I installed all the Windows updates I could and it runs (in a virtualised environment) Xeon E5-2670's.

I just uninstalled 1.4 and went back to 1.3 and that worked without problem.

Any thoughts?

Title: Re: CoronaUtils2016.dlt failed to initialize on Windows Server 2012R2 - Corona 1.4
Post by: Ondra on 2016-05-17, 17:46:03

Can you try running Corona 1.3 benchmark on the nodes and report if it works?

Title: Re: CoronaUtils2016.dlt failed to initialize on Windows Server 2012R2 - Corona 1.4
Post by: DanGrover on 2016-05-17, 17:49:13

Hi Ondra,

It doesn't!

apt-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing!

Thanks,
Dan

Title: Re: CoronaUtils2016.dlt failed to initialize on Windows Server 2012R2 - Corona 1.4
Post by: DanGrover on 2016-05-17, 17:52:54

Ok, I ran this (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226) for Windows Server 2012R2 and now the 1.3 benchmark works. I'll test shortly with 1.4...

Edit: An Amazon cr1.8xlarge machines gets the following Benchmark, btw, in case anyone's interested:

Corona 1.3 Benchmark Finished
BTR Scene 16 passes
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (x2)
 Real CPU Frequency [GHz]: 2.6
Render Time: 0:01:46, Rays/sec: 4,580,370

Title: Re: CoronaUtils2016.dlt failed to initialize on Windows Server 2012R2 - Corona 1.4
Post by: Ondra on 2016-05-17, 18:00:21

yep, that is the usual "windows updates needed" case

Title: Re: CoronaUtils2016.dlt failed to initialize on Windows Server 2012R2 - Corona 1.4
Post by: DanGrover on 2016-05-17, 18:15:54

Yup, it's working fine now - how strange! I ran a full Windows update on it earlier :(

Ah well - thanks, Ondra!