mgajewski Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Hi, I am about to install Windows 7 Professional and I have both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions available. I remember reading a comment online that suggested that IronCAD ran better on Windows 7 32-bit version than on the 64-bit one. Is that true? Is the 32-bit or 64-bit version better for IronCAD? Also - how about XP 64? Will XP even be supported by IronCAD 12? Thanks. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Gower Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Hi, I am about to install Windows 7 Professional and I have both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions available. I remember reading a comment online that suggested that IronCAD ran better on Windows 7 32-bit version than on the 64-bit one. Is that true? Is the 32-bit or 64-bit version better for IronCAD? Also - how about XP 64? Will XP even be supported by IronCAD 12? Thanks. Mark 32228[/snapback] Mark, Obviously you need a computer that will run a 64-bit OS if you want to install one and I think any 32-bit version of Windows will only support up to 4GB of RAM at the most. I used Win XP Pro 32-bit until I ran into poor performance and needed more memory for larger assemblies. Now there's a lot of info out there comparing performance of the different versions but I don't think you need to look very far. I would just install Win7 Pro 64-bit since that is about the latest and greatest. Here's a couple links that might help. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows...asked-questions http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa...8(v=vs.85).aspx http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/i...owtopic=6123&hl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKevin Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 That's good advice, Windows 7 64bit will give you better memory management and capacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgajewski Posted August 4, 2011 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 That's good advice, Windows 7 64bit will give you better memory management and capacity. 32239[/snapback] Thanks, guys - that's very clear and helpful. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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