Kontakt 1.5 won't launch. (Win XP)

Okay, for the lack of any installer read-me, I simply "updated" kontakt 1.2.1. The install went as I'd expect, the registration tool launched, but the application wouldn't load. All I got was a windows error box, asking if I wanted to send an error report.

I'm sure it's my problem, but what am I doing wrong?

Do I need to uninstall the previous version of Kontakt before upgrading?

Is there any form of online install documentation?

Many thanks

Andrew

 

There's a 1-2 days old post in here about this. Can't find it but if I understand right, you can do it either way. If you run into problems, you should uninstall all Kontakt thangs you have. Then, make the 1.5 install on a fresh system. The 1.x is not needed. Also, make backups of your patch/samples that's in the Kontakt dir.

In other words, the "correct" method is to install it on a clean system. (my comment)

 

Thanks for the info.

Has anyone else had any issues launching Kontakt, or even any installation issues?

Regards

Andrew

 

I have the same issue like you. Kontakt doesn't start, he shows up for half a second in the task manager and disappears without any words.

No solve yet, I will try and reinstall maybe tomorrow.

Christian

 

sure, works fine, you have to reinstall. it is already mentioned some posts ago, I was too fast

Christian

 

Hi Christian,

i had the same problem. i did a complete uninstall of kontakt and then i reinstalled the version (1.1) from cd. After that i installed the 1.5 update and it worked.

greetings, lidor.