My existing computer is a 4-5 year old Pentium-4 3ghz with 1GB RAM running Windows XP. It's been terribly slow lately and was way past due for some serious OS spring cleaning. I added 3Gb of RAM, backed-up everything, installed a new drive and loaded Windows7 64bit. I kept the existing drive with all OS files intact so that if things go sideways I can put the XP drive back in and get back to work. I'm in the process of reloading all of my applications and so far so good. Both of my printers (HP Laserjet CM2320nf, & HP Designjet 800) have Win7 64bit drivers. AutoCAD LDD2000 is next.....Say a prayer and press install. I'll let ya'll know how it goes.;-)
I have LDD2002 on a Windows 7 Pro machine. It does alright. I occasional get an error message stating that the point database is locked when I start a new drawing, but closing and reopening the drawing clears that.
> My existing computer is a 4-5 year old Pentium-4 3ghz with 1GB RAM running Windows XP. It's been terribly slow lately and was way past due for some serious OS spring cleaning. I added 3Gb of RAM, backed-up everything, installed a new drive and loaded Windows7 64bit. I kept the existing drive with all OS files intact so that if things go sideways I can put the XP drive back in and get back to work. I'm in the process of reloading all of my applications and so far so good. Both of my printers (HP Laserjet CM2320nf, & HP Designjet 800) have Win7 64bit drivers. AutoCAD LDD2000 is next.....Say a prayer and press install. I'll let ya'll know how it goes.;-)
You should be fine - I run the same program on my Win 7 Laptop.
Even with the increase in RAM, you may want to consider a new CPU at some point. Even a core i5, will boost your performance by a hefty bit.
Of course, then you have to consider motherboard architectures and increased heat output, but these are not insurmountable obstacles.
Holding my breath for ya. I know this plunge can be a bit scary.
Glad to see you are taking the pro active prepared approach.
I made the plunge last May (I was pushed by my 7 year old HP that just quit running & died (RIP)).
I got lots of excellent help through the process right here at beer leg dot com.
I've actually got a new I-7 machine ordered, but wanted this one updated as a spare and as a dry run for the install on the new machine. So far the "Today" screen caused a blow-up. Took me a few minutes to find the command line option to kill it. Now I'm fighting with the Express tools. Just starting to troubleshoot, but looks like the installer is 16bit and incompatible with Win7-64.
I believe Google just found me a work-around. Appears they can be manually copied and installed from a previous installation.
Yeah the inability to execute 16 bit code is the main problem people have with 64 bit versions of Windows. There are ways around this, including using a virtual machine and of course using newer versions of software.
my nerd friend / cad guy got express tools to install on my computer. I wrestled with that for a while, couldn't get it on my own. Next time I see him I'll ask him how he did it. It was something about a program called Dloader.exe.
Turns out that Express tools were the least of my problems. AutoCAD 2000 will run in Windows 7 64bit (W7-64) but the piggy-back files for LDD will not. I searched the far corners of the internet and tried every trick I know for making programs run in a compatibility mode with zero results. I finally gave up and have installed W7-32 and it's looking much better. I will leave this machine loaded with AutoCAD 2000 and LDD and transition to my new machine as I finish projects and learn Carlson. Fortunately, it looks like Carlson will play nice with both W7-64 and W7-32.
Carlson plays nice period.
Excellent support.
Short learning curve.
I have not looked back (switched under similar situation last year)
With 10+ years working in LDD2i I'm struggling with the transition. I've got the 2012 embedded version loaded and I'm having trouble getting the toolbars setup to my liking. Guess I didn't learn LDD in two days either.;-)
