R. Wingley Jones Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 VW9 does not install properly on my Pentium with Cyrix 133Mhz processor. Error "requires 80486 or higher processor? VW8.5 had no problem Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted April 23, 2001 Share Posted April 23, 2001 Does this happen during the install or after when you try to run VectorWorks? ------------------ Mark Fiorucci Production Developer Nemetschek North America Quote Link to comment
R. Wingley Jones Posted May 4, 2001 Author Share Posted May 4, 2001 quote: Originally posted by markf: Does this happen during the install or after when you try to run VectorWorks? This happens when I try to run VW9 [This message has been edited by R. Wingley Jones (edited 05-04-2001).] Quote Link to comment
R. Wingley Jones Posted May 4, 2001 Author Share Posted May 4, 2001 quote: Originally posted by R. Wingley Jones: I run setup. Everything goes well until I try to run VW9. "This program requires an 80486 or newer processor" Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Andrew Bell@NV Posted May 4, 2001 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 4, 2001 Hmm. That doesn't seem to be one of our strings, so it may be put in by the Microsoft compiler. Our product specs specify "A Pentium or greater." The Cyrix 133 isn't a Pentium (Pentiums are specific Intel chips), but the Cyrix is meant to Pentium compatible, I believe, just as Athlons are now. So it seems the intro code the compiler puts into the project isn't recognizing the Cyrix as a Pentium. I don't know what we can do about that -- it would be hard for us even to test a change if we did make one -- but I'll buglist it. In the meantime, you might want to consider looking at (say) the prices on refurbished Dells... (No NNA endorsement of Dell products should be inferred from this, I was just looking at their pages out of my own interest.) ------------------ Andrew Bell andrewb@nemetschek.net I am not an official spokesperson for NNA Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted May 5, 2001 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 5, 2001 If the Cyrix 133 isn't being seen as a Pentium try downloading and installing this utility. http://www.powerleap.com/CCP.htm It will trick the system into thinking it has a real Pentium processor. Quote Link to comment
R. Wingley Jones Posted May 7, 2001 Author Share Posted May 7, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Andrew Bell@NNA: Hmm. That doesn't seem to be one of our strings, so it may be put in by the Microsoft compiler. Our product specs specify "A Pentium or greater." The Cyrix 133 isn't a Pentium (Pentiums are specific Intel chips), but the Cyrix is meant to Pentium compatible, I believe, just as Athlons are now. So it seems the intro code the compiler puts into the project isn't recognizing the Cyrix as a Pentium. I don't know what we can do about that -- it would be hard for us even to test a change if we did make one -- but I'll buglist it. In the meantime, you might want to consider looking at (say) the prices on refurbished Dells... (No NNA endorsement of Dell products should be inferred from this, I was just looking at their pages out of my own interest.) Thanks for the tip. For your information, just as I am a devoted VW man, I am also a devoted Cyrix man. I have since upgraded to a Cyrix III - 700Mhz processor and has had no problems in the installation. The price of cyrix CPU's is about 1/4 the cost of either INTEL or AMD. Quote Link to comment
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