Silverlight 5 & Windows 7 x64 issue

Van Diemen · 29 Mar 2012 at 22:43

Logged in to the SkyGo homepage today after a fair few months.

Was prompted to install the Silverlight 5 update. Followed the link & installed Silverlight 5.

Since then no Silverlight content including the SkyGo content is playing.

SkyGo site displays a white box where the silverlight content should be

Bing Videos displays a black box where the silverlight content should be.

As soon as I revert to Silverlight 4, all besides the SkyGo content starts to work.

(SkyGo is simply forcing me to update Sliverlight)

I'm on Window 7 64-bit.

Any ideas?

marc2003 · 30 Mar 2012 at 05:13

i don't have sky go but i do have silverlight 5 installed and bing videos work fine. (windows 7 64bit, obviously)

tested in waterfox 11 (64bit) and IE9 (32bit)

i got my installer from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=229321

Van Diemen · 31 Mar 2012 at 01:20

For some reason Silverlight 5 will not work for me

Azuse05 · 31 Mar 2012 at 03:16

Silverlight is crap. Gpu acceleration doesn't work, it turns to a slid show if you get a uac prompt, get's few updates (5 has been out since Christmas) and they take months to even tell you. However seeing as there aren't any silverlight download tools (like flash) everyone is using it. As soon as one of those appears we'' be forced onto something else.

I honestly never thought I'd see the day where I wanted to have flash back. At least it works and is getting regular (automatic) updates.

Van Diemen · 31 Mar 2012 at 05:03

It's funny as Silverlight 4 works without any issues. But SL5 just will not work.

philds · 31 Mar 2012 at 21:59

One of many reasons why it's got the nickname of Silvers**te at work.

Paulie · 4 Apr 2012 at 13:22

After 2 hours of trying to upgrade SL from v4 to v5 I came across an .exe that didn't fail during installation (no extract or wrong OS version error). The .exe from MS site did not work, and why would it as it's only a MS product. Anyway if anyone here is also having issues installing SL v5 (I'm on Vista 64bit) then try getting this version from download.com. Finally I've sorted this in time for the Masters

http://download.cnet.com/Microsoft-Silverlight/3000-2378_4-190345.html?tag=mncol;1

Van Diemen · 22 Apr 2012 at 20:46

Finally fixed my issue

the problem was SilverLight 5 and..... wait for it...... fonts with an ampersand "&" in the name (e.g. K&N font).

I searched for fonts with an ampersand in their nam, found 5 and deleted them.

Worked a charm!!! Sounds wired but believe me... it works.