What you need to know about SolidWorks 2007 and Vista
Information provided by SolidWorks Corporation
Support for Microsoft Windows Vista
Starting with 2007 SP3, SolidWorks will support Microsoft Windows Vista. This will be a Pre-Release version. First customer ship is planned for SP4.
What versions of Vista is supported
Currently only the Business and Ultimate editions of Vista are officially supported. Home Premium, Home Basic, and all X64 versions are not supported.
Other information you need to know
- SolidWorks 2007 Vista version is currently in pre-release
- Please note that the graphics card drivers for open GL products like SolidWorks are not equivalent to those available for Windows XP. For this reason SolidWorks 2007 Vista version currently runs only in Software OpenGL mode.
- For optimal performance, SolidWorks recommends that users continue to use SolidWorks 2007 running on Windows XP at this time.
- As new Vista OpenGL drivers become available, SolidWorks will perform certification tests on those drivers results of the driver tests for the SolidWorks Vista version will be posted at: http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/VideoCardTesting.html
- For those who must run SolidWorks on Windows Vista, please understand that while this version of SolidWorks is fully supported, graphic performance will be significantly slower than on Windows XP.
For now I would recommend to hold off and wait to run SolidWorks 2007 Vista version. Ask yourself this do you want to run the first version of SolidWorks for Vista on the first version of Microsoft Vista? If it was me I would wait for SolidWorks 2008 to switch to Vista.
I have heard horror stories from people telling me that the softwares that they have don't work on Vista since they either bought the new operating system or bought new computers with Vista on it. Lots of hardware is also not supported. You cannot go back to XP either from what I am told if the new computer came with Vista. This is truly a Revolting Development as William Bendix use to say on TV in a different generation or two ago. Maybe three. I'm thinking seriously now about Mac and also about selling my stock.
Posted by: Richard Williams | March 08, 2007 at 06:21 AM
hi im from turkey im mechanical engineering student i was usin sw2007 but when i take new notebook with vista. sw dont work what i have to do? do you have upgrade file for sw2007 to vista?
Posted by: recep | July 23, 2007 at 05:06 AM
is there actually a way to run solid works on Vista home premium. i just got a new laptop and IT WON'T RUN. a message saying "unable to find resource DDL" keeps appearing. Help
Posted by: cormac deasy | December 01, 2007 at 09:37 AM
its all screwed up......... When will Bill G evey get it right
Posted by: Alistair | January 18, 2008 at 07:51 AM
please i like to find out if soildworks will work will window vista AMD ATHLON 64. if so how can i go about it?
Posted by: sky2 | October 13, 2008 at 02:26 PM
sorry it wont Solidworks did it when they went from win 98 to XP yay new operating system a great oportunity to screw our faithfull clients
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