Autodesk Design Review 2008: Supported Platforms

Autodesk Design Review 2008 is now available as a download from the Autodesk web site.

My posting of Is your system ready for Autodesk Design Review 2008 prompted many questions regarding Windows Vista. There are eleven flavors of Windows Vista yet our system requirements only list Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. The decision to do so is a reflection of where we have fully certified Autodesk Design Review to install and operate; however, some limited testing occurs on other operating systems as part of our release process.

Operating System	Processor	Browser	Coverage
Windows Vista Ultimate	32-bit	IE7	full testing
	64-bit	IE7	full testing
Windows Vista Enterprise	32-bit	IE7	limited testing
	64-bit	IE7	limited testing
Windows Vista Business	32-bit	IE7	limited testing
	64-bit	IE7	limited testing
Windows Vista Home Premium	32-bit	IE7	limited testing
	64-bit	IE7	limited testing
Windows Vista Home Basic	32-bit	IE7	limited testing
	64-bit	IE7	limited testing
Windows Vista Starter	32-bit	IE7	no testing
Windows XP Professional	32-bit	IE7	full testing
		IE6	full testing
	64-bit	IE7	full testing
		IE6	full testing
Windows XP Home	32-bit	IE7	full testing
		IE6	full testing
Windows 2000 SP4	32-bit	IE7	full testing
		IE6	full testing

Note that like AutoCAD and some other Autodesk applications, Autodesk Design Review 2008 leverages OpenGL hardware acceleration for 3D graphics. A software rendering pipeline is available for systems like Windows Vista that support Direct3D instead of OpenGL. Your mileage may vary. In addition, due to differences in the system architecture of Microsoft Vista as compared to other versions of Windows, there are a few known issues for Autodesk Design Review on Vista. These are documented in the Autodesk Design Review 2008 Read Me. You can try Autodesk Design Review 2008 on the flavors of Windows Vista that have not undergone full testing. From a technical standpoint, it will probably work. It's just that we do not list these other flavors in our system requirements, because we do not conduct full feature testing on these operating system variations. As such these are considered unsupported platforms.

Comments

[saso]

Personally I would prefer you would test Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Home Premium over Windows 2000 SP4, since this two systems are supposed to be the most used and wide spread...

[Scott Sheppard]

Saso - thank you for the comment. By testing on Windows Vista Ultimate edition, our QA feels the applicaton has a better chance of also running on the other flavors. If we picked Vista Business instead, there is no guarantee that Autodesk Design Review would work on Windows Vista Ultimate. We do have a fixed amount of QA time and people. We are encouraging our beta testers to provide any feedback on the flavors of Vista.

[saso]

Well I have faith in you so yes I believe it will work just fine. It was just a thought, since those will probably be the two most used versions of Windows (or would it be Home Premium and Enterprise :\ ) and they are the one with limitations (missing features) that could potentially make problems.

[Corey]

Fully tested with xp and ie7. I dont think so. I just installed and get an immediate error viewing the autodesk sample on autodesks site.