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| 579296 | 2007-08-11 21:16:00 | Well, he does everything, but dislikes houses. I think one of his most recent efforts was an whopping great Caterpillar Engine driven Power Supply for a Drilling Rig. BIG stuff eh:thumbs: How much RAM does he use? My brother-in-law uses this software www.ugs.com |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 579297 | 2007-08-11 22:30:00 | You can only check with AutoCad to see if they are going to produce a driver that will allow your version to run on Vista. Sorry but I had to correct this one. A driver is for getting a piece of hardware running within an OS it is the program that has to be upgraded to run under Vista. I would run it under a virtual machine as it is easier than dual booting |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 579298 | 2007-08-11 22:53:00 | BIG stuff eh:thumbs: How much RAM does he use? My brother-in-law uses this software www.ugs.com I don’t know, but I’ll ask next time we’re in contact. Knowing him I’ll bet it’ll be full noise. :D I think the whole idea of the new machine was to be able to add more RAM plus of course a nice new 19” screen. ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 579299 | 2007-08-11 22:53:00 | Sorry but I had to correct this one. A driver is for getting a piece of hardware running within an OS it is the program that has to be upgraded to run under Vista. I would run it under a virtual machine as it is easier than dual booting That sounds a good idea Mike. Can anybody elaborate on how to go about installing/using Virtual Machine? :thumbs: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 579300 | 2007-08-11 23:01:00 | I don’t know, but I’ll ask next time we’re in contact. Knowing him I’ll bet it’ll be full noise. :D I think the whole idea of the new machine was to be able to add more RAM plus of course a nice new 19” screen. ;) 19" screen is a bit small for large scale engineering. My old work screen for design was a 20", the biggest I am aware of is around 30" If your friend is moving to Vista 64 Bit he should be able to have up to 16GB of RAM (depending on his work's budget) |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 579301 | 2007-08-12 10:20:00 | AutoCAD 2006 will work in Vista. I can't remember how but I think one of the method was to run the program under adminstrator rights. I will find out tomorrow. I have AutoCAD 2006 running under Vista at work. I found it to be really slow and need lot of RAM preferably more than 1GB. AutoCAD 2006 run best under Windows XP. | stingray (12122) | ||
| 579302 | 2007-08-12 10:28:00 | Most AutoCAD design style programs require as much RAM as you can throw at them hence the benefits of 64bit OSes that can utilise up to 16GB of RAM. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 579303 | 2007-08-12 12:18:00 | That sounds a good idea Mike. Can anybody elaborate on how to go about installing/using Virtual Machine? :thumbs: I've had Win2k running within Qemu under linux. Haven't got Win95 running yet. You could try the Windows version of Qemu (fabrice.bellard.free.fr) |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 579304 | 2007-08-12 21:09:00 | Yes, you have to click it to run under Adminstrator. Failing this change to Win XP. Cheaper option this way. AutoCAD 2006 will not work in 64 bits O/S The AutoCAD 2008 will work in either 32 or 64 bits O/S. |
stingray (12122) | ||
| 579305 | 2007-08-12 22:29:00 | It seems, more specifically, the programme wouldn’t Install on Vista . Even though all his disks are legit the Install Programme won’t run under Vista, so it doesn’t even get to the disk . I guess you can’t run it if you cant install it . :blush: It would also seem that AutoCads arrogance and greed has invited the Pirates along and Pirated Copy’s of 2008 are going for $100 . It would also seem that the $7k price tag is a Special for Australia & New Zealand . Elsewhere in the world, genuine copy’s of 2008 can be purchased for less than a tenth the price . :eek: |
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