• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Win 7 and ACM

O

OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
Has anyone with a working copy of ACM tried using it under Win 7 or the XP window under Win 7? There will come a time with this old XP system of mine gives up the ghost, and I will have to migrate to a more modern system....Vista is never going to happen....so the choice will be a new system running XP or Win 7......and that choice will be strongly influenced by whether or not the sim utilities I use quite often will run under 7.

ACM, Martin Wright's DXTbmp, MDLmat and MDLcolor, Ivan Hsu's MDLC with Morton's Windows interface, Panel Studio Pro.

If I will lose my tweaking tools under Win 7, I will have to stick with XP...even though Win 7 is awesome! Haven't had a lot of time on it....but got a good look at it while upgrading my bro-in-law's Vista systems to 7...which was the only time I have used Vista. Vista was slow...Win 7 is much faster...no hard ware changes at all.

OBIO
 
I can't speak for ACM or the MDL tweaking utilities. DXTbmp, and FSPanelStudio work great on 7.

7's compatibility mode seems to work pretty smoothly on some older non-FS (PalmOS and DOS) stuff that I'm still using so I suspect that the MDL tweaking tools should work. I would prefer that you get confirmation from someone else that's actually running those specific programs though.
 
Since XP, there have been two different versions of Windows - 32 bit and 64 bit.

32 bit XP was very compatible with older DOS and Windows 3.x applications; the 64 bit version was not compatible at all. I think this held true for Vista, and may also hold true for Windows 7 as well.

So, if you are getting Windows 7, and want to run older Windows and DOS apps; try to get the 32 bit version if you can. It used to be that most boxes you bought in the store had the 32 bit version, but that is not the case anymore; my daughter's new notebook computer has the 64 bit version.

-James
 
I could not get ACM to install on my Win7 (64-bit) machine. It will install on my XP laptop but I don't have FS2004 or FSX installed on the laptop. I may have to just so I can use the tool for making aircrafts.
 
Win 7 Pro 64 has win XP virtual machine built in and can run ACM. You just have to migrate what you are working on back and forth but it's worth the few extra seconds it takes to do this.

Chris
 
NCGent is correct, the XP Mode in Win 7 / 64 will hamdle older apps very nicely, I have done quite a bit of testing of olders apps even a few for members here. The thing to watch for is to make sure you get Professional or Ultimate, the basic version of Win 7 does not support XP Mode.

What XPMode is really is a Virtual machine so you also need to remember you will have tinstall AV and any other security software on it because you Windows 7 security software will not function in XP Mode. Functionally it is pretty stright forward, the only thing that really looks different is your normal drives will show as Mapped Network drives, but that is no big deal, you are able to cut & paste etc from XP to Win 7 apps so it is kind of the best of both worlds.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top