Virtual Architect Ultimate Home Design with Landscaping and Decks

In the description, it says this is compatible to Windows 11, and I bought it for my husbands birthday. When he got it, he tried to install it, and when it wasnt working, he looked on the box, and it says it was compatible with 7, 8, 10 and Vista. Super disappointing! Listing description needs to be updated.

I invested a lot of time with this software, so returning it was a painful decision. The following outlines my experience:

I am furious at myself. I spent two weeks researching DIY design software for a kitchen and living room remodel we are doing. I bought this and it is terrible. ZERO customer service or support. Very limited training. I installed on my desktop, then tried to put it on my laptop it would not allow. Just dont...

I bought this from Amazon, and it came with the option of loading from a CD or download. Dont have a CD on my PC, so I downloaded the program. The license key did not work, so I returned the product. Still havent seen a refund. I bought the same product from Nova software, at at least it runs. However it crashes all the time. So Ive paid twice and have a worthless piece of...

I was able to frame out my home and add some elements like electrical outlets but it crashes consistently when I right-click on an element and click properties. Fortunately I can export and do a lot of stuff in PS

apparently it was what he needed -

Too cumbersome for what I needed

I suspect this software actually has quite a few features, but good luck figuring out how to use them. This is no documentation and the online help is very limited. It doesnt even have a standard design for a gable roof. There are 40 varieties of hip roofs though. It looks like you can place a hip roof and maybe change it to gable afterwards, but any small change will can give you totally wild roof lines that are probably impossible to build. Also good luck creating a 1 1/2 story type design.

It didn’t do everything I wanted. Interior choices were set to a few items. Went with Chief Architect instead. If your just doing something simple like a garage this works. Also was advertised as 2017 but software was 2008 and wanting vista. Had to trick system into thinking I was on a window 7 machine. Doesn’t play well with windows 10

Overall, a good program. It seems a bit light for designs using attic trusses but was able to work around a solution by assuming that the attic truss was a separate building. It may be that I have not yet mastered all of its capabilities.