ArchiCAD 9 Hotfix now available

[Greg Kmethy]

Dear Talkers,

We have released a hotfix for ArchiCAD 9. It supports most of the existing language versions. For details, please read announcement here:

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/

To acquire the hotfix, go to 'Help' menu of ArchiCAD and click 'Check for updates...'

[Markus Denzlinger]

You have to have administrator rights to install the patch successfully, otherwise the installation fails.

Markus

[David Collins]

NOELDESIGNS wrote:
Does anyone know if this update overwrites personal preferences, etc.

I just installed it and my preferences survived. I think the new work environment profiles solve that problem. You might want to export a copy of your profile, just for luck.

29.9 MB on win int, by the way.

[Ed_Brown]

For laptop users it is important to be physically connected to the primary network of the laptop for the patch to work correctly. The java based installer checks domain authorization and possibly will determine a failed trust relationship between the laptop and the primary domain.

Graphisoft is working at removing this check from the patch installer and hopefully will relax this requirement in the next week, but in the meantime laptop users should be aware that they need to be connected to apply the patch.

If a laptop user has unfortunately already applied the patch while off-line or on a secondary domain and determined that AC no longer runs, the only remedy we have discovered is the following:
0. Connect to the primary network of the laptop
1. Uninstall ArchiCAD
2. Reboot
3. Install ArchiCAD
4. Reboot
5. Run ArchiCAD
6. Reboot
7. Run Patch

Ed Brown

[__archiben]

Ed wrote:
For laptop users it is important to be physically connected to the primary network of the laptop for the patch to work correctly. The java based installer checks domain authorization and possibly will determine a failed trust relationship between the laptop and the primary domain

hey ed!

i take it that for solo laptop users (like myself) with no network authorization, that the 'primary domain' is the laptop's own system and there will be no problems . . . ?

cheers
~/archiben

[Ed_Brown]

Ben,
If your laptop or computer does not have a login to a network with a domain server then you are okay. More importantly, when the original install of AC was run there was no domain authorization going on with any of the installed files.

To be absolutely sure. Login into your laptop as "Administrator" and of course you will then have to use the password that Windows gave you or to which you changed the password for the user named "Administrator" (note this is not a user name with administrative rights -- this IS the administrator for your laptop.). As administrator the patch should run without any trouble.

Work is being done on the installer of the patch to relax this authorization requirement and most likely a new installer will be put to our update site within the next week or so. If the errors corrected by the patch are not absolutely vital to you, you may wish to wait until a new installer is uploaded.

Hope this helps,
Ed Brown

[__archiben]

cheers ed!

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[Djordje]

Ed,

Ed wrote:
For laptop users it is important to be physically connected to the primary network of the laptop for the patch to work correctly. The java based installer checks domain authorization and possibly will determine a failed trust relationship between the laptop and the primary domain.

Is it possible that the same problem happens to a desktop user where the primary DNS and the whole server in fact was changed since the original 9 installation? One of my colleagues here had a mysterious failure of the patch on XP, office network, and this info prompted me to think this might be a reason. Greg has the info.

Hm?

[Anonymous]

So, I was put these post also in other place but this more adequate

Yeeeeeeee, this hotfix - fixed some older bugs but generated some news. For example in polish version including bug in meander, other problem is animation with lightsworks engine, when placed some library parts with alpha chanell. All bugs are in polish version of these paths.

Best Regards
Paweł

[Ed_Brown]

Djordje,

Yes the problem is the same. Domain problems. The method is somewhat similar to the laptop. You must login as "Administrator" of the desktop machine. Do NOT login into the network. Re-install ArchiCAD from CD in the similar fashion that the laptop user must.

Hope this helps.
Ed

[Anonymous]

I just ran the update in the help menu and updated Archicad 9 now it will not start up. It gives me an error message:

Application Launch Failure
The application "ArchiCAD" could not be launched because of a shared library error: "T<ArchiCAD><ArchiCAD><ElementManagerLib><IsInMarki__Q23EDB11GeneralElemCFPC7SelTypes>"