64 bit compatibility

Madko said:
Hi Guys,

Is the nutcracker program windows 7, 64 bit compatible?

Cheers
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xlights is 32 bit and works on windows xp, windows 7 32 and 64 bit, windows 8 32 or 64 bit.


xlights is so compact (It uses less than 50mb of memory) and so fast (uses 24% of one cpu thread) that there is no reason to compile it into two versions.


if we every start to run out of power, we will first make it multi-threaded before we make it 64 bit. there is no reason to make it multi threaded yet.


thanks
sean
 
I am curious as to how many versions and or locations of Xlights.Nutcracker you have installed on your machine ?
To resolve your issues this may help.
If more than one , I would suggest a clean slate and fresh install of the latest version .
after removing all traces of xlights , do a restart of your machine before a fresh install .
 
Hi guys,


Reason for asking is because I transferred my HLS program and sequence, as well as the latest copy of xlights/nutcracker program onto a portable hard drive. I took all these from my laptop which is running XP and started running it on another laptop running windows 7 64 bit. I only have 1 HLS program and 1 Xlight program on this portable.


The first issue I had was trying to open my sequence in HLS. It said unable to open file. I tried opening it normally, tried opening it as administrator. I then did a compatibility check which allowed me to open HLS and my sequence. When I tried to save the settings it said there was a compatibility issue still. However, it still let me run my program, save and edit. I need to keep using this compatibility checker each time I open HLS to be able to open my sequence.


My second issue was when I created a Hlsnc file within xlights and tried putting it into HLS I again got the same error which was unable to open file.


I haven't had time to run the portable hard drive back onto my other laptop to see if I still have these issue.


I'm sure your thinking why change laptops in the first place? I did this because firstly my graphics card on the XP laptop isn't good enough to run the preview function ( which now I have finally used on the windows 7 64 bit laptop and is excellent and makes programming a lot easier). Secondly I was having some Xlight issues transferring hlscn files onto my pixel plane line. I think this was due to having the 3.0.0 version and not the latest which i have now. Angus gave me a Hlsnc file which I dropped onto my pixel plane line and worked perfectly. So I'm guessing it was the version I was running. (When I confirm this ill post my results back on the other post to close that issue off)
 
You may be experiencing issues with file path associations as well. I tried running HLS from a portable and experienced a couple of problems too. When you created your sequences on the xp machine, HLS would have associated those files with a particular location on your drive and when you switched to the portable, those locations changed (well, that was my experience). I was able to run HLS from the portable after a bit of fiddling. Did you install Xlights on the portable or just copy the folder over?
 
I installed xlight directly onto my portable.
Yes it does seem to have some file path issues.
 
Madko said:
I installed xlight directly onto my portable.
Yes it does seem to have some file path issues.
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"Yes it does seem to have some file path issues."

HLS or xLights?
if you did a fresh install of xlights on your portable, there should be no issues with paths.

thanks
sean
 
HLS seems to have the file location issues on windows 7 because I have no dramas back on XP! Everything works great however I can't use the preview function due to my poor graphics card under window XP. Now I have used the preview function shows how much easier it is to program and is a very useful tool.
 
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