Citect V7.40 SP1 Installation on Win 10

[Anonymous user]

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone has tried installing Vijeo Citect V7.40 SP1 on Win 10?

On SE website, it is not clearly mentioned if Win 10 is supported. 

I could install V7.40 and SP1 on Win 10 without any issues but when trying to open Citect Explorer, I am getting an error. Please refer to the attached screenshot.

Thank you!

[Stevey]

Hi

Looking on the AVEVA support site, it looks as though this version Citect Scada is not supported on Win 10.

OS Environment Compatibility for V7.40 SP1 is 

Windows 7 SP1 Professional (x64, x86)
Windows 8 Enterprise (x64, x86)
Windows Server 2008 SP2 Enterprise (x64, x86)
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise
Windows Server 2012 Standard

Is there a reason why you need this specific version Of Citect Scada ?

There are usually many benefits to upgrading to a later version.

[RobertSanders]

Its worth double checking the Citect.ini file, 

In the section [CtEdit] ensure all the paths are correct, pay particular attention to

• Bin:  folder which should point to the Citect installation folder location, it has Citect32.exe   
• User: which has all the Citect projects, see the attached screenshot  

The following is a example INI setting for Citect SCADA 2018, 

[CtEdit]
Bin = C:\Program Files (x86)\Schneider Electric\Citect SCADA 2018\Bin
Config =C:\ProgramData\Schneider Electric\Citect SCADA 2018\Config
Data =C:\ProgramData\Schneider Electric\Citect SCADA 2018\Data
Logs =C:\ProgramData\Schneider Electric\Citect SCADA 2018\Logs
User =C:\ProgramData\Schneider Electric\Citect SCADA 2018\User

Regards

Rob

[RobertSanders]

Also check the Master.dbf, which is found in the User location,  it contains the project name and project location, ensure that the folder locations for each project are correct. 

I have attached an example screenshot. NOTE do not change the column widths 

Regards

Rob

[Anonymous user]

Hi Stevey,

Thanks for your reply. One of my clients is using citect v7.40 SP1 on Win 7 and now Microsoft has stopped supporting this version of OS. Thus I was wondering if we could install the same version of Citect on Win 10 instead of upgrading their Citect to the latest version. 

Cheers!

Singh

[Stevey]

Hi Singh

OK, I understand.  It's not officially supported and so there's no guarantees that this combination would perform correctly.

Upgrading to the latest version should be pretty easy as there has been a lot of work put in to improving the upgrade process.  Obviously if the system isn't in a support contract then there would be a cost for the license upgrade.

For more information, you can reference the Citect 2018 – Upgrading to Citect SCADA 2018 PDF, which shows that you can go directly from 7.40 SP1 to 2018. Should be applicable for 2018 R2 as well.

Hope this helps

Stevey

[Anonymous user]

No worries, Thanks Rob.

Cheers!

[ThomasLaland]

Hello, 
Sharing my experiences in this topic. 
I had a project where we had to move the Citect 7.40 Application to a new Windows 10 Server. Because the Software License is so expensive for the upgrade, the customer requested using 7.40. 

However, I managed to set up Citect 7.40 on Windows 10. It has been running with no problems for a year. 

[Jas000]

Hi Thomas,

Could you please share how you made it? Thanks.