topic !Restored: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit in Modeling

!Restored: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:31:36 GMT

Hello everyone!

I hope you guys can help me on this one.

We have a Gateway tower with a dual core 64 processor running
Vista 64 Ultimate. Now when I take a look at the processes I see
Archicad.exe *32. This leads me to believe that the software is
running in 32 bit mode and not 64. Is there a way to have the software
run in 64 bit mode?

Thanks a lot!

Josh

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:59:11 GMT

ArchiCAD is still a 32 bit app. Since XP32 & Vista32 limit programs to 2GB RAM, going to 64 bit should allow ArchiCAD to access the full 4GB that is the maximum for a 32 bit program.

Check out the WIKI page:

archicadwiki.com/64-bit

That should answer all your questions.

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:17:13 GMT

Matt thanks a lot!

Do you know if Archicad 12 will have a 64bit version and if so when is it coming out.

Need more speed...

Josh

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

KeesW — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:19:15 GMT

Our specifications are similar to yours and our AC's run very fast. I don't know if AC12 will acknowledge 64 bit processors but understand that it will use multiple cores when they are available. We are certainly looking forward to getting more benefits from these high end components.

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:04:02 GMT

KeesW wrote:
Our specifications are similar to yours and our AC's run very fast. I don't know if AC12 will acknowledge 64 bit processors but understand that it will use multiple cores when they are available. We are certainly looking forward to getting more benefits from these high end components.

If this little tidbit of information about multiple cores is true it will be a very good thing!

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:41:58 GMT

before I go through the effort of dual booting a windows 64 can anyone actually verify that archicad can and will use all of the 4 gigs of ram available to it in 64 bit mode. I do a lot of rendering that would certainly take advantage of a near doubling of ram, but have only ever heard that it should use it (in theory), but haven't heard anyone say that they have seen it in action. thanks in advance.
carl b

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:58:51 GMT

I have AC11 running on a Vista 64-bit machine and it is using more than 2 GB of RAM, I can't say it is using all 4 but definately more than 2.

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

ci-JoshOs — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:13:15 GMT

I can confirm that AC12 does use up to 4 gigs. On a really huge model it was chewing just over 3 while generating an elevation. it probably would take more, but vista wasn't letting so of it.

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:34:41 GMT

I am running ac 12 on vista64 and had some problems with the 3d window when aero is turned on. Has anyone else experienced this?

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

ci-JoshOs — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:48:35 GMT

I've had no problems at all on my rig. What's your graphics hardware?

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:21:41 GMT

my GPU is an Nvidea Quadro 3600m.

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

ci-JoshOs — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:54:48 GMT

Your card uses the same chip as the 3700, which passed Vista testing in AC12 (http://www.archicadwiki.com/Video%20Cards%20for%20ArchiCAD%2012).
Are you using the recommended driver version? If not, get it from here:
32-Bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_162.65.html
64-Bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_162.65.html

Re: Archicad 11 for Vista 64 bit

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:46:35 GMT

Thanks for the link but I can't find any drivers for the FX3600 card. I think the drivers for this card are released by the laptop manf. which is HP in this case. Don't ask me why but thats what I read.