I was looking for a Lightroom 5 Beta forum but am unable to find one. Today, I downloaded and installed LR5 Beta on my new HP Envy 64-bit Windows 8 machine. After running an installation, I started the program. At first, it asked about opening a catalogue during which time I created a new one as I have no intention of using my LR4 catalogue for LR5B. After creating the catalogue, it stated the following:
"Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 64-bit has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."
After it closed, I tried opening it again. Same result. No matter how many times I tried, the program would not open. I tried reinstalling the program to no avail using the "repair" feature. Finally, I just removed the program.
Windows 8 Home Premium (x64) (build 9200)
Hewlett-Packard h8-1534
Asset Tag: 4CE306029F
Enclosure Type: Desktop
3.80 gigahertz AMD FX-6200 Six-Core
No memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (3 total)
Hyper-threaded (6 total)
1498.41 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
1100.84 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller
Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (3x)
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (4x)
Texas Instruments USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller
Board: Gigabyte 2AC8 1.2
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: AMI v8.10 12/03/2012
Administrator account
I hope I have supplied enough information for resolution. If not, please let me know what additional information is needed.