Re: Re: NVTDMx64
  By: Thumper to Rob Swindell on Thu Mar 30 2023 03:50 pm

 >  >   Re: Re: NVTDMx64
 >  >   By: Thumper to Rob Swindell on Thu Mar 30 2023 10:23 am
 >
 >  >  > -=> Rob Swindell wrote to Thumper <=-
 >
 >  >  >  RS>   Re: NVTDMx64
 >  >  >  RS>   By: Thumper to All on Wed Mar 29 2023 03:35 pm
 >
 >  >  >  > Hello All,
 >
 >  >  >  > Hopefully this is the right area to ask about this but I've been
 >  >  >  > trying to figure out how to install NVTDMx64 and not getting too
 >  >  >  > far. I've seen it mentioned a few times in this echo so thought I'd
 >  >  >  > ask. I can't seem to find any precompiled versions.... Any ideas or
 >  >  >  > help is appreciated.
 >
 >  >  >  RS> You looked at http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html ?
 >
 >  >  >  RS> It has the download links right on there. You probably want the
 >  >  >  RS> CCPU version. --
 >
 >  >  >  Got it downloaded and run install bat only to get message that I'm
 >  >  > trying to install on a 32 bit system. My system and Windows is a 64
 >  >  > bit system.... Windows 11 Pro 64 bit and AMD Ryzen 5 4600G. System
 >  >  > type is listed as x64-based PC.....
 >
 >  > Probably Windows lying to the application for some "compatibilty mode" or
 >  > something. I haven't run into that problem myself, but seems you could
 >  > find someone that has (and the solution), like in the project's github
 >  > issues.

 > I posted on github and got the answer right away. Got it to install but
 > haven't got to try anything yet. Basically I had to delete this paragraph in
 > install.bat:
 >
 > echo ---------------------------------------------
 > echo Checking machine, please wait...
 > echo ---------------------------------------------
 > reg query HKLM\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0 | Find /i
 > "x86" >nul

Looks like that problem's been fixed upstream too (thanks to your report):
https://github.com/leecher1337/ntvdmx64/commit/715bf0c5988caace64a661c4d1e61059
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