alice-teacher Running Alice on older PCs

Eric Skogen eskogen at hbcguam.net
Tue Nov 15 19:56:34 EST 2011


Make sure you have the latest drivers for the video card.  

The requirements aren't much, so I would be surprised if even a six year old onboard video really couldn't handle it.

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From: alice-teachers-bounces+eskogen=hbcguam.net at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+eskogen=hbcguam.net at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Don Slater
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:50 AM
To: Alice educators
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Running Alice on older PCs

Did you try the Slow But Steady version of Alice that is part of the Windows download?

Later,
Don Slater

On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Fisher, Edward S. wrote:

> Our environment is 6 year old Dell PC's running XP.  The Alice 2.2 tutorials fail with errors stating video card is not able to handle things and it will try to use software rendering.  This too fails.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
> Edward S. Fisher
> Teacher of Mathematics and Computer Science Webmaster 
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