switching installed machines / support

[modernhorse]

Hi all - I've purchased a pc for A:M.  Initially I installed A:M on a Mac (no good).  Now I wish to switch my installation to my pc and have contacted support.  How long can I expect to wait, want to scale my expectations and not be too impatient? - but I am anxious to get going.  I've even thought of purchasing it again and then asking for a refund for the initial purchase if it is going to take too long.

Thank you.  

 

[robcat2075]

Have you done this?...

https://www.hash.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=13&id=17&artlang=en

[modernhorse]

No but I will - so long as this pertains to Windows 10pro as well?   Thanks.

[robcat2075]

The turn-around on that will not be instant. It will happen when Jason has time to check that email.

[modernhorse]

Can anyone here walk me through installing an old A:M. version on a windows 10 machine (if possible).  I tried with XP compatibility with zero luck.  
 

im stuck in limbo land with waiting for support.  Thanks!

[robcat2075]

I think we ascertained that Windows 10 won't work.

If you've already tried the Windows 7 work-around on Windows 10 and it doesn't work, then I don't know of any other option.

[robcat2075]

But you have it working on your mac, right?

[Wildsided]

I don't know if anyone has ever done this successfully, but you could try downloading something like virtual box and running an older version of windows on your modern machine. Then run the old version of A:M in the virtual machine. 

[Roger]

Let me know if you'd like a brief tutorial, I've had XP running in a VM on both Linux and Win 10.    Currently experimenting with getting AM going in a vm, I don't see any reason it wouldn't work so long as you can pass the CD drive through to the VM.    You might be limited to software 3D though, I don't know how GPU passthrough works with virtualbox.

[modernhorse]

Thanks all.  I'll muddle through with my Mac until support gets on this.  I worked a bit with it this weekend and it's not as bad as I initially thought it would be.  Granted I'm not rendering any scenes yet, just modeling, but I've got enough tutorials to get through at the moment.  I'll be patient.  

Appreciate all the thoughts.  Looking forward to getting the new version up and running on PC though.  

[robcat2075]

I'll just alert @Jason Simonds that you've sent a transfer request in.

Maybe he can get to it this weekend.

[Jason Simonds]

@modernhorse

I have updated the 'get hostid' program to include win10. I did not know it was not working. I'm sorry. PM me here the file it makes and I will set everything up.