Any problems running Navision 4.0 on an AMD Athlon 64?

leegjonescdp

I am proposing we buy notebook PCs running the AMD Athlon 64-bit processor and XP Pro. My boss, who has longer Navision experience, says that there were problems running Navision on non-Intel processors in the past. Is this still true?
Can anyone confirm the problems or is anyone using the Athlon that can provide a reference as to its suitability for running Navision 4.0 and the VPC for demos?
Thanks in advance for any help.

kine

I never hear about problems on AMD processors. I am using AMD without problems... and all our customers too...

Waldo

same conclusions here ... .

recall

I am using Navision with native DB and SQL-Server on AMD 64 and WinXP Prof.
No Problems !
Navision does not access any hardware-specific commands or assembler (*lol*). Nav 3.7 even runs on a win32 emulation in linux (We tried this out)!

If anyone had problems with AMD don't you think that IBM and Microsoft would have used that ?
And I googled for the problem. Nothing!

leegjonescdp

Thanks to all who responded. Those were the kinds of backup I needed to go forward - I didn't expect any problems, but absolutely had to ask to make sure there were no surprises later.
Thanks again.

[Deleted User]

recall wrote:

Nav 3.7 even runs on a win32 emulation in linux (We tried this out)!

A bit off topic, I'd like to hear more about that. What do you mean by win32 emulation? VMWare (that works, but for me it's pointless, you still need a license, I rather dual boot), Wine or something else?
I spent quite some time trying to run Navi (3.6 and 4.0) in Wine, with no luck. If you managed to run it under wine, please tell us how you did it, what needs to be done, what version, how stable it is...

Also, to the topic. Navi runs just fine with amd64 (wouldn't know about 64-bit Windows, though), I think the fears from the era of Cyrix and K-6 processors are finally gone. AMDs are nowdays in many acpects better processors that those of Intel.

Regards,
Marko

recall

hmmm.... sorry maybe I told you the wrong thing. I didn't mean something like wine, but I meant a dual-boot like (sry about my english :roll: ) starting win in lunix. We did it with redhat and used cross-access. It's a system where windows REALLY boots after linux has booted, but both OS' can share all the memory and CPU-time. So you can switch between them.

Hmmm... not really clear, or ?

Hope this helps a bit

It would be interesting if Navision starts somehow in wine

Waldo

Well, I tried it with the latest version of wine ... but still no luck.

no reference though, because I'm only a hobby-ist in Linux (Fedora Core 4).

[Deleted User]

I'm also a hobb-ist in Linux, but if Navision was stable in wine then, I guess, I'd be a professional.

recall

so we have to wait until .NET comes for Navision.
I hope it will run under MONO