Compatibility of Windows 10 with Gerber USB to Serial/Parallel

[Malkin]

We currently have a PC with Windows 7, running Gerber Omega 4.0. It outputs to an HS15+, an EDGE (LE), and a 48" Odyssey. All are connected on USB to Serial/Parallel conversion cables (official Gerber part, not generic).

The PC is failing and will be replaced with one running Windows 10. Does anyone know if our setup is likely to continue to work as-is, or if it will require an Omega upgrade?

Officially Gerber says that Omega 4.0 is not compatible with Windows 10.
We do have a "layout only" station running Windows 10 with Omega 3.0, and it has no issues at all.

Thanks in advance for any and all thoughts on this.

 

[Solventinkjet]

We currently have a PC with Windows 7, running Gerber Omega 4.0. It outputs to an HS15+, an EDGE (LE), and a 48" Odyssey. All are connected on USB to Serial/Parallel conversion cables (official Gerber part, not generic).

The PC is failing and will be replaced with one running Windows 10. Does anyone know if our setup is likely to continue to work as-is, or if it will require an Omega upgrade?

Officially Gerber says that Omega 4.0 is not compatible with Windows 10.
We do have a "layout only" station running Windows 10 with Omega 3.0, and it has no issues at all.

Thanks in advance for any and all thoughts on this.

When software companies say their software is not compatible with a certain OS they almost always mean, they just wont' help you if you run into any issues. I have switched from OS to OS through the years and have noticed that going from Windows 7 to 10 does not seem to affect a ton of software. The only way to know is to try it. You might have to run in compatibility mode or something like that but I bet you can get it to work. Nothing should really change for the USB cable unless it has some proprietary driver that isn't available for windows 10 or something like that.

 

[Bert Wondervan]

We currently have a PC with Windows 7, running Gerber Omega 4.0. It outputs to an HS15+, an EDGE (LE), and a 48" Odyssey. All are connected on USB to Serial/Parallel conversion cables (official Gerber part, not generic).

The PC is failing and will be replaced with one running Windows 10. Does anyone know if our setup is likely to continue to work as-is, or if it will require an Omega upgrade?

Officially Gerber says that Omega 4.0 is not compatible with Windows 10.
We do have a "layout only" station running Windows 10 with Omega 3.0, and it has no issues at all.

Thanks in advance for any and all thoughts on this.

In fact, the software that is compatible with Windows 7 must also work well with Windows 8 and 10.
Maybe the printer driver for GERBER is not working properly and needs an update.
Just install and see the result.

 

[Hielorojo]

We currently have a PC with Windows 7, running Gerber Omega 4.0. It outputs to an HS15+, an EDGE (LE), and a 48" Odyssey. All are connected on USB to Serial/Parallel conversion cables (official Gerber part, not generic).

The PC is failing and will be replaced with one running Windows 10. Does anyone know if our setup is likely to continue to work as-is, or if it will require an Omega upgrade?

Officially Gerber says that Omega 4.0 is not compatible with Windows 10.
We do have a "layout only" station running Windows 10 with Omega 3.0, and it has no issues at all.

Thanks in advance for any and all thoughts on this.

I have Omega 3.0, Gerber Edge 1 and FX, run over Windows 10 32 BITS and perfect.

 

[Jeff grossman]

I’m using win 10 with an old oddessy and edge 2 - once I got their usb - conversion cables , deleted the win 10 print driver installed the gerber driver and it all works - old envision oddessy fx and edge 2 . You can download the drivers and instructions from gerber or spandex web sites

 

[Hielorojo]

How did you deleted the old win 10 drivers?

 

[Jeff grossman]

I’m using win 10 with an old oddessy and edge 2 - once I got their usb - conversion cables , deleted the win 10 print driver installed the gerber driver and it all works - old envision oddessy fx and edge 2 . You can download the drivers and instructions from gerber or spandex web sites

How did you deleted the old win 10 drivers?

All instructions are on the web site , search gerber download site https://www.gspinc.com/service/software-downloads

 

[Jeff grossman]

How did you deleted the old win 10 drivers?

 

[Malkin]

For the record, all was successful eventually and did not require an Omega upgrade to function.
The above post is correct in that you HAVE to remove the win10 drivers if they get installed, and the USB cable driver installer from Gerber might have had to run in admin mode or compatibility mode (hard to remember as I tried many ways before I found the correct thing to do), other than that, the instructions from Gerber are spot-on.

 

[Ek4949]

Hi everyone,
I am trying to run Omega 4 with Gerber Edge 2 on Windows 10 x64. But I tried so many times to add the driver it says the driver is not compatible. This is the driver that comes with the Omega 4 discs.
It works fine on Windows 7 with a parallel to USB cable but the same cable and settings wont work on Windows 10.
I actually imaged the current windows 7 hard drive to a same model computer and upgraded that OS to windows 10 and it still didnt work.
I called Gerber and they told me that we need to upgrade since version 4 is not compatible with Windows 10.
I saw a few people posting here that they made Gerber Edge 2 work on windows 10 with Omega 4, I am really curious to see how it was done?
Any help would be really really appreciated.

Thank you

 

[Mwblackwelder]

For the record, all was successful eventually and did not require an Omega upgrade to function.
The above post is correct in that you HAVE to remove the win10 drivers if they get installed, and the USB cable driver installer from Gerber might have had to run in admin mode or compatibility mode (hard to remember as I tried many ways before I found the correct thing to do), other than that, the instructions from Gerber are spot-on.

Do you happen to have those instructions? I tried using the link above and it sends me somewhere else. I have windows 11 that I am trying to connect to a summa s160t and I cant get the adapter to work. It actually shows the job in GQ manager and says Active but the plotter does not respond. I can get it to respond and work in Signlab but Gerber is so damn finnicky..lol

 

[Attila Nagy]

Do you happen to have those instructions? I tried using the link above and it sends me somewhere else. I have windows 11 that I am trying to connect to a summa s160t and I cant get the adapter to work. It actually shows the job in GQ manager and says Active but the plotter does not respond. I can get it to respond and work in Signlab but Gerber is so damn finnicky..lol

Have you selected the right USD device? Summa VendorID: 099f, and ProductID: 0100. GerberQM should find it automatically. Can choose manually from the list of Connected Devices as well.

 

[netsol]

From my experience, Microsoft goes way out of their way to make this difficult

Be sure your user is an administrator. Disable driver signature enforcement

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i always start by making a LOCAL USER not one based on email address. then be sure local user is
an administrator. You eliminate all sorts of rights restricti9ns based on where you downloaded drivers to.

 

[Attila Nagy]

From my experience, Microsoft goes way out of their way to make this difficult

Be sure your user is an administrator. Disable driver signature enforcement

Redirecting

i always start by making a LOCAL USER not one based on email address. then be sure local user is
an administrator. You eliminate all sorts of rights restricti9ns based on where you downloaded drivers to.

that totally not necessary all drivers here signed and work.

 

[Mwblackwelder]

Do you happen to have those instructions? I tried using the link above and it sends me somewhere else. I have windows 11 that I am trying to connect to a summa s160t and I cant get the adapter to work. It actually shows the job in GQ manager and says Active but the plotter does not respond. I can get it to respond and work in Signlab but Gerber is so damn finnicky..lol

Have you selected the right USD device? Summa VendorID: 099f, and ProductID: 0100. GerberQM should find it automatically. Can choose manually from the list of Connected Devices as well.

I tried selecting that, but my plotter is not a usb cable. It’s a serial cable with a usb to serial adapter. Does anyone know if I need a gerber usb to serial adapter for this even though it’s not a gerber plotter. This may be my issue if that’s the case, because I have a regular usb to serial adapter on it.