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+ | ====== Does Rhino Run on Vista? ====== | ||
+ | > **Summary: | ||
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+ | Rhino 3.0 and 4.0 run on Windows Vista, but the 3-D display performance (OpenGL) can be much worse than on Windows XP or 2000 using the same hardware. [[http:// | ||
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+ | Vista also has new security features that may cause a few extra security messages during startup. | ||
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+ | =====Update===== | ||
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+ | **Rhino V4 starts with no plug-ins loaded** | ||
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+ | A few users reported that installing Rhino V4 (SR2 and newer) on Vista has resulted in no plug-ins and occasionally no toolbars loaded unless logged in and running as the local Administrator. | ||
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+ | **Solution** | ||
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+ | Users report that turning off User Account Control (Control Panel - User Accounts), and temporarily disabling any antivirus and system protection software before running the Rhino installation again, solves the problem. | ||
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+ | Added 5 March 2009 - John Brock | ||
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+ | =====Video and accelerated 3-D display===== | ||
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+ | Both Rhino 3.0 and 4.0 use [[rhino: | ||
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+ | **Non-accelerated OpenGL** | ||
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+ | Windows Vista supports non-accelerated OpenGL, sometimes called OpenGL Software Emulation or Standard OpenGL. Rhino runs with non-accelerated OpenGL, but because it is not accelerated, | ||
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+ | Windows Vista does not support accelerated [[rhino: | ||
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+ | **Upgrading from XP to Vista** | ||
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+ | You may have an [[rhino: | ||
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+ | **New computers with Vista** | ||
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+ | If you are looking to buy a new computer with Vista pre-loaded, be sure to check if an [[rhino: | ||
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+ | **Graphics drivers for Vista** | ||
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+ | [[http:// | ||
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+ | <color blue> | ||
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+ | =====Memory===== | ||
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+ | Vista uses more memory than XP does. While the total amount of memory available for a process is unchanged, the amount of available RAM will be smaller with Vistas. Thus, if you are running up against the limits of memory with Rhino 3.0 on Windows XP, it will get worse with Vista. The maximum amount of RAM that Rhino 3.0 can use on Vista is 2GB. | ||
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+ | Rhino 4.0, however, is compiled to use 3GB of RAM if it's available. On both Windows XP and Windows Vista, Rhino can use 3GB if it is available. More memory will be available with XP than with Vista, because XP uses less memory. | ||
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+ | If memory is very important to you, XP will make more available for Rhino than Vista does. | ||
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+ | =====Rhino 3.0===== | ||
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+ | There are several problems in Rhino 3.0 when running on Vista that will not be fixed. McNeel recommends upgrading to Rhino 4.0 if you use Windows Vista. | ||
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+ | The problems are: | ||
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+ | * [[rhino: | ||
+ | * Several dialog boxes appear at startup telling you that Rhino cannot write to the registry. | ||
+ | * Vista does not ship with WinHelp (WinHlp32.exe). Rhino 3.0's help file is a WinHelp file, so you will not be able to see it on Vista unless you download the following update from Microsoft. **[[http:// | ||
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+ | Advice on running V3.0 under Vista from McNeel' | ||
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+ | You can try configuring Rhino to run in certain compatibility modes in Vista...Try the following: | ||
+ | - Right-click on the Rhino icon on your desktop and select **Properties**. | ||
+ | - Click on the **Compatibility** tab. | ||
+ | - Check the option **Run this program in compatibility mode for:** and then select **Windows XP (Service Pack 2)**. | ||
+ | - Further down on the dialog check these two options: | ||
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+ | [X] Disable visual themes | ||
+ | [X] Disable desktop composition | ||
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+ | **Note:** //Disabling visual themes will hide the red X closer button on floating toolbars.// | ||
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+ | That should hopefully help get V3 running a little better...but note: This will also cause all of Vista' | ||
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+ | =====Customer experiences===== | ||
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+ | When I try to install Rhinoceros 3.0 on Vista, it says that it is already running and to close it before resuming setup, although it's not even installed and no other instances of Rhinoceros is running. What's up? | ||
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+ | Added 2/27/2007 Good morning Pascal. | ||
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+ | <color red>This is primarily due to how Vista treats mixing of display technologies on a single window which was allowed in the past. Applying either of the fixes mentioned in the display section above should help with this situation - Steve Baer</ | ||
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+ | Added 7/26/2007 Hi... My wife is an educator in the field of jewelry design and she uses Rhino. We want to get a new PC that will run Rhino 4. Most new PCs are only available with Vista. If we get a new PC with a graphics card from, say, NVIDIA that does come with a hardware [[rhino: | ||
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+ | Added 7/26/2007: Installed V4 SR1 on my Vista notebook, but the toolbar pop-up sub-commands are still inaccessible. The sub-command frame pops up, but it's empty/ | ||
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+ | Is that on a new machine that come with Vista or on an old machine that used to run something else? - P. Shenkin | ||
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+ | My only Vista experience is on a new machine built (supposedly) for Vista. Also, I'm not sure my problems are all OpenGL-related: | ||
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