Visual Studio 2012 cannot be started after upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8

Question

I recently upgraded my version of Windows 7 to Windows 8 pro. Everything went smoothly, and all programs and services (including the SQL server) work fine, except for Visual Studio: it stops working and continues to show the message "Microsoft Visual Studio Professional has stopped working ... Windows will close the program and let you know if solution available. "

What I can not do:

• I can't start the debugger because ... it calls VS 2012 to debug
• I can not delete VS 2012 (same message)
• I cannot reinstall VS 2012 from its original CD (same message)
• I can’t even do it in safe mode (after forcibly restarting the Windows Installer service)

What I've done:

• Google for similar problems
• clean the registry, etc.

• check the application log for this error:

  • Invalid application name: vs_professional.exe, version: 11.0.50727.1, timestamp: 0x4fd9f28c
  • Invalid module name: igdumd32.dll, version: 9.17.10.2932, timestamp: 0x50c92441
  • Exception Code: 0xc0000005
  • Error Offset: 0x0001a56a
  • Failure Process ID: 0x1988
  • Application Failure Time: 0x01ce35224e886a32
  • Application path failure: C: \ vs \ vs_professional.exe
  • Fault-tolerant module path: C: \ WINDOWS \ SYSTEM32 \ igdumd32.dll

What I haven't done yet:

• make a new installation of Windows 8 (or 7)

I hope someone can give me an idea ...

PS: Windows 7 was En-US, and Windows 8 was En-En. We can say that there is no reason for this to have an impact ... but ... who knows?

Answer 1

This is apparently a problem with the graphics driver.

Look here , here and here .

A few suggested solutions on these pages:

• Graphics Driver Update
• DisableHWAcceleration = 1 (useful if you cannot update drivers for any reason)
• Rollback to a previous version of the driver (or in your case, uninstall and reinstall with an older version)