Pentagon I (64bit) not working in X2

I am running a Win 7 64 machine and have had no issues with X1. I loaded X2 and pentagon was not found, and then tried in X1, and is also "gone." After a few install issues, I decided to load ONLY Pentagon (from the X2 install) and that worked... but only for that session (last night). Tonight X2 says Pentagon is missing again, but I also tried inserting under the "shared dxi." It starts to create the track, then promptly crashes the audio engine, and X2 goes down hard (meaning not responding at all). I saw a post with a recommendation to the msconfig settings, but that did not seem to help. This is the only plug-in I seem to be having issues with. Does anyone know what is causing this? As an aside, having to unpack the entire X2 producer suite to install one thing is painful. Is there an option to get these separately?

+1 for the above suggestions, 

Bob Bone

>  I did uninstall X1 before installing X2

never uninstall the previous version of any program unless no other choice.

Hi all, thanks for the replies. To answer all the replies here... I think Pentagon registration carried forward from X1, since I do not believe it ever asked me (or I forgot I did this). After my re-install it DID run once without issues. The solution is to ALWAYS run X2 as administrator (it loaded a Pentagon track, no code required when I did this). I went so far as change the X2 shortcut's "Properties -> Compatibility" to "Always run as Administrator" just in case I forget to at some point. As far as X1 and X2 installed... they can be run independently; however, a warning will come up in X1 if loading a file saved with X2. The X2 specific features X1 cannot recognize. I am not sure if then saved if it will mess up the file for X2, so use this with caution if you try it. When I click to add a soft synth, there is a list of 5, divider, then "Beatscape" "Shared DXi" and "vstplugins"... I have Pentagon I also listed under "Shared DXi" and is the only one listed. As for the X2 audio engine suddenly crashing, I am not sure if this was also why (administrator), but will test it over time and see.

The solution is to ALWAYS run X2 as administrator

No its not. Just the first time. 

Out of curiosity, I tried NOT running X2 as administator just now, and Pentagon comes up on the saved file as a "missing plug-in." So, for me, I have to run X2 as adminstrator... I have also had audio engine craashes (i.e. not work at all) for X2 that also went away when I began running as administrator. I need more data on the audio engine to confirm that the run as administrator fixed it.

Bristol_Jonesey
Hmm.

Pentagon runs perfectly fine on my DAW, but on my other machine which is running X2, it's telling me the synth is not installed properly.

I just tried installing it again and the installation aborts with a "code 5"error, whatever the hell that is!

 Code 5 errors often refer to permissions issues.....