RS 5.11/5.12 in windows 64-bit

RobotStudio
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Hi,

has anyone practical experiences with RS 5.11 or 5.12 based in windows 64-bit operating systems like XP 64-bit or vista business 64-bit ?

In the release notes i can read:
Note: RobotStudio 5.12 does not support 64-bit editions of Windows XP Professional or Vista Business or Enterprise

But: What does this mean ? - Is the software working (without the benefits of 64-bit), or not ?
Are there problems and limitations, or not ?

Please tell me your experiences.

Thanks to all.
Klaus

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Hi Klaus,
We can not guarantee that RS will work correct with 64-bit OS. You may run into problem, specially with the Virtual Controller. Therefore are we not recommending 64-bit OS when you run RobotStudio.

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Hi Anders,
thank you for your hints. - That is what i have expectetd.
But i want to know, if there are any experiences with it.

Has anyone installed RS 5.11 or 5.12 in 64-bit system with or without problems ?

I can not believe that i am the first user, interessting in 64-bit systems with RS.

Many thanks for further posts.
Klaus

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Anders,

are there any plans for Vista64bit support?

Dean.

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I have installed it on Vista Ultimate 64 bit without any problems, I used the 30 day trial on my home computer without any problems as it was faster than my work laptop.

I did have a couple of Virtual Controller crashes, but i get plenty of those running 32 bit anyway so I didnt see any extra problems because it was 64 bit (and having 8gb memory certinaly helped)

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Anders,

What problems exist on the VC specifically? I recently upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit and can’t seem to get a PCSDK application to work…I keep getting an error related to the ABB.Robotics.Adapters.IRC5 assembly:

“Could not load file or assembly ‘ABB.Robotics.Adapters.IRC5’” when doing a “new NetworkScanner()”.

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Hi Dan,

A .NET application will run in 64-bit mode by default, but the PCSDK only supports 32-bit operation. Therefore you must change the build settings of the .exe to target 32-bit only:

Alternatively, if you can’t recompile the app:
http://blogs.intesoft.net/post/2007/12/Running-NET-Apps-in-32-bit-mode-on-64-bit-Windows.aspx

regards,
Johannes