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Old 06-04-2009, 10:57 AM   #20
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So can the Aquarium be run with Compatibility Layer turned off? I thought Marine Aquarium 3 worked relatively ok on Vista without resorting to any backwards compatibility modes?


Jim,

It's an attempt to allow XP programs which are not Vista-aware to run the 'old-fashioned way' but I have not heard that it runs particularly well. They are eliminating this half-baked 'compatibility layer' in Windows 7 and moving to a full Windows XP Virtual Machine. Literally Windows XP boots up inside a window and you can run your programs inside a 'real' XP environment which is insulated from Windows 7. It should run old programs much better.

Unfortunately, for reasons that no-one can figure out, Microsoft built Windows 7's virtual machine functionality in such a way that it will only work on premium AMD and Intel processors. All those folks who have bought the less expensive, but otherwise powerful Intel and AMD processors over the last few years will be out-of-luck. Strange since there are already excellent virtual machines that don't require these special processors.
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