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Pro tools with windows vista
I am thinking of up grading my windows from xp to vista. are there any major bugs in vista that i should be concerned about, does protools run the same in vista, and any pros or cons that i should be aware of.
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Re: Pro tools with windows vista
Dont, No, No and XP runs about 25% faster.
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There is a school here that believes the above, however, my installation of Vista has been rock solid, and every bit as fast as XP Pro once you get it tweaked out right, and some of the unneeded services and window dressing removed.
It's been a great upgrade for me. That's Vista Ultimate SP1 32-bit. --Bill |
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i guess u better leave it on window xp cuz vista will need more plug in update , does Vista Ultimate SP1 32-bit works well on PT , i was thinkin of upgrading vista to sp1 but digidesign said it only surport vista without SP1 ?????
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It works fine with SP1. I think they mean that it hasn't been officially tested on SP1. There are so many improvements and fixes to the original Vista, I wouldn't run it without the service pack.
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Results are results and I opt for a gazillion slutty plug-ins and tons of VI's in our sessions...and for the guys who run at 96k like yourself, every single drop of CPU counts. Windows 7 on the other hand will be a whole other story as it's ram footprint is 450mb and they incorporated Dynamic Services which systematically turn on and off only when needed. Not to mention it's very well optimized for multi CPU usage. Shane
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You know, I came from the XP Pro "I hate Vista camp" and was an early XP Pro BETA tester in the late 90's, maybe 98 or so. Up until a few months ago I was adamantly against anything to do with Vista. But at the same time was getting quite fed up with annoying "been there for years" bugs in XP Pro (like crashing explorer, and the ever creeping page file, to name but two) on larger installations. Plus I had been using XP Pro on DAW's since 1999 (at least) and had it pretty well dialed in. But I found myself wasting time tracking down really weird OS/device/driver bugs that would suddenly pop up out of the blue on too frequent an occasion. That plus the need to reboot often for paging file size, etc., kind of pushed me toward investigating Vista. Mid-year I built up a triple boot system which included XP Pro, V32 Ultimate and V64 Ultimate (in the hopes that next release of PT would support 64-bit. Wrong!) I took me a little while to thin Vista down, get rid of the stuff I absolutely had no use for, and simpify the UI, but after that it was a delight to use. I was also able to move back and forth between the same version of PT (7.4 at that time) on the same PT sessions and drives on the Asus P5B Deluxe q6600 board. In every comparison (operational, not Dverb) Vista seemed to outperform and behave smarter than, XP. It is far more resiliant, much smarter with plug-ins and finding the right ones, with a quickness about it that I hadn't had in a while. XP continued to do well, but didn't have the more polished feel to it. I know that's subjective, but that's what I relied on. My base Vista is about 750Mb including extra utilities that I run, four virtual desktops, two monitors and is not services-crippled like I've heard some setups described. It boots quickly, file i/o is excellent, etc. Never any BSOD's, no paging problems, no explorer problems,etc. Quick boots, quick shutdowns, no surprises... I'll try the Dverbs test later and see how it fares. I don't at all doubt what you say about XP Pro, it is lean and mean, but to me Vista just seems more mature overall. I won't be returning to XP Pro even though I still have it available on the system. --Bill
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I tried the Dverbs test with PT8, by just designating 32 tracks and filling as many inserts with Dverb as I could. I assume you can use the second inserts group on each track as well?
Anyway, with RTAS processors set to four with a threshold of 90%, and the playback buffer to 1024, I could add 202 Dverbs before RTAS processing held at 90%. If I removed a couple I could get into record and hold at 90%. It didn't matter if my plug-ins directory was empty (except for Dverb) or full. And there was plenty of memory not being used. That's quite a bit lower than any of the Quad machines in the Quadzilla thread, all of which are running XP Pro. Quote:
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Since I run a native rig like most of us here, my only choice for an Operating System is for Pro Tools performance only which is why I'm in XP. It's just a tool for my job and Pro Tools is what I use for my full time day job. Windows 7 on the other hand has been a whole other ball game. At this early stage of testing with PT 8, Vista will no longer even be considered because of the huge performance increase when using PT and the XP users will finally be able to move on and be very happy. Let's hope that Microsoft doesnt gut this one to pieces at the end of the beta cycle like they did to Vista when they ripped out the Longhorn kernel, of which all the drivers and UI etc was written for. That stuff initially was never meant for the server 2003 kernel. Shane
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Pro Tools Power User Editing Give your plug-ins a facelift...and skin 'em! __________________ "Music should be performed by the musician, not by the engineer." Michael Wagener 25th July 2005, 02:59 PM __________________ Pro Tools|HD Native 9.0.1 | Pro Tools|HDX 10.2 | Studio One | REAPER 4.22 | HD OMNI | HoboMac Pro 2.26Ghz Quad-Core | W7 Ultimate 64-bit |
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