Inventor 11 and Windows 8.1

[dannyc2]

I loaded inventor 11 on my Windows 8.1 machine.

It started and contacted mama (registered itself with AutoDESK).  It then ran twice more but I could not open any files (SCHEMA Failure).

Now it doesn't open at all.

Any Suggestions?

[Martin_Goodland]

You will need to go back to using a WinXP machine or upgrade to a newer version of Inventor (I believe 2014 & 2015 are supported on Win 8.1).

Regards

Martin

[dannyc2]

Yea, like that is going to happen. That's how many thousands of dollars??

Even though I agree with you - just too much money for me.

Still - it DID run and talk to mama - then it stopped running.

Think Autodesk had a hand in that?

[DarrenP]

no windows 8.1 came years after inventor 11 did
even 2014 has problems with windows 8.1

[Martin_Goodland]

If you have to use Inventor 11 then you will need to get hold of a computer that runs XP (there seem to be lots on e-bay). You could always just use it for Inventor and use the newer machine for everything else.

As DarrenP said even Inventor 2014 which is 7 years newer than Inventor 11 does not work properly on Win8.1

Regards

Martin 

[mrattray]

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@dannyc2 wrote:
Yea, like that is going to happen. That's how many thousands of dollars??

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Versus how much money you have already spent (time+hardware) plus how much you will spend (time) trying to force Inventor "11" (I assume you mean 2011) to run on Windows 8.1?

[Martin_Goodland]

No he really does mean Inventor 11. There are some files posted in a different thread and they are Inventor 11 files not 2011.

Regards

Martin

[mrattray]

@Martin_Goodland Wow.

@dannyc2 You should be aware that you are actually in violation of your EULA. You're only allowed to be behind a few releases. There's a few threads discussing this here.

[dannyc2]

Thank you all for the replies - yes it is a problem, was hoping someone found a fix. Apparently it is Windows 8 that's the problem - and not just for Autodesk. But that is life, I guess.

Have considered getting an XP machine to just run it.
Was hoping that running in XP emulation mode would work.