I have finally received my program (Dynascape, a windows-native landscape design program), and I’m trying to load it on my MacBook laptop. I partitioned my hard drive, I loaded up BootCamp, I loaded up Windows XP version 5.1, and now I’m trying to load my software on the Windows side, but it gets to a certain point in the install and just stops. It says that I need some of my system files updated in order to install the program, it re-boots, it brings up a window labelled “system 32,” and then it just sits there looking stupid.
Anybody have any ideas what I can do to get this program installed? I’ve sent an email to support, but of course they’re in Toronto and long gone for the day (and if they find out I’m running it on a Mac with BootCamp, they probably won’t support it anyway).
A Mac with Bootcamp is just a PC, I can’t see why they wouldn’t support it.
Have you applied all current updates from Microsoft? Do you know what system files it says need updating? Do you know what the app uses - Java, .NET, anything?
They might not support it because there are people in the world who don’t understand that a Mac running BootCamp is just a PC, and this gives them an out. I don’t plan on telling them it’s a Mac laptop unless I have to.
Hmm, there might be updates from Microsoft that I need to download - I’ll give that a try. I don’t know which system files it wants - it just says files, it doesn’t say which ones. The application is a CADD type program - I don’t know what the app uses (Java or NET-wise).
CAD programs are more often bug-ridden shit than not. This is ironic considering the insane prices they cost. This is a bug in your program, and you need to follow up on it with people who know something about Dynascape. Obvious suggestion: install the latest XP service packs, and find the latest version of Dynascape.
Okay, I just spent the last three hours trying to install all the updates for Windows, and got 121 installed, and the critical one, Service Pack 3, will. not. install - it wants some odosleader.dll or something somewhere else or named something else or a fresh blood sacrifice under a blood red moon or something.
And the CAD program still won’t install, either. Business as usual when working on the Windows side. I’ll be chatting with support tomorrow - I really wanted to get this done today, but Windows is Windows. I could have gotten Vectorworks which works natively on Mac, but nooooo, I had to get the fancy Windows only CAD program that makes such beautiful designs. :mad:
