An update... I received my Surface Pro and installed Manga Studio 5 on it, runs great. I installed Anime Studio Pro 9 on it, and alas when I try to run it I get an error stating:
"The application has failed to start because it's side by side configuration is incorrect"
I have absolutely zero idea what this means, or how to rectify.
Using AS9 Pro on a Surface Pro
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Re: Using AS9 Pro on a Surface Pro
A solution to have a good freehand tool, although AS is not too bad, it's to use an external vector drawing program (Illustrator, Inkskape...).
In my opinion, the best vector software is MAGIX Photo & Graphic Designer or Xara Designer Pro (the professionnal version of the first one).
Photo & Graphic Designer is not so expensive unlike the pro version or Illustrator for exemple, and it is a realy powerful software.
And for an alternative to the terrible price of the Wacom Cintiq, there is the Yiynova products who not cost 3 arms and 2 legs.
But personnaly i prefer the Wizaerd solution, to buy a Windows tablet with the Wacom technology Inside, although generally there is no management of the inclination.
In my opinion, the best vector software is MAGIX Photo & Graphic Designer or Xara Designer Pro (the professionnal version of the first one).
Photo & Graphic Designer is not so expensive unlike the pro version or Illustrator for exemple, and it is a realy powerful software.
And for an alternative to the terrible price of the Wacom Cintiq, there is the Yiynova products who not cost 3 arms and 2 legs.
But personnaly i prefer the Wizaerd solution, to buy a Windows tablet with the Wacom technology Inside, although generally there is no management of the inclination.
Re: Using AS9 Pro on a Surface Pro
AS is a realy unstable software i deplore, i have a lot of problems too but at least it starts.wizaerd wrote:An update... I received my Surface Pro and installed Manga Studio 5 on it, runs great. I installed Anime Studio Pro 9 on it, and alas when I try to run it I get an error stating:
"The application has failed to start because it's side by side configuration is incorrect"
I have absolutely zero idea what this means, or how to rectify.
Try to update to the latest version of AS to see if it can work, or go report your problem here : viewforum.php?f=2
Re: Using AS9 Pro on a Surface Pro
I reached out to tech support, who helped me out. It turns out that for whatever reason, the 64bit version of the Microsoft Visual C++ runtimes didn't install. Once I manually downloaded and installed it, it started working.
Coming to grips with not using hotkeys (even though there's a keyboard, I'm using the tablet aspect moreso) is challenging, and the UI has some quirkiness as well that is challenging. Otherwise, things appear to be working ok for now.
Coming to grips with not using hotkeys (even though there's a keyboard, I'm using the tablet aspect moreso) is challenging, and the UI has some quirkiness as well that is challenging. Otherwise, things appear to be working ok for now.