castle-link and windows vista?

[speedy]

Hi !

Will the castle link sofware work with windows vista ?

[jhautz]

http://www.castlecreations.com/downloads.html

Read the bottom right hand corner of the page. The answer officially is no. But it appears you can "trick" the software into working if you run vista with some specific settings.

[Arct1k]

This is old - Yes now it uses a HID driver however only vista 32 - Vista 64 (me) still in the cold... :)

how do you tell if your windows vista is 32 or 64?

[magman]

Originally Posted by bustitup

how do you tell if your windows vista is 32 or 64?

Go into control panel, look in system, it says it there, at least mine does

[jayjay283]

if you cant cram more than 3gb of ram in there you have 32bit vista like me YAY 4 CRAP lol

not that good with computers but i got mine to work with windows vista.. download it then go into your download files and right click it and run it as adminstrator and click through all the warnings got mine working no problem.

[wallot]

yes you can have 3GB+ in 32bit vista with bit of tweaking ;)

and the guide how to make Castle Link work in Vista is now on CC website

[jayjay283]

Id ask you how you did that Wallot but I only have 3gb anyway, and am flat busted thanks to xmas lol

[Arct1k]

Wallot you have 4gb in your system but your pc will not be using it all - 32bit OS means 32bit max memory addressing i.e. 4gb - That has to include ALL memory such as graphic cards etc.

My graphics card alone has 640MB memory which would mean only 3.3gb of that system memory.

[Unsullied_Spy]

Originally Posted by wallot

yes you can have 3GB+ in 32bit vista with bit of tweaking ;)

and the guide how to make Castle Link work in Vista is now on CC website

I've got 4 1GB G. Skill sticks in mine and it read 3.25 until I updated to SP1. Now it reads as 4GB but unless they found some tricky way to use the last .75GB you are still only getting 3.25GB of RAM. 32 bit software can only address up to 3.25GB. Don't recall exactly how much 64bit can do but it's in the TBs.

[wallot]

of course it can only address 4GB - Video RAM (4096-768 in my case), but it just looks cool

well thanks all......... I did what was told and it loaded and works fine