[MAVEN05]

Well, XP no problem,most manufactures test machines with XP actually and XP is recommended for customer.
Win7 32 bits also work on with actual license copy. 64bit is hard. Anybody here succeed by 64 bits here ?
Best regards,
Ms.Mary

You see Ms.Mary
I already said that Win7 x86 everything works well.
Was not able to run NcStudio on Win7 x64.
So if you want to run NcStudio on Windows 7, you should have Windows 7 32bit (x86).
I heard that NcStudio works also on Windows 8 but I have not tested that myself so i cannot tell anything from my own experience.

[cnczane]

On the basis of a current extensive search, I conclude:
* only 32-bit versions of Windows (Win 7, 8, etc. bear testing; 64-bit versions don't bother to test)
* 64-bit Windows 7 does not even detect the PCI card
* Windows 7 (for sure) and probably later "block" conventional install of INF driver files, but allow for "Legacy" install of hardware in Device Manager (right-click computer, add legacy hardware, find and select INF file--unsuccessful for me because my Win 7 is 64-bit)

Incidentally,
* no good to try installing, say, WinXP, and testing NCstudio install in a VirtualBox virtual machine in 32-bit RTAI version of Ubuntu (which LinuxCNC users will recognize as required for that app) because VirtualBox requires libraries incompatible with RTAI (interface to a PCI card and timing issues are likely to be problematic anyway from a VM)