topic Re: Archicad 6.5 on win 7 (square meters display problem) in Modeling

Archicad 6.5 on win 7 (square meters display problem)

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:25:14 GMT

I have Archicad 6.5 and i had it on my XP everything was great untill my hard drive died. I bought new PC because the old one was so old i was not able to use the other drives because my motherboard was 2002 and not support sata connection and 40gb+ drives...

So i bought new computer with windows 7 and when i install archicad 6.5 on the new drive everything is ok. but one thing is messed up. Instead of 172m² program show m 172 ²

Check this out.

Re: Archicad 6.5 on win 7 (square meters display problem)

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:45:17 GMT

ARCHICAD 6.5 was released in 2000, I think. Windows 7 was released in 2009. ARCHICAD 6.5 (or any other software) cannot be expected to be compatible with an operating system that is released 9 years later.
So it is very probable that you will encounter similar issues. ARCHICAD 6.5 is simply not meant to be run on Windows 7 or later.
You should probably upgrade to a later version of ARCHICAD. The current version is ARCHICAD 19. You will be shocked to see how much the program improved since 6.5.

Re: Archicad 6.5 on win 7 (square meters display problem)

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:19:24 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
ARCHICAD 6.5 was released in 2000, I think. Windows 7 was released in 2009. ARCHICAD 6.5 (or any other software) cannot be expected to be compatible with an operating system that is released 9 years later.
So it is very probable that you will encounter similar issues. ARCHICAD 6.5 is simply not meant to be run on Windows 7 or later.
You should probably upgrade to a later version of ARCHICAD. The current version is ARCHICAD 19. You will be shocked to see how much the program improved since 6.5.

Yes but the funny thing is i have 6.0 because i updated to 6.5 and 6.0 works fine... And 6.0 is older than 6.5 "_"

Re: Archicad 6.5 on win 7 (square meters display problem)

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:43:47 GMT

Well, it is funny. But it only shows how unpredictable it is whether an application will be able to run fine on an operating system released much later or not.

Re: Archicad 6.5 on win 7 (square meters display problem)

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 15:45:44 GMT

Have you tried compatibility mode? Right-click the AC 6.5 EXE and choose Properties. Then the Compatibility tab and finally check the box for "Run this program in compatibility mode for" and select Windows XP SP 3. Or Windows 2000 or NT 4.0.