MATLAB crash on Windows 8 64-bit with AMD A8-6410

I'm relatively new to MATLAB, and my research professor has me using it to run simulations and such. The program and its subprograms work fine on the university desktops, which are connected to an Intel Xeon processor, I believe, but when I try to run them on my laptop (the AMD machine) I get the "Illegal Instruction" error message and the crash dump that comes with it. I've seen some ways to go about fixing this, but there are two problems: 1) I don't know too much about MATLAB, and since I'm running it on an academic license through VPN, I don't want to mess anything up; and 2) it's the brand new version of MATLAB (R2015a), so I'm not sure if anything's changed between versions.

Any help would be appreciated. A .txt of the most recent crash dump is attached. Also, as a side note: MATLAB seems to run small, basic computational programs without an issue.

Answer 1

[Andreas Goser]

It looks like this bug report. Try seeting the environment variables as described in the bug report.

Answer 2

[Kayla Cole]

I tried setting the variables as described, but unfortunately it didn't help. Sometimes MATLAB will just stop working, while other times it gives me the "Illegal Instruction" error, with what seems to be different details each time. The two most recent crash dumps are attached.

I'll keep looking for other potential solutions in the meantime.

I've done some quick research and it turns out that my processor belongs to the AMD Puma family, whereas the workaround provided in the bug report is for Jaguar processors. I wonder if that's part of the problem.