Re: ProE on Windows XP 64 Professional

On Feb 1, 3:34=A0pm, "Bertil Rogmark" <ber...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Is it worthwile to go this way?
>
> Bertil

I worked at a place that used 64 bit machines.  They had many large
models, but I didn't work in them so I can't speak to how well a 64
bit mahcine addresses large model issues.

I can say that the speed of the 64 bit machine was not any faster than
a 32 bit machine with models that worked on a 32 bit machine.

I also was very frustrated that many programs did not run on a 64 bit
machine that run on a 32 bit machine and finding drivers for hardware
was difficult, if not impossible. I ran into this with a scanner that
was a few years old.

i also had problems with WF3 and the analysis feature.  i could not
select features to measure the distance between them.  The 64 bit
version of wildfire 3 and the 32 bit versions that had the same build
number (I'm guessing) are different code.  There were bugs in the 64
bit version that were not there in the 32 bit viersion.

To get around some of the compatibility issues by loading  vmware on
the 64bit machine and built a 32bit guest machine on it.  I was able
to run the scanner with the 32 bit drivers on the virtual machine
along with all my 32 bit versions of software that did not run on the
64bit machine.

If you need more memory for larger models, then I guess you have very
few choices but to go to a 64 bit machine and OS.  Just might want to
keep a 32bit machine on your desk, or at least load a virtual machine
on the 64 bit machine if you have software and hardware that will not
run on a 64 bit machine.

There's my 2 cents.