After installing the student's version of AutoCAD and Inventor, they both work correctly. But each time I attempt to add Simulation CFD to the mix, the installation hangs towards the final segment, my PC freezes and I have to power off. By the time I restart, both AutoCAD and Inventor would no longer work, but would display a licence error.
I have tried this using both the 2013 and 2014 versions of the softwares. Each time this happens, I have to do a system restore and uninstall every Autodesk software on my PC, delete the folders and start all over again.
What could be the problem?
I use a 64bit Windows 8 Pro laptop with 4gb of RAM
When the installation fails, what does it say in the log file? There has been cases where the installation had failed because of the conflict with one of the pre-requisites like Visual C++ redistributable etc. You may refer this post if this helps: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Installation-Licensing/Some-Products-Fail-to-Install-Result-1603/td-p/...
Also, after installation if you receive an error message that says "Cannot initialize license manager: ADLM: Startup Failed", you can also refer a work around for this known issue here :http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2012/07/cannot-initialize-license-manager-adlm-startup-fa...
Be aware that Windows 8.1 is not supported with SimCFD 2014, as Dan pointed out but Windows 8 is supported. Sometimes it helps to uninstall the VC++ redistributable before installing the SimCFD. THis way you remove one possible conflict during the installation...