+ 1 for Stephen Blair, AD should bring him for the remainder 2 years of
Soft, he goes out of his way to help people, He is what support is all
about.
I can't named the number of times he came to the rescue.
Leoung
On 31/03/2014 4:58 PM, Robert Kjettrup wrote:
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] <mailto:[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 <http://www.baloom.co>
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On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Robert Kjettrup <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
