Does anyone know of a way to get AutoCAD R14 to work on a computer running Windows Vista? At this point in time I really can't afford to upgrade to a newer release.
AutoCad R14 and Vista
Apr 11, 2008
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Unless you can get it to run in Windows NT or Windows 98 Compatibilty mode then no there is no hope of getting R14 to run in Vista. Vista is at least two Windows OS kernels adavnced from the Windows versions that R14 was completely compatible with.
Daryl Stockton
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On 13 Apr, 20:41, "iCADsales.com" wrote: I use ACAD 14 with XP without a problem.
Go to the Autodesk website and search the user forums. There is a fix involving a dll file. I've had R14 running on Vista on one of my systems without any problems.
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