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As many of you know, Windows Vista does not like to play nice with many important applications. Tonight i went to install Autodesk Inventor 11 which i need desperately for college. And of course, in true windows fashion, it was not compatible. After about 7 failed attempts i finally stumbled upon a thread on the Autodesk forums that helped. I don't know how many people here use the program, but if you do in the future and need to install it in vista try this:
1) Skip using Media Browser. Go directly to the Inventor Setup.exe and set compatibility to XP SP2. 2) Install as Administrator 3) Set Inventor.exe to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode 4) Right click, run as Administrator.
Hopefully Autodesk makes their software compatible, but I just wanted to post this to save people the aggravation.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
Posts: 2445
I don't see why people 'upgrade' to vista, I have used it a little and besides a bit more (resource hogging) eye candy it isn't really all that much better then xp, or even fedora/ubuntu/etc. I mean, the only reason that most people I know use windows in the first place is that they can drop their cd in, and it will just work, and from what I have seen vista seemed to have dropped that feature. I mean, for the amount of effort that you put into figuring out how to install autodesk, a similar linux app could have been compiled from source :p
In any case, my universal os compatability thingamob is vmware. I have images for ubuntu, 98, 2k, xp, and vista all on my home network, and if I need to run any app on any of my computers I just resume the necessary os and go from there. And it actually runs resonably fast, I can even run solidworks on my 1.3ghz laptop and it is usable fast!
I always ends up faster than coaxing wine or screweing with installers... [/rant]
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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I do programming in my spare time to earn a bit of extra dough. 90% of the work I get is bodging together test and measurement applications in Labview. I always tell customers that I don't support Vista, and if any of my programs don't work on Vista, tough. However, the guy I'm working for just now brought a new computer over, and it had... Vista!
Everything installed and worked just fine, though. It does just seem to be XP with a new user interface that uses an accelerated graphics card to give you eye candy. I have read tech articles about it that say that the underlying OS has been improved, and the last of the old 16-bit cruft tossed out. So if you could turn the eye candy off (which you probably can) it might be better than XP.
Regardless, I hope to have moved all my computing operations (hopefully even my paid work) over to Linux by the time Microsoft stop support for XP. I already use Ubuntu for most things.
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Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
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Yay, from the article Bjoern linked, it sounds like MS fixed a lot of annoying quirks, improved real-time performance, and stole some more good ideas from Unix.
The machine I tried Vista on was an Athlon 64 dual core and it seemed plenty fast compared to XP on my own machine, a 3GHz P4. I suppose I could live with Vista fine, if I could turn off the asstastic 3D compositing effects and install Cygwin.
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HAHAH...oh man....Cygwin. We're playing with that right now in my Lego class. Some of us are having problems with the Hitachi cross compilier, but once we get that loaded, we'll compare C to NQC in our controls compensators.
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Autodesk Inventor 11 and windows Vista
