thanks all for the comments. Just a small update on my progress on this.
Stephen Blair mailed me with some help, and as always he is the best support AD ever had for Softimage even when he is not working for them :-) My problem was that the SPM installer didnt install correctly and windows 8 was blocking the install of the USD dongle driver. Forcing to run the installer as administrator (even when my user is set up as a admin already) made the driver to install correctly, and after this the License manager did see the USB dongle and i got it to work with the key file i already had. Then opening Softimage i got contstant crashes just when the UI had loaded, every single time. Setting Softimage to always run as administrator also fixed this, so now im up and running, hopefully without too many unknown issues that i will discover along the way. ... now i just wish i had a newer version with more ICE goodies.... but that will never happen now :-/ - Robert 2014-03-28 23:38 GMT+01:00 Cristiano Policarpo < [email protected]>: > We have XSI 7 running on Linux and Windows 7 with dongle license. In > windows 7 the dongle is recognized without any driver installation. I > believe you need to put your license file in SPM folder. > > Best, > Cristiano > > Cristiano Policarpo > BaloOm Animation Studios > www.baloom.co > --- > PoustEx - CG Animated Short Film > www.poustex.com > > On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Robert Kjettrup <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > I know i am a bit behind on my softimage license, v7.0.1, and from today i > even cant upgrade it anymore... well havnt been able to for a long time :-( > > My more pressing problem though is i want to keep using this fine version, > but im moving to a new workstation running windows 8.1, and im having > trouble to get my USB ibutton dongle to be seen by the license manager. > > I have installed the 64bit drivers from here: > > http://www.maximintegrated.com/products/ibutton/software/tmex/download_drivers.cfm > but the license manager just wont see the dongle. > > I can see on my former workstation that it is also a totally different USB > device driver that is installed on that, so maybe it is just the wrong > driver i have installed. > > so... Does any of you here on the list have the driver that was supplied > by Avid for the dongle, i just cant find it in between all my softimage > installer files. > > ...or is there some issues with softimage v7 and windows 8? > > I really dont hope i have to give up this nice software just now, although > i only have an aging version, it is still nicer and more fun to use than > most other 3d apps. > > > Robert > >
