Why not runt at XP Home / Vista home? And why Quicktime?

[Anonymous]

Hi!

What is it in ArchiCad that makes system requirements that not support home editions of XP / Vista?


And second, are Quicktime really a needed thing to have? It's a kind of nightmare software, maybe it not that hard to have if you only use your computer for ArchiCad and other cad related things. But I have my computer for both CAD and Music-production and QT gives me alot of trouble.
Why not have a choice to select if you want too install it or not, and if not, greymarked the function in AC that need QT.

[Piotr Dobrowolski]

TurboGlider wrote:

Piotr wrote:
Regarding Vista - forget this c.r.a.p.

It's hard too find laptop computers today that don't have Vista preinstalled. And ofcause you don't get any drivers on cd that support the hardware so installing Win XP are asking for trouble.

Not that fast... look at for example Dell - they first sold Vista only than they returned to XP - and You can select which OS to be installed.

Again when buying Vista make sure You buy at least Bussiness edition - so that You will be able to downagrade to XP.

Most Laptop vendors have the drivers on their web pages....so only thing lost is the "recovery CD/DVD" which can be home made using some partition imager program (eg. Norton Ghost)

Best Regards,
Piotr

[Anonymous]

Piotr wrote:
Most Laptop vendors have the drivers on their web pages....

Maybe that's true even here in sweden if you don't buy the smallest one. It's worth a check.

[Anonymous]

TurboGlider wrote:

Piotr wrote:
Regarding Vista - forget this c.r.a.p.

It's hard too find laptop computers today that don't have Vista preinstalled.

No it's not. They're called MacBook Pros and can run multiple operating systems.

[Anonymous]

Tom wrote:
No it's not. They're called MacBook Pros and can run multiple operating systems.

But ok, it seams that Pro versions of XP / Vista isn't a req. only a recommendation?

But the thing about QT, why not an option where you can choose to install it or not? Even if it's not gives you any problem, I don't like to install more things on my computer that I'm really needed. More things = slower computer and more things that could go wrong.
What I know the only thing in ArchiCad that req. QT-processing is sun-study, fly-through and VR views? But does it really need QT-player for creating this? I'm not that familiar with how QT works.
So, my question are, why do we need QT?

[Anonymous]

The version 7.2 is not compatible with AC 10.
You must install the older version 7.1.6.
Otherwise you must have trouble with animation-set.

[Chadwick]

Better yet - install the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and run Archicad in VMWare.

[Anonymous]

Chadwick wrote:
Better yet - install the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and run Archicad in VMWare.

Can you explain more?
You mean, AC runs with Quick Time 7.2?

[henrypootel]

the reason the system requirements state XP Professional is that that is the version of Windows that ArchiCAD is coded and testesd on. A lot of people are using ArchiCAD fine on XP Home, but GS can't recommend it because they don't test it themselves.
As for Quicktime, it is required by ArchiCAD to function properly, so I think it is entirely reasonable to install it as part of the AC install procedure. So long as you set preferences right it should do exactly what you want it to. What other application is it stealing associations from anyway?