Recommended hardware configuration for CVF 6.6

[emreka82]

Hello,

Years ago my thesis supervisor has bought this program (CVF 6.6b) and now he wants me to continue their project as my doctoral project. I am familiar with programming but I haven't used Compaq Visual Fortran before...Anyway, I get used to work with it an since it does not compile in Windows 7 I am working on Windows XP in Virtual PC but it is very slow to run and compile. Now I want to buy a new computer and that is what I am asking...What must be the most important part of the configuration... RAM ? processor ? etc... Can you give me the best configuration that I have to get ? By the way, I am also using TecPlot for post processing, so these two programs must work simultaneously for 3D graphics. Thanks for your attention.

Emre Kara
Mechanical Engineer, MSc

[Ademiloye_A_]

netphilou31 wrote:
Hi,

I did not noticed the problem before because of the following reason. Since CVF version 5 (I think that it was Digital Visual Fortran at that time), I was using the WinTabs addin with VisualStudio (addin that add tabs feature to the IDE, very helpful). However I noticed that with version 6 it crashed the application. I have been able to look at the addin code thanks to the original developer and found that it was expected to work also with MSDEV.exe. Thus, I fixed the problem by simply making a copy of "DFDEV.exe" and renaming it "MSDEV.exe" (in the same directory as he original file) and since I worked with MSDEV instead of DFDEV !. I went a little bit further by changing all the references to DEFEV.exe in the registry to MSDEV.exe but I don't think that it is necessary to go so far.I understand that it is a little bit complicated but it works !

Best Regards,

Worked for me... Thanks