topic Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit in Installation & update

Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:18:27 GMT

The ARCHICAD 20 Electronic Delivery Instructions lists only 64 bit Windows 10 & 8.1. So....will ArchiCAD 20 work with Windows 7 pro 64bit? I am leery of upgrading to windows 10 BUT if I have to it would be nice to do it while it is free. Any thoughts or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks cary

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 03:32:07 GMT

Don't know about the Win 7 question - but I've had no issues with Win 10 64, which actually feels snappier than Win 7 at least in my virtual machine. I'd go ahead and move to 10 ... but go through the privacy settings after the upgrade as the Microsoft defaults share a lot of stuff, if you care. The installation wizard offers you a limited set of the privacy options - making you think you've done them all - but the wizard only presents about half of them.

This technote claims 20 is "compatible but not tested" with Win 7:
http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/technotes/operating-systems/windows-7/

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Jeff Kogut — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 19:06:51 GMT

I'm running AC20 on Win7 Pro 64 bit and everything seems just fine.

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 19:37:01 GMT

Jeff wrote:
I'm running AC20 on Win7 Pro 64 bit and everything seems just fine.

Thanks for posting, Jeff. That info will help a lot of folks.

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 15:13:04 GMT

I have not seen any problems with ARCHICAD 20 under Windows 7 either.

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 02:51:16 GMT

thanks Jeff and Laszlo

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 03:06:09 GMT

Hi,

One of my main machines died this morning so I would like to use the laptop as work comp temporarily. It's specs are
Window 7 Home Premium.
Asus Notebook K53sc series.
Intel core I7-2630QM CPU@2.00Ghz
ram 8.00 Gig
64 bit OS
Nvidia GeForceGT 520MX

Would it cope with AC20?

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Barry Kelly — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:08:25 GMT

I can't see why not.
But the only way you will know for sure is to give it a go.

Barry.

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:40:14 GMT

Grooovy - Cheers

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:26:57 GMT

I have a very similar laptop (ASUS G73SW), except it has SSD system drive (much faster when opening files), 16 GB of RAM (only needed with very large project files) and GeForce 460M (weaker than yours).
This machine is 5 years old but I still feel it is satisfactory for my purposes.
The truth is the pace of CPU speed development has slowed down quite a bit in the last decade. A high end machine can be useful for 5-6 years instead of the 3-4 years of a decade ago.
In summary, this laptop should be fine in my opinion and experience.

Re: Archicad 20 and Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 02:41:29 GMT

Thanks Mr Lasz, very reassuring. I am really in crisis mode here as I had offered a drafting position to a young man on the basis that I had two stations. If I can't get this laptop to work I am back to one....
Look like I can keep moving forward.