I will soon be getting a new computer with Win 7 and will have to move Bryce to it from scratch. Does anyone who have Bryce on Win 7 have any advice on what to do to make the move painless? I have Bryce 5.5, 6 7.0 and 7.1

Thanks!!!

thunderstone..you scared the wits out of me with that subject line! :-p lol.. :-P just kidding. 

i had to switch to win 7 when i got my new laptop..it isn't a probs.just don't forget to save your content files..obps, and mats etc. I've got 7.0 and 7.1..or whatever is the latest version of bryce.

have fun... 

cheers

Rosie is right. If you have the originals of the Bryce install programs or disks, just save (zip) everything in your "presets" folders like materials, obj's, skies, and hdri files somewhere else like an exterior drive or on a different part of the HDD in your current computer, I even save my BR7 scene files I have created.

When you re-install Bryce on your new machine, just unzip those files and put them in the presets folder that Bryce creates and you're good to go - it's a little time consuming (in my case, the objects alone are about 47 gigs), but it's a simple process.

If you're going with a whole new computer and a new HDD, if you have the room and the ability to hook up an exterior drive to it, you can just leave everything on the disk the programs are on and hook the disk up to the new computer temporarily and just copy - cut and paste, the old files over to the new drive, which is what I did.

Hope that helps.

Bob

What those folks said will work fine.. ...

Anything special I should be aware of when working with Bryce under Win 7?

jusr have fun....

:lol: Good luck with that! I'm a die-hard windoze xp user. Personaly, I'd kill win7 and install XP.

Bryster, Me too... Unfortunately the new computer comes pre-installed with win 7 :sad:

Old computer sound died very quietly (silently) onboard motherboard. Never ever get a motherboard from ASUS... They really are craps! :cursing:  Get anything but an ASUS motherboard. Raid went belly up along with the CMOS at one time... Had to install a new battery. My computer guy's own computer gave him grief and he switched to another motherboard. Sold the ASUS motherboard that they sent him on e-bay.

Fran, have you or anyone ever used one of those USB to USB cross-over cables.  I understand they are relatively inexpensive.  That would cut out having to load from 'puter 1 to HD then from HD to 'puter 2.

You know... in the old days of DOS, one would use a null modem or serial cable to link up two computers to have like a primitive network. Never really thought of doing it with the USB port... Interesting .... I'll take it up with my computer guy....

Thanks for the tip!

Yup just pull your contents folder out and when you install new Bryce just replace it with your old one and you'll be golden:-)

What I want to know is: How does Bryce run under Win 7? Are there any problems running Bryce in Win 7?

You might be able to pull the HDD from your old pc and use it as a slave in your new one. I have 3 drives in mine plus an external TB drive. Works just fine. Makes transfers very easy.

thunderstone..not really..so far.. haven't found any probs with that.. 

Ummm... Bryster, I spoke with my computer guy... To do what you suggest is only possible if it was a straight win xp... Not possible with win 7... or win xp ---> win 7 migration.

Ummm... Bryster, I spoke with my computer guy... To do what you suggest is only possible if it was a straight win xp... Not possible with win 7... or win xp ---> win 7 migration.

Puzzled.  I thought the new machine would recognize the drive no matter what operating system and the data files would be compatible... hmmm*

What willie said.

Everything as far as I know is fine on the win 7 machines, there should be no difference in file formats. We had a prob with legacy files during testing but those were resolved, I can open Bryce 4 and up files with no problems.( on the mac side) but again as far as I know the dev team on the win 7 side have no more problems either.

It shouldn't matter what platform (OS) you are using. Your old drive will be recognised as E while you CD will be D and your C stays as it is.

You're not using your old XP drive to boot your new PC from, just slaving it to the system.

ok... I'll try to remember that... Will ask my tech guy to put it in.

I'd make sure you can re-install Bryce5.5 and Bryce 6 as well as Bryce 7.1 - I don't really think there's a whole lot of point in keeping Bryce7.0 though - anyone can correct me if that's wrong.

I have my old 1 & 1/2 terrabyte drive that used to be in my XP machine, now running as my F drive in this Win7 machine, no probs at all (so far).

If you are saving your presets make sure you save your Textures.brt - if like me you make your own texture presets.

I always save the scene files too as the ones that came with Bryce 5 are not the same as those that came with Bryce 7 (ditto B6)

I agree with everything that has been said.

I'd also like to add, that now I'm seeing laptops come my way, with the owner requesting that I blow away Windows 7 and install XP, and I cant even if I wanted to.

Newer systems have hardware that is not supported in XP and the manufacturers are not releasing drivers for XP to support the new hardware.

Windows 7 is not that bad.

Newer systems have hardware that is not supported in XP and the manufacturers are not releasing drivers for XP to support the new hardware.

Just another example of users being forced to buy into new technology.

I build my own systems, except for notebooks of course.