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ACA2008 & VISTA

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Draftdoug5610
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ACA2008 & VISTA

I am getting ready to buy a new computer, so my question is will the next 2008 version work better with Vista than XPM. Most of the input that I get right now with 2008 says to get the new computer with XP even though it can not see more than 3 Gigs of ram and I want to get 4. When I bought my last computer it was similar. Everyone was saying get it with Windows 2000 not XP. Then when sp1 came out I bought XP and reinstalled everything from scratch. i do not want to do that this time if I can help it.
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Anonymous
in reply to: Draftdoug5610

Runs absolutely fine in Vista here, along with other 2008 versions of
AutoCAD.

Only folks afraid of Vista are those that don't have it or are afraid to
turn off the cutesy animations and UAC in it for fear of 'breaking' it.

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Dean
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Anonymous
in reply to: Draftdoug5610

"Dean Saadallah" wrote
> Only folks afraid of Vista are those that don't have it or are afraid to
> turn off the cutesy animations and UAC in it for fear of 'breaking' it.

I'm running a side by side comparison of XP and Vista on identical Dell
P390s. Even decutesified, Vista is running ACA and MEP noticably slower.
YMMV
Message 4 of 10

What about Vista 64, anyone using it?
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Anonymous
in reply to: Draftdoug5610

I like that word LOL

VISTA with a Gig more RAM seems to compensate for performance over XP here.

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Dean
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Message 6 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Draftdoug5610

ACA2008 is not designed to 64bit OS, maybe ACA2009?

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Dean Saadallah
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Message 7 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Draftdoug5610

http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisewindows/archives/2008/01/save_xp_not.html
Message 8 of 10

It would be great if ACA 2009 has a 64 bit version! Guess I have have to wiat a few months until the release to find out and then I can order my computer.
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Anonymous
in reply to: Draftdoug5610

I'm using AutoCAD MEP 2008 on Vista Ultimate 64 with no problems. I use it
in AutoCAD Architecture profile most of the time.
wrote in message news:5834144@discussion.autodesk.com...
What about Vista 64, anyone using it?
Message 10 of 10
lahey
in reply to: Draftdoug5610

When we bought new machines I was concerned about running future versions on XP. Lets face it, we will be pushed to upgrade at some point. I've had no problems running 2008 on Vista Ultimate. I've got 4GB RAM and an Intel T7500 Core 2 Duo. It's faster than my old XP machine but the hardware is completely different. I design on the machine and don't do much rendering so I can't really comment on the benchmark performance.
I will point out that a 32 bit OS can't see all 4 GB of RAM. Mine reads 3.5 MB which is pretty good compared to some others. You will need 64 bit to get all 4 GB or more.
I will also say that some of my other software is not compatible with Vista at all. It took a couple of months to get my palm pilot working most of the way. The software was just released in the last month or so.

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