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Which windows vista for ArchiCAD11?

Rajesh Patil
Expert
which OS is good for ArchiCAD 11? Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate? do reply as i am in need of same. Currently using windows xp pro with archicad11.
Rajesh Patil
AC 09-27 | INT | WIN11 64
Dell Inspiron 7591, Core i9, 9880H 2.30GHz, 16.0GB, NVidia GeForce GTX1650, 4.0GB, SSD Internal 500GB, Dell SSD External 250GB
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
The following web page:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/Archicad_11#head-6a54b9d8b90ee79de0cdea13ec185c6de989f09b

says:

Window Vista® Business, Executive or Ultimate Edition is required for ArchiCAD 11.
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Rajesh wrote:
which OS is good for ArchiCAD 11? Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate? do reply as i am in need of same. Currently using windows xp pro with archicad11.
I would not suggest any Vista to anyone including the worst enemy.
In Your shoes I would sitick to XP...

Best Regards,
Piotr
Anonymous
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I am sticking with XP for the time being, as are most people I know. One of my clients got a laptop with Vista installed and had to replace it with XP due to various problems (I don't remember the details though). I would wait at least until service pack 2 (as I did with XP back in the day).
Anonymous
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Vista is terrible.

I went back to XP and found archiCAd to run alot faster.

My issues with vista were problems with UAC and certain addons that stored data, and that the data I would put in was not being saved.
Drag and drop of mod files did not work at all, both ways.
I had terrible problems with dwg / dxf files not importing, xrefing, etc into archiCAD, archiCAD would crash.

stay with XP
Thomas Holm
Booster
Danj wrote:
...I went back to XP and found archiCAd to run alot faster....
Don't hesitate for too long...
http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/archives/2008/01/save_windows_xp.html
AC4.1-AC26SWE; MacOS13.5.1; MP5,1+MBP16,1
Anonymous
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Will Windows Vista Service Pack 2 allow Vista Home Premium to run Archicad 11?
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
I have Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 (SP2 has not come out yet) and AC 11 runs fine on it.
I guess SP2 will not contain any dramatic change that will cause this to change.
Loving Archicad since 1995 - Find Archicad Tips at x.com/laszlonagy
AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac28