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

For me, the problem was the stupid AMD 'Raptr' utility that installs with the AMD driver. Literally having this running was crashing the Visual studio installer:

From the Application Log viewer:

Faulting application name: en_visual_studio_professional_2013_with_update_5_x86_web_install, version: 12.0.40629.0, time stamp: 0x544ac542 Faulting module name: ltc_game32-103398.dll, version: 1.0.0.1, time stamp: 0x560b0dcc Exception code: 0xc0000417 Fault offset: 0x000aa069 Faulting process id: 0x2334 Faulting application start time: 0x01d1089e82a903a4 Faulting application path: c:\Users[myusername]\Downloads\en_visual_studio_professional_2013_with_update_5_x86_web_installer_6815765.exe Faulting module path: C:\PROGRA~2\Raptr\ltc_game32-103398.dll Report Id: 6977618d-4f5f-40a2-b3a7-f34876626ea7 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:

Seems utterly ridiculous, but as soon as I shut Raptr down, the installer worked fine.

Nothing like 2 days of fighting with the installer to figure this out.

Sigh.