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Delcam's Plans for Windows 7 and 64 Bit OS Support

Key Points

  • XP32/XP64 and Vista32/Vista64 will continue to be supported
  • Windows 7 64-bit will be supported in the future
  • Windows 7 32-bit will NOT be supported

Dear Customers,

Delcam currently provides 32-bit versions of its software to run on Intel x86 compatible computers running on XP32/XP64 and Vista32/Vista64.

We will begin to offer 64-bit versions of our software that will be suitable for machines with AMD64/Intel-64 (formerly known as EM64T) compatible processors, later in 2009. These products will initially be available for XP64 and Vista64.

Microsoft will introduce Windows 7 on October 22nd, 2009. We expect our existing products will run on Windows 7 without change. However, we do not plan to produce 32-bit versions of our software built and tested on Windows 7. We will only provide support for 64-bit versions of our software, running on 64-bit versions of Windows 7.

What this means for you:

  • You should ensure you buy a 64-bit operating system for any future computer purchases.
  • If upgrading to Windows 7 make sure you install the 64-bit version on any computers you intend to put ArtCAM on.

List of AMD64/Intel-64 compatible processors

  • AMD Athlon 64
  • AMD Athlon 64 X2
  • AMD Athlon 64 FX
  • AMD Opteron
  • AMD Turion 64
  • AMD Turion 64 X2
  • AMD Phenom is often followed by X3 or X4 to indicate the number of cores.
  • AMD Phenom II, (45 nm) is often followed by X3 or X4 to indicate the number of cores
  • Intel Pentium D
  • Intel Pentium Extreme Edition
  • Intel Xeon (all models since "Woodcrest")
  • Intel Core 2 (Including Mobile processors since "Merom")
  • Intel Pentium Dual Core 
  • Intel Celeron (Celeron 4x0; Celeron M 5xx)
  • Intel Core i5
  • Intel Core i7

All of these processors include SSE2 support.

Please note: There are few other models that do support this instruction set, but we do not recommend their use and they are not listed here.

More information

You can find more information in Intel and AMD technical papers, or, more accessibly, at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

For more information on Delcam's Plans to Discontinue Support for Non-SSE2 Hardware, please click here.

If you have any queries, please contact us.

Regards,

Model Master