Premiere Pro won't launch in Vista Ultimate 32Bit

[Renat Zarbailov]

I just built a new workstation which has Intel Core 2 Extreme, 4GB Ram, one drive set in RAID0 for video editing, scratch disk drive, c:drive 10,00rpm 150GB WD, PNY nVIDIA QUATRO FX1500 with stable drivers for it. Installed Premiere Pro 2.0 , launched it, saw the Premiere loading splash screen for about 15 seconds and that was it... The program never opened up despite the processor light blinking as if any second it will.
My motherboard BIOS is up-to-date for this particular quad processor and everything else seems to work great, even After Effects 7 loaded and works great. One issue with Vista though, it says I have only 3GB of Ram instead of installed 4GB, BIOS says 4GB, but not Windows.
Does anyone have the same issue?

Any comments/suggestions are highly appreciated.

Thanks

[Bart Walczak]

32-bit version of Vista is, well, 32-bit, which means it has the same memory constraints as Windows XP. Up to 3 GBs.

[Renat Zarbailov]

Originally Posted by Bart Walczak

32-bit version of Vista is, well, 32-bit, which means it has the same memory constraints as Windows XP. Up to 3 GBs.

Even in Vista Ultimate 32Bit? Good thing the package came with 64Bit as well.

[Rob Lohman]

The 'problem' exists due to how the 32-bit architecture are setup and hardware
like a graphics card is addressed, more info on some of this:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...AE/PAEmem.mspx
http://forums.contractoruk.com/showp...3&postcount=40
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;555223
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=42545

By far the best thing to do is run a 64-bit OS if you 64-bit drivers exist for that
OS (XP64 or Vista 64-bit). Most 32-bit applications should continue to run if they
run on the 32-bit version.

For your Premiere Pro problem I would navigate to the main executable,
right-click and select "run as administrator". See if that fixes your problem.

Otherwise you can also set properties to run it in XP "emulation" mode. See
if that fixes your problem. Otherwise you'll have to wait for a Premiere update
that adds Vista support.

[Ervin Farkas]

Renat,

Save yourself the headache and read this: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=85733.

[Jiri Fiala]

I run PPro 2.0 on Vista 32bit with no problems at all (but I have just 1,5 GB RAM). The same goes for AFX, but it temporarily disables DWM Aero Glass. No biggie.

[Renat Zarbailov]

Originally Posted by Jiri Fiala

I run PPro 2.0 on Vista 32bit with no problems at all (but I have just 1,5 GB RAM). The same goes for AFX, but it temporarily disables DWM Aero Glass. No biggie.

I resolved the issue by reverting back to the time before Premiere install and installed Quicktime first before going ahead with installing Premiere again. I remembered that the first time I installed it it says that Quicktime isn't on the system so it will install without it, so this might have caused the issue as well as not restarting the system when Premiere asked for it after install.

Thanks everyone who was so kind to help!!!