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VBE - system requirements

Arcadia — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:04:33 GMT

Anyone know if VBE will run on Vista Home Basic or Premium or std Windows XP? I'm having a lot of clients saying they can't run the file and trying to work out why. The documentation says that xp proffessional, or Vista Ultimate, Business, Enterprise needed but I can't see why the other vista versions wouldn't work.

This is most frustrating as us designers or architects probably all have the latest gear but the run of the mill clients often don't.

Re: VBE - system requirements

ci-JoshOs — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:41:44 GMT

most likely it's the graphics card. vbe will be wanting something a lot better than the nasty onboard cards in most budget pcs.

Re: VBE - system requirements

Arcadia — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:06:29 GMT

Yes more than likely but I would still like to know if anyone has succesfully run VBE exe files on other windows versions other than the ones listed in the VBE system requirements info. This would eleminate one thing from the equation.

Re: VBE - system requirements

ci-JoshOs — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:07:53 GMT

can't help there I'm afraid. i have tried it on vista business 32 and 64 bit, and XP Pro 32, but that's it.

Re: VBE - system requirements

David Shorter — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:46:20 GMT

Slightly off topic but has anyone had experience with VBE on XP or Vista ultimate running under Parallels or Boot Camp?
The problem I have seen is that under boot camp everything works OK but under parallels, turning on the global illumination causes the building to disappear leaving only the sky. The option to initialize Global Illumination gives a failed message.
Comments anyone

Re: VBE - system requirements

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:55:09 GMT

David wrote:
Slightly off topic but has anyone had experience with VBE on XP or Vista ultimate running under Parallels or Boot Camp?
The problem I have seen is that under boot camp everything works OK but under parallels, turning on the global illumination causes the building to disappear leaving only the sky. The option to initialize Global Illumination gives a failed message.
Comments anyone

Yes - read the VBE wiki articles. The symptoms you found are described there. Problems with Fusion also. I would think that Boot Camp would be fine though?

Cheers,
Karl

Re: VBE - system requirements

ci-JoshOs — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:24:29 GMT

That'll be because the virtual graphics card that a Virtual Machine will give you is not as good as a real bit of hardware. What the host machine needs to do is pass through the full resources of the system to any VMs, which none of the current VM solutions can do. VMWare ESX is getting closer, but it's still a few years off.

Re: VBE - system requirements

Gorazd — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:53:12 GMT

I am viewing VBE files on Vista Home Premium and XP Pro without any problems. XP Pro is a notebook with onboard graphics with only 64 Mb ram. It is not perfect, but it runs.

Re: VBE - system requirements

Arcadia — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:06:16 GMT

Thanks Gorazd, that the sort of info I was after.

Re: VBE - system requirements

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:47:07 GMT

I am having the same problems here. I sent a file to two clients the other day both running Vista 64 and both having decent graphic cards and they cannot run it. They tried it on a XP machine and it ran fine.

Any ideas why this would happen please?

Cheers

Neil

Re: VBE - system requirements

KeesW — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:47:18 GMT

Neil

Vista 64 won't run Archicad VR scenes because (I've been told) Apple hasn't written a driver for VR to work with Microsoft 64 bit computers. Works fine with MS 32 bit. Maybe VBE suffers from the same cause in MS 64 bit OS's.

There must be some users out there who can try it.

Re: VBE - system requirements

RandyC — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:37:15 GMT

works fine on xp pro 64 bit

Re: VBE - system requirements

ci-JoshOs — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:38:36 GMT

Works fine on Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 64 bit.
It must be the graphics cards. What are they?

Re: VBE - system requirements

KeesW — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:31:57 GMT

I am glad to hear that. Leaves only the Archicad VR object and VR Scenes that don't work with MS 64 bit OS's.