Installing Future Solidworks versions

[Melvang]

Just seen this today but Solidworks 2013 is the first version to not support XP Pro (32 or 64bit) 2014 will not install on Vista (32 or 64) and 2015 will not install on anything 32 bit which means Win 7 32 bit is out.  Just a little FYI

[mkawa]

if you have a recent intel chips, they all speak amd64 (aka x86_64) etc. you can install 64bit kernels on any of these machines. basically, if you have a core series processor or above (with literally like 3 exceptions), you processor speaks the predominant 64-bit instruction set. so this is just a software not a hardware issue. naturally, if you're running an AMD chip, they have been speaking amd64 since the K8 core. (> 10 years)

[Melvang]

if you have a recent intel chips, they all speak amd64 (aka x86_64) etc. you can install 64bit kernels on any of these machines. basically, if you have a core series processor or above (with literally like 3 exceptions), you processor speaks the predominant 64-bit instruction set. so this is just a software not a hardware issue. naturally, if you're running an AMD chip, they have been speaking amd64 since the K8 core. (> 10 years)

That may be but I was just relaying info I found on their website.  It was saying it won't even install on those OS's.

[mkawa]

sure, but all those OSes save for XP have been distributed with both the 32-bit and 64-bit kernel distributions included. if you're running 32-bit win7 or win8 it's a simple cleanup and soft-reinstall to migrate to 64-bit

[Melvang]

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