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

Mine was faulting ltc_game32-96675.dll which is from the AMD Raptor overlay. Unloading that allowed me to install without crashing.

Answer 2

I was having the same problem (and it was killing me!). I solved it going to Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Turn off windows features, then I Disabled Microsoft Framework 3.5 and then It worked! Of course, when you finished the installation, you should turn it on as it was before. Hope this helps! Bst Regards!

Answer 3

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.

Sincerely,

Answer 4

Another solution to go through the installer with UI is to disable any hardware acceleration (and reenable it afterwards)

(windows 7) Go to Display, Screen Resolution, Advanced Settings, TroubleShoot, Change Settings Set the slider for Hardware Acceleration to none, and accept.

The visual studio setup ui should be fine now.

Answer 5

I had issues installing VS2013 the log referred to framework 4.5 problems. I attempted to fix this a number of times and then gave up.

I then went to Microsoft website 4.5.1 framework download and now its installed.

Hope that helps

Geoff

Answer 6

In our case installing Sp1 for Windows 7 helped.