@J. W. Sargent (NoviceInDisguise) , the parameter allow Blender to run in factory setting. so the issue could be in any add on you enabled / installed or other setting if you run Blender normally. So you could try use a new zip version of Blender, and try enable add-on one by one and see which could be the issue.

Issue has been resolved for now, I am unsure what exactly made this happen, however I am now convinced it is not a bug that can be easily replicated/fixed so a definite solution could be hard to find. For now, try running Blender from the command line with `--factory-startup``` as recommended.

Tested with and without Blender Sensei on latest Blender for Win64 build 2.78.5 (hash 81d7ff8) - Windows 7 64 bit

can't reproduce either, try starting blender with the --factory-startup commandline option and see that resolves the problem.

Win 7 64 bit / GTX 750 / Blender 2.78c

Considering this as fixed for now, then. Thanks for the report.

The issue fixed for me with latest master build. I hope it also fixed for the OP, @Joel Godin (FloridaJo)

@Joel Godin (FloridaJo), please triage a little bit more careful in the future, just because the user is on windows, doesn't mean it's a windows specific issue.

Windows 7 64 bit.

What OS are you on @Fable Fox (fablefox) ?

It caused Blender to close on me. However, next time attached the blend file here instead of external file host.

I had not packed the assets. (Apologies for not saying.)

I'm on OSX. I was able to open the file, but there is no assets in them.
Not sure if you packed them before saving. But that may also be why it is not crashing for me.
I opened, tried to render a few frames, but no assets, no render.
I then saved the file. Try to open this saved file and see what happens.

So not a bug, thanks for the report anyway. :)

Thank you. I didn't realize that that was what was causing it.

Blender doesn't like combining displacement and normal values in Texture slot. Look at your material "Floor Top". Disable Displacement checkbox (left Normal as it is) for "Tiles Displacement" and you get rid of distortion

ok thanks for this detail, i will replace my slash on the fly.

UNC path starts with \\ which should be recognized by Blender. Path starting with // are considered a relative path, so no wonder prefix is being added to the path.

Yeeahhh a big thank YOU Joshua !

There are currently location + rotation keyframes on some of the objects (frames 0 and 33). Try removing all keyframes before fixing the position of all the objects.

We currently do not support rendering on Intel GPUs, are you doing anything special to make the Intel GPU show up in the compute device menu?

Please be more specific:

• Give us your exact Blender, OS and GPU (including drivers) versions, as requested in the template!
• Ensure both your OS and drivers are fully up-to-date (and use official GPU drivers, not those provided by windows or tablet/laptop maker).
• Try the latest build from our buildbot.
• Try to start Blender in factory settings (--factory-startup commandline option) (this will ensure whether this is a userpref or addon issue or not).