Hello Michael

As I understand it LAS leaves the memory handling to Windows so if you 
are using 64 bit then it should allow you to address more than the 4GB 
limit on 32 bit systems. I know Leica people watch this list so can any 
of them clear this up as its quite a hassle to get it working on 64 bit xp.

Cheers

Dave

Michael Weber wrote:
> Hey Dave,
>
> interesting solution, thanks. But regarding the memory handling, the 
> LAS-AF program is still not able to handle more than 2 GB even on x64 
> XP since it remains a 32 bit program, or am I missing something?
>
> Michael
>
>
> David Kelly wrote:
>> Hello Aryeh
>>
>> It is possible to run LAS on 64bit XP but its not easy. When 
>> installing you run the program from the link below. This spoofs LAS 
>> into thinking its running on a 32 bit system. The problem is that 
>> everytime you upgrade your confocal software you need to upgrade your 
>> workstation software and this spoofing doesn't always work. So if you 
>> have the time and the inclination you can do it but unless you are 
>> dealing with very big image stacks and need the extra memory I 
>> wouldn't bother
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bd02c19c-1250-433c-8c1b-2619bd93b3a2&displaylang=en 
>>
>>
>> When this doesn't work there are other utilities that also spoof XP 
>> version numbers with varying degrees of success
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> Aryeh Weiss wrote:
>>> I am wondering if anyone on list has run a *second* copy of Leica 
>>> LAF (not to acquire from the confocal, but an offline copy) on 64 
>>> bit Windows? It was my understanding that 32 bit software runs under 
>>> the 64 bit version, but one never knows.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> --aryeh
>

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