MATLAB: ” requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way”

c++ runtimeMATLABstartup errorvirtumvp

Freshly installed MATLAB on Windows 7, 64Bit.
  • If I select the MATLAB shortcut in the Start Menu, I get a windows error saying the following:
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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
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Runtime Error!
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Program: C:\MATLAB7\bin\win32\MATLAB.exe
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This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.
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  • If I go to the directory C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2012b\bin and start using the matlab.exe located there, Matlab starts but the command window displays a lot of errors:
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Cannot find function, getDefaultUserFolder, in library services.
Warning: MATLAB did not appear to successfully set the search path. To recover for this session of MATLAB, type "restoredefaultpath;matlabrc". To find out how to avoid this warning the next time you start MATLAB, type "docsearch problem path" after recovering for this session.
Warning: Duplicate directory name: C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2012b\toolbox\local
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and so on an so forth.
SafeMode, -nojvm, -shield none all yield the exact same behaviour, and it occurred at least with Matlab 64bit 2012b and 2011b.

Best Answer

...and I'll just answer my own question, in case somebody else has the same problem and Google leads here: The culprit is another program, Lucid Logix's VirtuMVP Version 2.1.115.23214. It's an application that enables some teamwork between iGPU and dedicated GPU and ships with some Asus Motherboards, maybe with others, too. (off-topic: it does improve performance quite drastically, at least in Crysis...) Anyway, I installed Version 2.1.111.20856 and the problem is gone. Go figure, but I'm glad everything is working fine now.
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