Autocad for DOS in Win98?

[Rudders]

Anyone got Autocad 11 for DOS to work in Win98?, protected memory seems to affect it. How do you get around this?

Mike
cannot afford to pay another £4500 for a newer version!

[MacGyver]

After working with AutoCAD for over 9 years, my recommendation is to run it in DOS and don't try to run it in Windows. I would expand this advice to any version of AutoCAD for DOS. With such a critical application, I wouldn't waste my time trying to get it to work in an unsupported/unintended environment. Performance will suffer since you've got two memory hungry programs running at once.

Your best bet is to set up a multiboot menu thru config.sys (post here or email me if you need instructions) so the computer gives you the choice of booting into DOS or Windows.

The problem is that AutoCAD has it's own way of managing memory, temp files, virtual memory, etc., and it doesn't get along with Windows at all, since Windows is trying to do the same things.

I'm not saying that getting AutoCAD for DOS to work in Windows is impossible, but the end results will no doubt be disappointing. If you want to try, make a DOS shortcut to the ACAD EXE file (not the batch file) and then you can play with different memory settings through the properties of that shortcut. I can't recommend any settings because I never got it to work with Windows 95 and R12 for DOS.

If you need to run Windows and AutoCAD R11 at the same time, my route would be to get a second computer to run AutoCAD. It won't take much, maybe a Pentium 166 with 32 megs of RAM.

Do not use this advice with another version, say R2000! http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/biggrin.gif

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[This message has been edited by MacGyver (edited January 16, 2001).]

[Rudders]

Many thanx,

I know, Acad has a mind of it's own with memory!
Much too expensive too. It is only a program after all.

Mike
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