Windows Vista

[Anonymous]

Does AC10 run on windows vista or is some update required?

[stefan]

TomWaltz wrote:
No need. You can run all your Windows apps in Parallels or Boot Camp.

What about hardware acceleration? Is that fully supported in these environments?

[TomWaltz]

stefan wrote:

TomWaltz wrote:
No need. You can run all your Windows apps in Parallels or Boot Camp.

What about hardware acceleration? Is that fully supported in these environments?

I'm going to sound dumb here: I don't know what hardware acceleration is.

[Anonymous]

GPU. Graphic Processor Unit. Graphic Card takes care about what you see in 3D window. Main processor do not make calculations in that area. That means much faster 3D and more power for other tasks.

[TomWaltz]

Miki wrote:
GPU. Graphic Processor Unit. Graphic Card takes care about what you see in 3D window. Main processor do not make calculations in that area. That means much faster 3D and more power for other tasks.

Oh!! Duh.... for some reason I was thinking like accelerating normal processes, not video.

I cannot say. I haven't tried it. I can say that WinXP seems to run very well on it, even with Autocad and Revit.

[Anonymous]

stefan wrote:

TomWaltz wrote:
No need. You can run all your Windows apps in Parallels or Boot Camp.

What about hardware acceleration? Is that fully supported in these environments?

I can't quote any specs or benchmarks but XP runs faster on my MacBook Pro (in Boot Camp) than it does on most of the PC's I've seen lately. I also have read that it is somewhat faster than a similarly configured Dell. I assume that this means that the hardware drivers are pretty much up to snuff. OpenGL performance is very good. I have also seen no display driver related problems which have seemed endemic to many PC's.

[owen]

Running Windows on a Mac using Boot Camp will make full use of your hardware - there is absolutely no difference to a PC.

well actually there is ... the MacBook Pro is faster : )

Parallels however is a virtual machine and it does not make full use of your hardware - e.g RAM access is limited to 1.5GB max and your whiz-bang Graphics Card is treated as a Generic 8MB card. Despite this I have used AC10 on Parallels and it runs pretty well i have to say.

There are plenty of comparisons out theresuch as this

[Anonymous]

owen wrote:
Running Windows on a Mac using Boot Camp will make full use of your hardware - there is absolutely no difference to a PC.

well actually there is ... the MacBook Pro is faster : )

Parallels however is a virtual machine and it does not make full use of your hardware - e.g RAM access is limited to 1.5GB max and your whiz-bang Graphics Card is treated as a Generic 8MB card. Despite this I have used AC10 on Parallels and it runs pretty well i have to say.

There are plenty of comparisons out theresuch as this

- and please check out the latest version of Parallels - it is brilliant (make to allocate enough memory to the "graphical department") otherwise AC10 is not running very well in OpenGL:-)

[Haneef Tayob]

Laszlo wrote:

But seriously Vista is not and will not be fully supported by AC10 (not even with future hot fixes).
FYI - work for Vista support in future major AC releases is in progress...

Laszlo

$$$ - I can see a lot of money leaving my pocket.
I need to urgently upgrade my pc and can't consider a Mac.
Looks like I'll have to stick to the outdated XP.
What happens when AC11 come$ out. What if it runs more optimally on Vista than on XP. I remember when I was on Win98, I was forced to upgrade to Win2000 to give me a stable platform. If it does, I'll have to then fork out for a Vi$ta upgrade.