Hi,
I have licenced versions of Mach4 on my laptop and my machine PC. The machine PC is a very low powered dual core Atom MiniITX board and I try to keep this
free of any other software. With the exception of Autoleveller, a Gcode viewer and a text editor the wee Atom performs well even with these auxillary programs
installed and running.
My laptop is an i7 machine, originally Windows 8 but after a meltdown I reverted to Windows 7 32 bit. I have on occasion run my machine via the ESS from my laptop and have
done so with both Windows 8 64 bit and Windows 7 32 bit and it runs fine, in fact within the exception of doing the initial load and draw faster the two PC's perform
identically. My laptop is loaded with all sorts of stuff. I try to have no other software running if I'm using it to run my mill but to be honest I never had a problem with
other software upsetting Mach4.
Following the recommendation 'don't load and certainly don't run any other software on your machine controller PC' is still sage advice and I do my best to comply not
withstanding my experience that Mach4 will run fine in the presence of other programs.
Craig