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wwswimming
11-14-2009, 12:02 AM
I have an "old but reliable" computer that has Windows 2000 as the OS. It's a 3 GHz Pentium 4 on the Asus P4C800E Motherboard, one of the primo motherboards of the 865/875 chipset generation.

I'd like to be able to use it to run Blender. I like the way the screen looks, easy on the eyes.

Also, it's a low-overhead OS, so the ap. (e.g., Blender) gets most of the CPU horsepower.

If I use the Visual C Redistributable, according to the Microsoft website, it is compatible with Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.

Then, in order to run correctly, I need Python. I have Python 2.6.2.

Has anyone else experimented with the Blender / Windows 2000 combination ?

Are there any variations of the install config. that need to be changed for it to work good ? e.g. using a different version of Python with Windows 2000.
fktt
11-14-2009, 05:56 AM
based on this old(june 2008) blendernation report,
systems older than NT(2000 & xp) gen wont run default/official blender builds:

http://www.blendernation.com/window-98-and-windows-me-cant-launch-the-last-blender-version-anymore/

There's supposedly still some way to compile blender even for the older versions, though. :)

anyway's I'm guessing you should be fine,
only real way to find out though, is to test it. :)
wwswimming
11-14-2009, 02:17 PM
based on this old(june 2008) blendernation report,
systems older than NT(2000 & xp) gen wont run default/official blender builds:

http://www.blendernation.com/window-98-and-windows-me-cant-launch-the-last-blender-version-anymore/

There's supposedly still some way to compile blender even for the older versions, though. :)

anyway's I'm guessing you should be fine,
only real way to find out though, is to test it. :)

oh well

first i upgraded the Win2K service pack to SP4.

then i updated the Windows Installer.

then i tried to install a fresh download of the Visual C Redistributable.

& kept getting the same error message.

now i'm thinking - INSTALL LINUX. as much as i like Win2K ...

then the question is - which version of Linux ? i bought (don't laugh :-) Red Hat & Mandrake Linux when i was playing with Linux in 2002-2003.

but ... this being 2009 ... which version of Linux is good to learn for 3D aps ?

will check Autodesk to see what it says about Max & Maya compatibility.

i have a feeling the answer will be Ubuntu.
handlebar
11-14-2009, 07:43 PM
Ubuntu is a good choice to start with. I have a two drive set-up with ubuntu 64bit and windows 7 64bit, i spend most of my time in ubuntu though, blender runs great on it.
Cromulent
11-14-2009, 09:27 PM
based on this old(june 2008) blendernation report,
systems older than NT(2000 & xp) gen wont run default/official blender builds:

http://www.blendernation.com/window-98-and-windows-me-cant-launch-the-last-blender-version-anymore/

There's supposedly still some way to compile blender even for the older versions, though. :)

anyway's I'm guessing you should be fine,
only real way to find out though, is to test it. :)

You got that completely wrong.

Windows 2000 and XP are newer than Windows NT (in fact they were both based on the NT core). If you read the post properly you would see that it was referring to Windows 98 and Windows ME.
fktt
11-15-2009, 09:13 AM
You got that completely wrong.

Windows 2000 and XP are newer than Windows NT (in fact they were both based on the NT core). If you read the post properly you would see that it was referring to Windows 98 and Windows ME.

What I meant was that they are based on NT.
And my point was precisely that based on that article 98 and ME aren't supported anymore,
but there's nothing there on 2k. ;)

Guess I should have been more clear in my choice of wording though, oh well. :)





As for the the choice of linux flavor, Ubuntu is probably the best/easiest to start out with,
but if you want to install maya, then maya installer comes as a rpm,
which is a redhat package, you could copy the packages from the disc
(or if downloading from ADSK site then no disc, I guess) to the hdd,
and convert to deb with app named alien(command line only though, AFAIK.
wwswimming
11-15-2009, 12:19 PM
OK, thanks a lot for the help, downloaded Ubuntu last night, 600 MB+
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