Autodesk Revit Architecture Services & Support

RevitMFC.dll error when launching Revit 2010 products

Published date: 2009-Sep-25
ID: TS13641549

Applies to:
Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2010
Autodesk® Revit® MEP 2010
Autodesk® Revit® Structure 2010

Issue

When launching Revit 2010 products you receive the following error:

Revit then fails to start.

Solution

Please verify if your computer's processor utilizes the SSE2 instruction set.  This issue can be caused by a processor that is incompatible with this Instruction set. 

Please referr to our system requirements page.  Autodesk Revit 2010 products require a Intel® Pentium® 4 1.4 GHz processor, which supports SSE2, or a equivalent AMD® processor.   

If you still encounter this problem utilizing a processor with SSE2, please attempt the following and contact Autodesk Product Support or your local reseller for assistance:

  1. Verify that the file adui18res.dll exists in the Revit program directory, typically C:\Program Files\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010\Program
  2. On the machine experiencing this error, attempt to install the Revit product from the product DVD, instead of a electronic download

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