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Optiv Hardware & 64-bit

Hello!
Running PC-DMIS 2013 MR1 SP5 on an Optiv Performance z443
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The short and sweet of it is: I want 64-bit Windows.

The story is, I've got this Optiv. I'm pretty sure it's got a Matrox framegrabber, although I'm not entirely sure what that is. I would assume it's the card installed in the desktop that handles the camera.
Well I've read it doesn't support 64-bit. So my dreams are shot...
Or are they?

Basically I hear about these Falcon cards, that do pretty much the same thing. And if that would work with 64-bit, that'd be really neat.
Will it? If not, is there another card I can get that'll do what I'm looking for? (Handle the regular CMM vision activity probably)

Another thing. What is the CMM-V probe? from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmKw5X-vNJY I can see it's a probe, but is this what's in an Optiv?
From what I can tell it's got a built in camera and the probes go on a TP200 seperate from the camera, so I don't have it?

I'd like to upgrade. If I need to talk to Hex I will, but I'm trying to beg my company for money so telling them it will cost a bundle to upgrade to x64 it might not sell the idea!
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I performed an upgrade to 64-bit Windows on the online CMM, on a seperate hard drive. The normal drive is a RAID setup with 2 drives, this is a drive without RAID.
I installed it correctly and everything, and I even installed PC-DMIS. We have the dongle so it was rather straightforward. But there were some hiccups, and I am under the impression it's the Matrox card.
If I need to just update the drivers or something because that used to be a problem until Matrox got with the program... I wouldn't know what to do!

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By the way I'm really getting used to these italics!
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  • You guys are the best (collectively, "us") This is a lot of information I can use, and I certainly appreciate the feedback!I will see about these cards; if that's all I need (which I'm pretty sure is the case, considering everything else worked fine in 64-bit, but, Murphy's Law and all..) then I have a good case for upgrading to x64. Pray for me gents & germs!

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    Would I be able to Backup my settings in x86 and restore them in x64?
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  • You guys are the best (collectively, "us") This is a lot of information I can use, and I certainly appreciate the feedback!I will see about these cards; if that's all I need (which I'm pretty sure is the case, considering everything else worked fine in 64-bit, but, Murphy's Law and all..) then I have a good case for upgrading to x64. Pray for me gents & germs!

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    Would I be able to Backup my settings in x86 and restore them in x64?
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