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We just installed an ran FlexiPro 8.1 on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit today, no problem. You do have to download the sentinel drivers from their website instead of directly off the CD.

There are a lot of great online backup tools out there, one of the biggest names being Carbonite. I set up storage for another company recently which only required about 2 GB of data to be stored off-site (accounting files) and was able to install eDrive on their Windows Home Server computer...

While external hard drives offer a great tool for backups, I would not recommend using them as your one and only location for storing data. External drives are quite notorious for failures due to overheating, damage from transportation, or just plain poor quality. I highly recommend that if...

I'm also curious about the option to transfer settings from an earlier computer (such as Windows XP) to a new Windows 7 system. I've had a couple designers in our office express worries about being able to transfer custom color pallets and other preference settings.

I apologize if it seems like I was trying to call anyone a liar, that's the last thing that I meant and it came across wrong I know. I just have heard a lot of back and forth on the new Flexi coming out for the past two years really, where it's just about ready, then it's not even in...

I'm wondering if we will hear anything from Steph Stamm on this thread as well as it would be good to hear from her just for confirmation and any other information. If this is true, it's really great news to hear and I know there are MANY people here enthralled for more information. We are in...

Is there an approximate release time for the new version of Flexi? We have been reluctant to upgrade anything right now because of waiting for the eventuality of a new version to come along soon. Also, what will be some of the added benefits with newer computer hardware? Multi-threaded...

Update: Went to the Hays office and did get it figured out today. Apparently, that bottom option as I was explaing with the "specify Flexi/Casmate fonts with open paths" was grayed out in the machine not working properly. We went into the Flexi Expert program files folder and found a folder...

The window you described above Fred is the preferences menu that I am looking at as well. The path is the Program Files\Flexi Expert 8.1\FSFonts but there are only a fraction of the FT type fonts in that folder as what actually appear in his list of available fonts, and there aren't any FT type...

Fred, I think that is the folder that I am thinking of as well for the version they have, it is similar to this: C:\Program Files\FlexiSign Expert 8.1\FSFonts As you said, it has several other font files in there. However, on the one computer these fonts do not show up in the list of...

I just found out about a font issue within Flexi that a couple of our designers are having. A while back they had to reinstall Flexi on one of their computers, which lost all of their fonts from the computer as well. They copied back over all the fonts in the WINDOWS/Fonts folder that were on...

Another wonderful selling point in Windows 7, and one of the key reasons why I am pushing so hard to get all the computers at our office updated to Windows 7. We are still contemplating leaving the one RIP computer at our Hays office that runs the Mimaki JV3 on Windows XP just because of any...

I agree. For the vast majority of consumers 4 GB of memory is more than plenty for what they are doing. I remember last year Toms Hardware did several tests to determine currently what the ideal amount of RAM is for most consumer PCs. They showed that 3 GB is the most ideal amount of RAM as...

The only difference that most people will see is that with the 32-bit software, you are somewhat handicapped to a maximum of just under 4 GB of RAM in your computer that can be utilized. Even this isn't much of a problem, as there aren't many times that anyone will really use more than 4 GB of...

A few times now, over the past year or so, one of our designers has been having this strange reoccurring issue with Flexi Sign Pro 8.1 on his Windows XP Professional 64-bit workstation. When working with larger projects, he said that it seems elements on the screen seem to freeze and become...

Alright, I've been doing a little more playing around with this and have another comparison idea for your input and ideas. Instead of doing a SSD system at all (which, I know from personal experience do take a little extra maintenance to upkeep to top performance, are still unknown for...

My initial thought after seeing that Flexi would allow you to customize the location of temp files was to utilize a RAMDisk istead of an SSD. After all, a RAMDisk can be several times faster than even the best SSD since it is stored in RAM. However, if you are saying that temp files can range...

Thank you Jamie, that is exactly what I needed to know! That should help in picking out components as well.

There is quite a noticeable performance increase when using a SSD. I've been using two in RAID 0 as my primary operating system drive for a year and it has been amazing the difference it can make. As previously suggested in this thread you can also just get a small SSD dedicated for a scratch...

Thanks for the input Petesign, that will help me in determining future motherboards! As for the render speed in Photoshop, if I'm correct that is basically a lot of load placed on your scratch disk as well, which means the faster your scratch disk in those situations the better the performance...