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Thread ID: 102420 2009-08-18 21:44:00 Running a 32-bit app in 64-bit Win7 Chilling_Silence (9) Press F1
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802283 2009-08-18 21:44:00 Hi all,

So I'm helping a friend who was previously dual-booting 32-bit XP with 64-bit Vista.
Most of his stuff was done in 32-bit XP, but he's in to Flight Sim and isn't getting the most outta his hardware, so we thought we'd trial him out for a month on Win7.

So far so good, except he's got one application that doesn't want to run. It's called QuickVerse, and when he fires it up, it complains that it wasn't designed to run in 64-bit Windows, only 32-bit... I'm unsure if it's the app thats complaining here or Windows, but if anybody has a way we can "fool" it into thinking its running in 32-bit Windows, that'd be super :D

We've tried compatibility mode with settings to XP, 2K, 98, whatever ... none of that works :-/

Any ideas appreciated

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
802284 2009-08-18 22:21:00 What version is it? There doesn't appear to be anything specific to Win 7 in their knowledge base (www.quickversekb.com).

Compatibility mode should take care of most issues, but apparently QV is too smart for it's own good :D
autechre (266)
802285 2009-08-18 22:57:00 When you start the program, right click on it and select, "run as administrator". This works in a lot of cases. Even if you are logged on as administrator some programs do not recognise this and have to be told again.
Stick with 64 bit. Overall it's much faster than 32 and performs much better.
And I'm using 12 gigs of ram instead of 3.
Jack
JJJJJ (528)
802286 2009-08-18 23:02:00 Yeah I've tried Run As Administrator, still the same issue :-/

I'll ask what version he's running, perhaps it's time to buy the latest ...?
Chilling_Silence (9)
802287 2009-08-18 23:33:00 16bit installer!!!? Will never install on 64bit platform, how old is the software.....try xp mode! SolMiester (139)
802288 2009-08-18 23:47:00 Aaaah! So its a 16-bit application perhaps?

XP Mode here I come... :D

Thanks
Chilling_Silence (9)
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