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Solidworks 2007 and windows vista
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Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

(OP)
I am having trouble running sldworks on my new laptop which has vista home premium.
The installation goes fine and I can run sldworks when it prompts me at the end of installation. However once I close the program and try to open it at another time, windows gives me a message saying Soliworks has stoped working, windows will close the program. So now I can't even open the program.

Can anyone help me with this problem.

Thanks in advance,
AR

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

What are your laptop stats (graphics card, chip, RAM, all that noise)?  You likely have a driver conflict of some sort and may need to update your graphics card driver (or something similar).

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe transcends reason.

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

(OP)
I have an intel dual core processor, 2GB ram, ATI video card which is pretty decent.

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but;

1) Unless you have a ATI Fire GL card it will probably be next to useless for SolidWorks.

2) The currently available versions of SolidWorks are not compatible with Vista. SW07-SP3 will be the first release to be compatible ... due out anytime.

cheers

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

(OP)
Can I download a SP3 without having Solidworks open?

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

Check the Customer Portal "News and Tech Alerts" section.

Quote:

With the release of 2007 SP3, a separate download or DVD will be required to install on Microsoft® Windows Vista®.

I take it from that statement, that a clean install will be necessary.

cheers

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

have you tried running solidworks in windows xp sp2 compatibility mode

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

I got this from SW on vista the other day. After SP3. is released and is installed, there will not be any drivers that are certified, because of the Mfg of the cards, so its recommended that you run SW using the software OpenGL option activated.

See FAQ for turning this option on.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

Solidworks is 90% slower under Vista. I have tried it, and it is almost unusable. Do not upgrade to Vista if you run Solidworks.

nVidia has hardware OpenGL, yet the Solidworks Vista Beta still does not use it. It seems to have the software version of OpenGL hardcoded even if the 'software opengl' checkbox is unchecked.

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

You have to check it (OpenGL) and if you are running it on Vista without SP3... what can you expect... its not supported yet.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

If I remeber corectly SolidWorks stated that the vista beta version would be set to run only in software openGl mode.

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

SW stated to me that when SP3.0 comes out that there will probably not be any Software drivers so its recommended to run the Software OpenGL. Until the Manufacturers of those cards produce drivers for that version. The same problems that 64-bit dealt with when it was released.

Regards

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

That's good news, but are they certified by SW yet? if they are not certified then may run into more problems then just switching to Software OpenGL.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

As anyone tried running 2007 sp2.2 on Vista in Winxp compatability mode?

Seems you can't buy a home pc (Dell, Gateway, HP) anymore with WinXP...only Vista. They give you that option on their workstations but people don't want a workstation for home use.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP5.1 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.1 on WinXP SP2

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

yes suggested it earlier in the thread

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

however  i think whats more important is the fact that over on lots of forum the same question is being asked

does ug run on vista
does pro e run on vista
does catia run on vista
hey autocad doesnt run on vista

etc etc

the problem being people are spending so much time meddling and wondering it makes you wonder why they are not producing i havent seen anywhere or anything in vista that is even bordering on great let alone making it worth upgrading

and i definitely havent seen anything in vista from the beta releases that has intimated , vista will greatly improve your engineering departments productivity it seems people just want something new to look at

its taken a long time to get to a point where people are happy just to complain about their software running on xp safe in the knowledge they can at least fix it

,makes me wonder if cad/engineering guys and gals are just glutton for punishment when they willingly open up a new can of headaches especially hen theres little to be done at the moment

for me its a sit it out till it actually does benefit me

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

Hard to sit out sometimes when any new computer you order only has Vista as an option. Go to Dell, gateway, or HP and build a new home ssytem.....WinXP is not an option.

Are you saying you have Swx 2007 sp2.2 running on Vista? How does it perform?

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP5.1 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.1 on WinXP SP2

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

Have you made any progress in getting solidworks '06 up and running with vista?  I am having the exact same problem with my new machine at home.  Any ideas?

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

Have you tried running SW06 using the XP compatability mode?

cheers

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

Jason yes

i have vista running on xp both the existing install from disc

and sw for vista beta

in fact sw for vista was a bigger headache than running xp in sp2 mode

its slow but not unworkable

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

An obvious commie with a comment like "Please join us on the side of freedom by saying NO not just to Windows Vista and other DRM-enabled products, but to proprietary software in general."

I do regret installing Vista, and I am very glad my new laptop came with XP and they only mailed me Vista later (which I am not going to install now).

On the plus side, Vista looks nice and cleans up some XP user interface nasties.

RE: Solidworks 2007 and windows vista

Yeah, I don't take the stance of the apparent site owners in lots of regards--so take that article with a grain of salt, too (could be lots of distortions/exaggerations in favor of their own stance).

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe transcends reason.

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