Revit 2010 will not start

[rob.127056]

We have been running Revit 2010 for a year and now all of a sudden it will not start. The Revit splash screen appears then it seems to just stop opening. Anyone know how to fix this? We unloaded a reloaded Revit but that did not work. It seems this has been a problem for past versions but I have not seen a solution for 2010. any ideas?
Thanks.

[Alfredo Medina]

It could be a number of things... one of them might be hardware acceleration settings; that's a common culprit for that type of issue. Give it a try. The following link contains instructions about how to change that settings in Windows XP and Windows Vista:
http://www.pixelmetrics.com/Tips/Vid...celeration.php

[eric.piotrowicz]

If its graphics related you might want to check your Revit.ini file for these two entries.
UseGraphicsHardware=0
SuppressGraphicsHardwareWarning=1

I'm not completely convinced its graphics though since I had a similar issue in 2009 and strating with a clean .ini file didn't fix the problem, Also if you chance the Hardware Acceration through WIndows it affects your entire system graphics which would effectively be the same as throwing your graphics card in the circular file and using the on board graphics port.
If a fresh install didn't help at all it could be a licensing problem like Revit is having trouble talking to the license server or the license serve isn't playing nicely.

[rob.127056]

The hardware acceleration settings didn't work. What I don't understand is one day it was working and the next day it stopped. I don't get why changing some settings would make it work since those settings have been the same for the past year.

[Hagbard]

Had the same issue here yesterday. I performed a clean uninstall of Revit Architecture 2010 (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...linkID=9243099) and then reinstalled it. Seems to have resolved the problem.

[morrisonp]

OK....I have a lab of 25 stand-alones running Revit 2010 ...same exact machines, hardware etc.....last thursday one group of kids shut down Revit ...three minutes later another group started REVIT....(didn't even shut off machines)-Three machines would not load REVIT
Have the same problem listed in the thread....splash screen for 10-20 seconds then nothing.
Did a complete uninstall/reinstall-nothing.
I just had another one with the same problem .....that makes four.

I loaded REVIT MEP on one of the "broken" computers....loaded and runs fine.

Thoughts?
Thanks

[rob.127056]

Hagbard,
Thanks your link worked, although it was a royal pain in the...!

[Hagbard]

Maybe this works as a solution too: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...P=OTC-RSSSUP01

Haven't tried it myself though.

[rwintz]

Thanks Hagbard, we had this problem, and the autodesk link fixed our issue!

[rkitect]

Wanted to confirm, coworker had this same issue and the fix in the link above worked.

Thanks for the post.