Can 2001 and Creo co-exist?

[cstarnes]

Can Creo be installed on a Win 7 machine that is still running Pro/E 2001 with a local license server, and have the two happily coexist?

The license file is for Creo 2 and will also run 2001, so that shouldn't be an issue. I'm mainly concerned about possible conflicting registry entries and common environment variables or folders.

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

I would not expect any conflicts between ProE 2001 and Creo 2.0. I am not sure whether ProE 2001 will cooperate with graphic card properly.

MH

[cstarnes]

Not sure what you mean by "whether ProE 2001 will cooperate with graphic card properly".

ProE 2001 is already running on the PC in question. I just want to install and run Creo alongside it (one at a time of course).

[BenLoosli]

The key to making this work is installing Creo2 into a new top  level directory structure.

Being a Win7 machine, the graphics card should have up-to-date drivers that will work with Creo2. Since you have no issues with Pro/E 2001 running, you should be good.

[davehaigh]

Creo 3 is a different matter. A card that works on Creo 2, may not work with Creo 3 because of changes in the software. One of our light users had a Dell that had a AMD Radeon HD 6450, that worked fine with Creo 2. In Creo 3 it will not cut away the front part of a cross section. We had to change the graphics back to win32_gdi to solve the problem.

[cstarnes]

Wow. I wouldn't expect graphics cards to be an issue at all these days.

[bbrejcha]

Dude.  Talk you customer using 2001 to upgrade LOL

Bart Brejcaha

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