Roland Edirol UR-80 on Windows 7 post...

arjaydavis
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Since: May 16, 2011

May 16, 2011 12:20 pm

The Vista driver update from the Roland website for the UR80 WILL work fine for Windows 7 32bit because I have installed this successfully myself on my Windows 7 Home 32 bit PC. So this driver appears to be for 32bit Windows Vista/Windows 7 only. I could not get it to install on 64 bit Windows 7 Professional though I would expect it to work with 32bit Windows 7 Professional.

So if you can I suggest backing up all your work and re-installing Windows 7 32bit over your existing Windows 7 install. Then install the Vista driver. The disadvantage is that 32bit Windows 7 will not utlilise any extra RAM beyond 2 or 3G as 64bit would.

The other option is to buy another full licensed copy of Windows 7 32bit, partition your hard drive and install this copy to that partition and use the UR80 with driver installed when you boot into that. This obviously costs money. And for the cost you could buy a newer device that is both 32 and 64 bit compatible. By the way you cannot run 32bit and 64bit installs made from one Windows licensed CD/DVD - you have to buy a separate addition copy, due to terms of the license. A single license allows running either 32 bit mode or 64 bit mode, but not both.

Furthermore from this example. it would therefore appear that the XP compatibility mode does not support installation of 32bit drivers on a Windows 7 64 bit install, the XP compatibility mode appears to only support programs dependent on the XP environment. Drivers would therefore appear to be more global, and more closely tied to the host operating system, i.e. the 64 bit Windows 7 operating system that is actually running the Windows XP compatibility mode. So the compatibility mode only goes as far as supporting programs, it seems.