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OT PSA: Microsoft Drop Win7 & Win8.1 Support for Latest Gen CPU's

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  • frankrblowfrankrblow Posts: 2,052

    Just an alternate possiblilty: Why not just buy an old PC that will support your program/s without fiddling with VM stuff?

    I have Virtual Box on my Windows 10 machine to run XP 32bit, but the VM can be buggy. So I bought an old PC at a garage sale for $20 and it works fine after a full reformat of the drive.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,242

    ...I would go the opposite, get an older system to run Linux for online purposes and put more into your 3D production system.  I was fortunate as the folks who moved out (and said they are not coming back  to get any more stuff) abandoned a slightly older Acer notebook which as Linux and a battery that apparently still keeps a decent charge.  I need to get a matching charger brick (not that expensive) and after updating the OS I'd have a nice solid system for al my online needs. If I can figure out how to get the DIM to work I can use it fr DLing all my content purchases and Daz programme updates (as well as public betas) then transfer those to my W7 production system which is offline.

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    kyoto kid said:

    ...I would go the opposite, get an older system to run Linux for online purposes and put more into your 3D production system.  I was fortunate as the folks who moved out (and said they are not coming back  to get any more stuff) abandoned a slightly older Acer notebook which as Linux and a battery that apparently still keeps a decent charge.  I need to get a matching charger brick (not that expensive) and after updating the OS I'd have a nice solid system for al my online needs. If I can figure out how to get the DIM to work I can use it fr DLing all my content purchases and Daz programme updates (as well as public betas) then transfer those to my W7 production system which is offline.

    DIM works fine under the free VirtualBox.  Use it to download, then copy the data to the WIndows box to install.  Works great.

    Kendall

  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,243
    dragonfly_2004 said:

    Just an alternate possiblilty: Why not just buy an old PC that will support your program/s without fiddling with VM stuff?

    Two reasons for me (other people may have other reasons).  One, there may come a day when you can't buy an old PC that is equivalent to your current PC, if they stop making the older processors.   Two, even if they keep making what I have now forever, I would of course like to be able to make use of the dramatic decrease in rendering times made possible by the increased number of cores in newer processors, if at all possible.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited July 2017
    kyoto kid said:
    ...you have to pay for a VNWare licence?

    VMWare do a free version.

    https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0

    I use both VMware and VBox.

    I've not tried running Daz through the free player; not sure if it has access to the GPU like the full versions.

    ... It doesn't.

    Post edited by nicstt on
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