Tethered and vista

[Bob B]

I use my Canon XSi live-view tethered to my laptop. I want to buy a replacement for my 5 year old desktop. Since my home basics 32-vista works tethered I want to stay with 32 since 64 may not work. I need to know if vista 32 will work tethered to a camera having a EM64T 64-bit computing instruction set, . I am not all that knowledgeable aboutcomputers.
Here is the information: Intel Pentium E2220 dual-core processor, 65nm technology process, contents, LGA775 interface 2.4 GHz, even higher than the Pentium E2180 400MHz, The frequency for 200MHz 800MHz, front, bus to increase 12x, 1MB have Shared a level 2 cache, Support MMX, SSE SSE2, multimedia, SSE3 SSSE3, instructions, have EM64T 64-bit computing instruction set, EIST energy-saving technology
Thanks

[fastpitch17]

Bob,

From all the playing I have done with Vista 64bit and tethered shooting, I suggest your first step is to go to Canons Site and check their download section for your camera under the different operating systems. If there is a drive available for your camera then it should operate just fine.

If you are using Vista 32 on your Desk top you shouldn't have a problem using Vista 32 on a Laptop. The problems I have run into are drivers for the 64bit systems. They are just not available for many cameras. I went to installing a Virtual System with XP in order to shoot tethered on my 64 bit system. Way to much software and space usage if you can avoid it.

[Bob B]

Thanks for replying. Canon has no driver for Vista 64bit. I don't mind using Vista 32bit. The million dollar question is does the 64bit architecture on the processor create problems with tethered shooting while using Vista 32bit?

[brian.austin]

Originally Posted by Bob B

Thanks for replying. Canon has no driver for Vista 64bit. I don't mind using Vista 32bit. The million dollar question is does the 64bit architecture on the processor create problems with tethered shooting while using Vista 32bit?

The actual restrictive component is the OS, not the physical architecture underneath. A 32-bit driver will work with a 32-bit operating system, like Vista 32-bit, just fine, even if the architecture is 64-bit capable.

A 32-bit kernel-mode driver will NOT work on a 64-bit operating system, however. The reason for it has to do with backward compatibility and Microsoft's very early decision to allow hardware manufacturers direct access to the OS kernel rather than API's like Apple.

You should be fine shooting tethered with Canon's 32-bit driver on Vista Home 32-bit.

[Pinkeltje]

Get a Mac and you can run XP, Vista, OSX, Win7, and Linux – natively or in a virtual machine – as you please, Bob. Be it 32-bit or 64-bit.

Want to know if your tethered setup will work in 64-bit? Test it now, on your present machine: download Win7 (64; http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...-download.aspx; free for a year) and VirtualBox (VirtualBox; free), then install that Win7 in VirtualBox, and run your tethered setup on it. If it works it works...!

[Bob B]

Originally Posted by brian.austin

The actual restrictive component is the OS, not the physical architecture underneath. A 32-bit driver will work with a 32-bit operating system, like Vista 32-bit, just fine, even if the architecture is 64-bit capable.

A 32-bit kernel-mode driver will NOT work on a 64-bit operating system, however. The reason for it has to do with backward compatibility and Microsoft's very early decision to allow hardware manufacturers direct access to the OS kernel rather than API's like Apple.

You should be fine shooting tethered with Canon's 32-bit driver on Vista Home 32-bit.

Originally Posted by Pinkeltje

Get a Mac and you can run XP, Vista, OSX, Win7, and Linux – natively or in a virtual machine – as you please, Bob. Be it 32-bit or 64-bit.

Want to know if your tethered setup will work in 64-bit? Test it now, on your present machine: download Win7 (64; http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...-download.aspx; free for a year) and VirtualBox (VirtualBox; free), then install that Win7 in VirtualBox, and run your tethered setup on it. If it works it works...!

Thanks for the feedback.