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It has been a long time since I actually purchased major commercial software, and now I know why.
$100 bucks for Premiere Elements 3.0, and it fulfilled my prophecy about payware … doesn’t work.
System:
AMD FX-55
2 Gigs PC3200 RAM
2 x 84GB Raptors 10K in Raid 0 (around 160Gb total)
500GB Firewire Drive
OnBoard Nvidea Sound with newest Drivers
2 x Nvidia 6800Ultra Video Cards
Certainly well exceeds the system requirements on the box.
Installation went fine. No problems at all.
But I click the icon to launch the program, the splash screen comes up, it starts loading supporting files in the splash screen and so on … then after 5 seconds … it disappears. The program just unceremoniously closes. Period. That’s it.
I bought a $100 splash screen.
I have spent a week reading through all of the support forums, I have updated every driver that exists on my system to the latest and greatest driver … but every time I launch the program, all I get is a 5 second splash screen. Sweet.
Oh yeah, and you can’t return opened software either. Double Sweet.
But wait, there’s more, since the program doesn’t work whatsoever, I can actually pay Adobe additional money to perhaps tell me why it doesn’t work. Triple sweet.
I realize that there are thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people who find this reasonable, which is why I am going to buy ADBE stock as soon as I am done with this post (I am not kidding). You can burn a CD with a splash screen only for .50, sell it for $100, refuse to return it, then charge people a variety of additional prices to try to get it to work … no guarantees of success of course … and you keep the cash.
This has to be the greatest business model on the planet. Again, I am not kidding.
Nobody has ever gone broke by investing in the companies that screw them.
But before I go ahead and try to sell this worthless CD to some poor idiot on Ebay who will no doubt scrub his entire hard drive and try to reinstall everything piece by piece to get a single application to function, I thought I would try the last bastion of the truly desperate …. Usenet.
Oh sure, I am going to get flamed, called names, have the size of my penis and my sexuality questioned, a few jabs at my IQ will be taken, and perhaps there is a completely new orifice that I will be told which to fuck myself in … but hey … it’s Usenet. I would expect no less.
But, if there is any chance that *some* light could be shed on the issue in between the feces that shall be flung my way, hey, I’ll take it.
Does anybody, anywhere, have any idea why despite every driver upgrade imaginable, that Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 just closes after the splash screen?
Thanks!
It has been a long time since I actually purchased major commercial software, and now I know why.
$100 bucks for Premiere Elements 3.0, and it fulfilled my prophecy about payware … doesn’t work.
System:
AMD FX-55
2 Gigs PC3200 RAM
2 x 84GB Raptors 10K in Raid 0 (around 160Gb total)
500GB Firewire Drive
OnBoard Nvidea Sound with newest Drivers
2 x Nvidia 6800Ultra Video Cards
Certainly well exceeds the system requirements on the box.
Installation went fine. No problems at all.
But I click the icon to launch the program, the splash screen comes up, it starts loading supporting files in the splash screen and so on … then after 5 seconds … it disappears. The program just unceremoniously closes. Period. That’s it.
I bought a $100 splash screen.
I have spent a week reading through all of the support forums, I have updated every driver that exists on my system to the latest and greatest driver … but every time I launch the program, all I get is a 5 second splash screen. Sweet.
Oh yeah, and you can’t return opened software either. Double Sweet.
But wait, there’s more, since the program doesn’t work whatsoever, I can actually pay Adobe additional money to perhaps tell me why it doesn’t work. Triple sweet.
I realize that there are thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people who find this reasonable, which is why I am going to buy ADBE stock as soon as I am done with this post (I am not kidding). You can burn a CD with a splash screen only for .50, sell it for $100, refuse to return it, then charge people a variety of additional prices to try to get it to work … no guarantees of success of course … and you keep the cash.
This has to be the greatest business model on the planet. Again, I am not kidding.
Nobody has ever gone broke by investing in the companies that screw them.
But before I go ahead and try to sell this worthless CD to some poor idiot on Ebay who will no doubt scrub his entire hard drive and try to reinstall everything piece by piece to get a single application to function, I thought I would try the last bastion of the truly desperate …. Usenet.
Oh sure, I am going to get flamed, called names, have the size of my penis and my sexuality questioned, a few jabs at my IQ will be taken, and perhaps there is a completely new orifice that I will be told which to fuck myself in … but hey … it’s Usenet. I would expect no less.
But, if there is any chance that *some* light could be shed on the issue in between the feces that shall be flung my way, hey, I’ll take it.
Does anybody, anywhere, have any idea why despite every driver upgrade imaginable, that Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 just closes after the splash screen?
Thanks!
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