Can't install visual studio 2013 on windows 7

Question

I downloaded the ISO file of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate on the Microsoft MSDN website. I could install it on my home PC running Windows 8.1 without problems. However

Answer 1

You may want to double check and ensure your video driver(s) are up to date, as there have been reports of the installer and the IDE crashing on startup, that are due to issues related to WPF's use of hardware acceleration.

I've seen a few issues resolved by disabling hardware acceleration via the registry key mentioned in the MSDN forum post : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/ee8e5918-877f-4399-9658-64e817d6ea1b/visual-studio-2013-crashes-on-setup?forum=vssetup.

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