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#65540 by Stuart Jackson
Sun Dec 21, 2014 5:41 pm
Update on 8.1

Have been running on 8.1 for about a month now, so far so good. No problems just took a lot of time making sure everything was updated, including hardware drivers.

Did a Recovery Disk install to make sure I was staring with a "clean" copy of Windows 8. Ran all those updates then moved on to upgrading to 8.1 followed by more updates and patches.

Due to a client request I also tried an install of DataCAD v11 and found the Win7 hardlock workaround didn't get things working. As a last ditch effort I found the new owners of the "Aladdin" hardlock, SafeNet Inc. had an updated driver for 8.1. This combined with the Win7 workaround did the trick, panicky client aside I much prefer working in the newest version of DataCAD.

Now if the 3Dconnexion Space Mouse would support a driver for DataCAD ...

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