Yeah Stephen Blair is awesome!
2014-03-31 23:06 GMT+02:00 Leoung O'Young <[email protected]>: > + 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]>: > >> 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 >> >> > >
