# 64bit Win8/10

**URL:** <https://community.inventables.com/t/64bit-win8-10/22129>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [April 5, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/64bit-win8-10/22129 "2016-04-05T18:45:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AdamFilipowicz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/adamfilipowicz/32/67601_2.png) [@AdamFilipowicz](https://community.inventables.com/u/AdamFilipowicz)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/64bit-win8-10/22129/1 "2016-04-05T18:45:55Z")

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I called inventables support and they suggested I use a 64bt Machine with Windows8/10  
I have been trying to run my xcarve on a 32bit windows vista based machine. but its been a total pain in the butt.

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**Author:** ![BradT](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/bradt/32/15411_2.png) [@BradT](https://community.inventables.com/u/BradT)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/64bit-win8-10/22129/2 "2016-04-05T18:58:02Z")

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If you are using Easel, check the downloads section of Easel, and downgrade your driver to .2.2 or lower. I had to do that to get it working on Vista.

Alternately, Ultimate Gcode sender will work on Vista.

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**Author:** ![AdamFilipowicz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/adamfilipowicz/32/67601_2.png) [@AdamFilipowicz](https://community.inventables.com/u/AdamFilipowicz)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/64bit-win8-10/22129/3 "2016-04-05T18:58:47Z")

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yes i installed 2.2 but it still only detects the port/xcarve 10% of the time.

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**Author:** ![Earwigger](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/earwigger/32/85008_2.png) [@Earwigger](https://community.inventables.com/u/Earwigger)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/64bit-win8-10/22129/4 "2016-04-07T01:23:19Z")

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I could never get anything to work with Vista. Did you know that windows 7 works 10 times better than vista - even on xp machines that struggled to use vista? Windows 7 performs better than XP on XP machines. It really should be your minimum acceptable operating system on Windows.

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**Author:** ![AdamFilipowicz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/adamfilipowicz/32/67601_2.png) [@AdamFilipowicz](https://community.inventables.com/u/AdamFilipowicz)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/64bit-win8-10/22129/5 "2016-04-15T04:48:40Z")

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I upgraded to a windows 8 64bit machine and the problems are gone