I finally threw in the towel and bought Diving Log 5.0.
It's been a long journey. I've been with SDM since 2002 when I bought my Vyper and the stupidly-priced interface cable. I did the normal suffering through each version change but DM4 was a disaster and I went back to DM3 and have been there since. DM3 is acceptable and familiar.
However....because I bought the interface cable in 2002, it is a serial connector not USB. So I bought a $15 adapter to convert to USB rather than pay another $100 for the Suunto USB cable. This cobbled-together cable worked just fine on my old desktop with XP but I could not get it to work on my new Windows 7 laptop. As I searched for solutions on this board I discovered Diving Log 5.0. I had no problem downloading dives to Diving Log 5.0 software (demo version) with my cobbled-together cable, so that told me it is a problem with DM3 and not Windows 7.
Now I'm headed to Cozumel in a few days and finally pulled the trigger and bought Diving Log 5.0. Boy am I glad I did. It is so much easier to use, the learning curve has been very quick and I no longer have to face the problems with SDM, which will only get more challenging in the future. I still like my Vyper computer but the pathetic software does make me wonder what they're smoking back at Suunto headquarters. So when my 12 year old Vyper finally bites the dust, I will still lean toward another Suunto but my experience with the software will definitely make me look elsewhere as well.
Suunto - what are you doing?? You make great products only to tarnish your image with horrible software. Wake up already!
It's been a long journey. I've been with SDM since 2002 when I bought my Vyper and the stupidly-priced interface cable. I did the normal suffering through each version change but DM4 was a disaster and I went back to DM3 and have been there since. DM3 is acceptable and familiar.
However....because I bought the interface cable in 2002, it is a serial connector not USB. So I bought a $15 adapter to convert to USB rather than pay another $100 for the Suunto USB cable. This cobbled-together cable worked just fine on my old desktop with XP but I could not get it to work on my new Windows 7 laptop. As I searched for solutions on this board I discovered Diving Log 5.0. I had no problem downloading dives to Diving Log 5.0 software (demo version) with my cobbled-together cable, so that told me it is a problem with DM3 and not Windows 7.
Now I'm headed to Cozumel in a few days and finally pulled the trigger and bought Diving Log 5.0. Boy am I glad I did. It is so much easier to use, the learning curve has been very quick and I no longer have to face the problems with SDM, which will only get more challenging in the future. I still like my Vyper computer but the pathetic software does make me wonder what they're smoking back at Suunto headquarters. So when my 12 year old Vyper finally bites the dust, I will still lean toward another Suunto but my experience with the software will definitely make me look elsewhere as well.
Suunto - what are you doing?? You make great products only to tarnish your image with horrible software. Wake up already!