WinXP Home installation

[alexliz24]

I've installed AC10 on a WinXP Home machine (that is, before noticing the officially supported OSs). It worked initially, until just a couple of days ago it opened up a project and all pens were black. Went to Pen Sets, none was selected. When I selected one of them, things got back to normal.

Similar things have misbehaved since then.

Bottom line: has anybody run it on WinXP Home successfully? Or must I definitely upgrade to Pro/x64?

Many thanks, you guys.

[Ben Odonnell]

The major difference between XP Pro and Home edition is that Pro has advanced networking capabilities. Other than that they are basically the sam OS. It sounds more like a file or specific Archicad related problem.

Cheers.
Ben

[alexliz24]

Thanks, Ben, but...

...if _that_ is the case, why should GS state that it runs on XP Pro/x64 only?
Are these extended networking capabilities so critical to ArchiCAD's performance?

[Anonymous]

I use XP Pro myself, but I've heard of people using the home version without problems. Djordje?

[Ben Odonnell]

Hi Alex,
Good question.I really don't think that the differences are so critical. Both Operating systems are x32 . In fact XP Home is a major step forward from windows 2000 PRO, yea ok I know that GS has dropt that OS as well. Any way the following link will explain the differences between XP Pro and HE. http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

I still don't think that it's an OS related problem though.

HTH.
Cheers.
Ben

[Djordje]

Matthew wrote:
I use XP Pro myself, but I've heard of people using the home version without problems. Djordje?

No problems here at all. Home is as good as Pro.

[Anonymous]

I couldnt get Archicad 10 installed on my Xp Home machine at all and changed to XP Pro and it installed fine after that.

But if you actually managed to get it installed it must have been something that happened since that messed up the installation. Perhaps Starforce drivers or something similar??