Running Flare 7 on a Mac (vmware Fusion/Windows 7 x64)

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raikeswood
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Running Flare 7 on a Mac (vmware Fusion/Windows 7 x64)

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I hoping someone here can help. I'm trying to run Flare 7 on my MacBook Pro and it is not working as it should. Am I doing something wrong? I have read other threads where people have said that it works for them, but I'm having loads of small issues. It kind of works but is very buggy and unreliable.

I have a MacBook Pro with 8GB memory
I'm running the latest version of vmware Fusion and Window 7 (64-bit)
I have Flare V7 with all updates.

Would it be better on 32-bit Windows 7?
Would it be better if I installed Windows via Boot Camp?

Any other tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Gareth
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Re: Running Flare 7 on a Mac (vmware Fusion/Windows 7 x64)

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I don't think it is 32 bit vs 64 bit issue, because I use Flare on W7 64 bit and it works fine. Using bootcamp would definitely improve performance, because you take the virtualization layer out of the equation.
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Re: Running Flare 7 on a Mac (vmware Fusion/Windows 7 x64)

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Thanks Ramon. That's useful.
I'll try BootCamp then.

Has anyone else got a foolproof way of installing Flare on a Mac? Actually not installing, using really. It installs fine.
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