Computers running 64-bit versions of Windows generally have more resources such as processing power and memory, than their 32-bit predecessors. Also, 64-bit applications can access more memory than 32-bit applications (up to 18.4 million Petabytes). Therefore, if your scenarios include large files and/or working with large data sets and your computer is running 64-bit version of Windows, 64-bit is the right choice when:
You're using add-ins with Outlook, Excel, or other Office apps. While 32-bit applications can work with add-ins, they can use up a system's available virtual address space. With 64-bit apps, you have up to 128 TB of virtual address space which the app and any add-ins running the same process can share. With 32-bit apps, you might get as little as 2 GB of virtual address space which in many cases isn't enough and can cause the app to stop responding or crash.
You have 32-bit MAPI applications for Outlook. With a growing number of 64-bit Outlookcustomers, rebuilding 32-bit MAPI applications, add-ins, or macros for 64-bit Outlook is the recommended option, but if needed you can continue to run them with 32-bit Outlook only, as well. To learn about preparing Outlook applications for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, see Building MAPI Applications on 32-Bit and 64-Bit Platforms and the Outlook MAPI Reference.
Unfortunately, that link will only download the msi installer. Which seems will only install the version it thinks is appropriate for your architecture. I am trying to do something a bit non-standard to attempt to get report builder to work with the postgres odbc drivers. The constraints in my setup:
- Running Windows 11 ARM
- Postgres ODBC driver for amd64 bit will not install and will not work. However, the 32 bit driver does (x86).
- Using the 32 bit version of power bi desktop I was able to get it connected through the 32 bit odbc drivers.
So, that led me down the path of hoping that microsoft had a 32-bit version of Report Builder such that I can do the same thing.
Everything else about Report Builder on ARM seems fine, but it looks like lower level drivers are hit and miss.
Is there a way to force the MSI installer to use the 32 bit version? (I have no idea how they work and some internet searching suggests that they often contain multiple architectures of a particular software)
Or if there are other people running report builder on Windows 11 ARM with a postgres odbc connection, any suggestions.
I am using Power BI 32 bit version as the whole team using Power BI are having Microsoft Office 32 bit. I have created a report which has a few data and I am performing in DAX a UNION function which has SELECTCOLUMN functions in it. This seems to take a lot of RAM as when I am trying to open the Power BI file it returns an error message " Exception of type "System.OutOfMemoryException" was thrown".
I'd like to suggest you to use 64 bit version, it allow you to use more memory resource on power bi desktop.(32bit applications has 2G memory limit: Memory Limits for Windows and Windows Server Releases)
Many thanks for your support, I understand that the 64 bit version is the ideal solution. However, as I mentioned it is not possible to replace Office 32 bit to 64 bit for all Power BI potential users for multiple reasons and I am trying to thing ways to resolve this issue with other ways. Is there anything else you can suggest (i.e. ways to minimize report specs etc.)?
Many thanks for your suggestions, they useful to start thinking about new ways to resolve my issue. Unfortunately in my client's laptop I need to download Access Database Engine in order to refresh Power BI reports from my excel data. When I go to download Access Database for 64 bit I have a conflict with Microsoft Office as I get error message that I cannot download Access Database for 64 bit while having Office 32 bit. This issue gives me no option than to go for Power BI 32 bit version with which I am having the issue with System out of memory exception. Please note that I do not have the option to use Office 64 bit for multiple reasons.
About using Power Query to append my tables I am afraid I cannot use this as I am having some essential DAX calculated fields in my tables which dissapear when I go to Query editor. For that reason I am using the functions UNION and SELECTCOLUMNS in DAX.
I'd like to run it on my PC with windows 7 64bit. If I buy a firewire PCI card for my PC will I be able to run the scanner with the latest Flex color software? Will the firewire adaptor work on windows?
You cant run it under Windows 7. It is supported only for Windows XP. It is pain in the ass to get it work with Scsi card. Your easiest and best solution is to get powermac with 8.5 OS, 9 OS or X OS with scsi card. It is slow but it works. It will never be supported for newer versions. Silverfast and Vuescan doesn't support Imacon scanners.
I saw this posting and wanted to place some instructions on the web for getting an Imacon Flextight Precision II (SCSI) scanner to work on two different laptops with a number of different configurations. The first laptop is a Lenovo T61 running Windows 7 32 bit. The second laptop is a MacBook Pro with Retina Display (model year 2012) running Windows 7 64 bit via BootCamp. (Note: You can't get the scanner to run on Mac OS X Lion 10.8 due to the lack of support for the PowerPC software that used to run older Imacon scanners on Macs.)
This is the easiest setup by far. Connect the scanner via SCSI cable to the Adaptec 1480B UltraSCSI PCMCIA card. Plug the card into the computer's PCMCIA slot. Turn on the scanner. Turn on the computer (booting into Windows 7 32 bit).
I set this up ages ago so don't remember all the details, but Windows 7 32 bit should have no problem recognizing the Adaptec 1480B UltraSCSI PCMCIA card. I believe you then just need to load drivers for the Imacon scanner. I'll go into this in more detail for the MacBook Pro configuration below, but basically you need to use the Windows Device Manager (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Device Manager) to load the driver listed as "Imacon P2/DTP Scanner SCSI Loader for SCSI" as found in the "WinXP' folder of the "INF" folder of the FlexColor application in Windows Explorer.
This configuration gets trickier. Basically you're converting SCSI to FireWire. One of the big hurdles lies in recognizing that Windows 7 "updated" its handling of FireWire, so you need to roll back to a legacy version of the 1394 FireWire driver.
To begin, insert the IEEE 1394 FireWire PCMCIA Card into the PCMCIA slot. Windows 7 32 bit should recognize it just fine, but now you need to roll back the driver. To do so, go to the Windows Device Manager (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Device Manager) and look for the "IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers" node in the device tree on the right hand pane. Then...
Windows 7 32 bit should see the scanner. Now you'll need to load the right driver. Go to the Windows Device Manager (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Device Manager). The Imacon scanner should be shown, possibly as an "Unknown Device". Right click on the scanner and select "Update driver software ..." Next, select "Browse my computer for driver software". Choose the option "Search for driver software in this location:". Hit the Browse button and go to the FlexColor "INF" folder (typically ...\Program Files\Hasselblad\FlexColor English v4.0.3\INF). In the INF folder should be a "WinXP" folder. Select the "IMACON.INF" file in the "WinXP" folder. Next, you'll be presented with a list of drivers to choose from. For the FlexTight Precision II, select "Imacon FlexTight Precision II Scanner for SCSI".
This was the most complicated setup to get working, but I wanted to take advantage of the retina display for use with the scanner. There are a number of big hurdles here. First you'll be converting SCSI to FireWire to Thunderbolt. As noted under CONFIGURATION 2, one of the big problems lies in recognizing that Windows 7 "updated" its handling of FireWire, so you need to roll back to a legacy version of the 1394 FireWire driver.
To do so, go to the FlexColor "INF" folder (typically ...\Program Files(x86)\Hasselblad\FlexColor English v4.0.3\INF). Inside that folder, open the "WinXP" folder. Double-click on the file "IMACON.INF". It should open in Notepad. Look for the following lines:
2) The next trick involves rolling back the IEEE 1394 FireWire drivers that will run the OrangeMicro Converter. The problem is that Window 7 "updated" its handling of FireWire, so you have to undo this.
I found this to be problematic. If I had the whole adapter chain set up from scanner to computer, my MacBook Pro wouldn't boot into Window 7 64 bit. It would just hang. So to get this step to work, set up the chain of adapters as follows (leaving out the Granite Digital adapter):
Go to the Device Manager (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Device Manager) and look under "IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers" (if the OrangeMicro Converter is working, this should show up).
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