compare W7 to OS X

[daslicht]

Anyone compared the performance of PT9 on W7 and OS X ?

[danander11]

Originally Posted by daslicht

Anyone compared the performance of PT9 on W7 and OS X ?

IT may be apples and oranges... but I have it on both..

To qualify my comments, I have Win7 64 on a i7-920, 6GB triple-channel RAM, WD black HDs, Gigabyte EX58 UD3R Rev 1.6/1.7, etc... and I have never been able to run Win7 64 stably. I have changed out video cards, RAM, even bought a new version of Win7 and installed to a new drive.. Every so often it would just lock up and require me to disconnect power to get it to restart..

When it was running however, it seemed to run PT9 just fine... Sometimes a bit slow and sometimes seemed to be using a bit too much CPU but it ran well...

Then I bought a 4 year old Mac Pro with 2-3.0 GHz processors and 16GB RAM..

The Mac absolutely flies and doesn't even hiccup. Things installed first time every time and other than a bit of stubbornness in getting it to see my 003r initially, it has worked without a single problem.

Honestly, I haven't fired the Win box up in over a week now..

That's my (qualified and shonky) $0.02

[Obsidian Dragon]

Originally Posted by daslicht

Anyone compared the performance of PT9 on W7 and OS X ?

It depends what you are measuring for "performance." Please clarify.
Time to start Protools
Time to load a session
Amount of Tracks
Amount of Processing Plugins
Amount of Virtual Instruments
Stability
Memory usage
Disk Access
Speed to Bounce to Disk
Ability to recover after a crash
Lower buffer sizes
etc.

For what it's worth, a three minute vocal recording still takes three minutes to capture regardless of how fast the OS or computer is .

[Hotcrazyfruit]

Originally Posted by danander11

IT may be apples and oranges... but I have it on both..

To qualify my comments, I have Win7 64 on a i7-920, 6GB triple-channel RAM, WD black HDs, Gigabyte EX58 UD3R Rev 1.6/1.7, etc... and I have never been able to run Win7 64 stably. I have changed out video cards, RAM, even bought a new version of Win7 and installed to a new drive.. Every so often it would just lock up and require me to disconnect power to get it to restart..

When it was running however, it seemed to run PT9 just fine... Sometimes a bit slow and sometimes seemed to be using a bit too much CPU but it ran well...

Then I bought a 4 year old Mac Pro with 2-3.0 GHz processors and 16GB RAM..

The Mac absolutely flies and doesn't even hiccup. Things installed first time every time and other than a bit of stubbornness in getting it to see my 003r initially, it has worked without a single problem.

Honestly, I haven't fired the Win box up in over a week now..

That's my (qualified and shonky) $0.02

I think u had a bad build.. The locking up you described points towards a bad cpu or motherboard to me.

On that note, i am running completely stable here, and i'm running a 50 percent over clock at 4.2 GHz.

Absolutly blazing fast, i never ever have to worry about how many plug ins im running, my system jsut kinda, handles it!

Nick

[danander11]

Originally Posted by Hotcrazyfruit

I think u had a bad build.. The locking up you described points towards a bad cpu or motherboard to me.

On that note, i am running completely stable here, and i'm running a 50 percent over clock at 4.2 GHz.

Absolutly blazing fast, i never ever have to worry about how many plug ins im running, my system jsut kinda, handles it!

Nick

That's what I was thinking too.. I had problems with v8 on this box as well.. Not going to dump any more money into it though. The Mac should suffice my needs nicely.

Maybe I can use it to play Black Ops or something?

[daslicht]

Hm so far my impressions are better on W7 than OSX especially when working with structure which is pretty unstable on my mac.

On Windows 7 therefore I get (-9128) Errors when navigating through banks using my command 8.
Cheers
Marc

[egrideout]

I'm finally not having any problems on W7 after I did the optimizations. I just switched from OSX to Win 7 using project mix I/O as my audio interface and now I have 64 samples option for the hardware buffer. On OS X 128 was the lowest option. I run hw buffer of 128 samples with no problems on W7-64. On the MBP I had to use 256 or sometimes 512. I realize that part of that is because of going from a C2 duo @ 2ghz to an i7-870 @2.93ghz.

[daslicht]

Funny , same here , I just fixed my issues aswell!

[Hotcrazyfruit]

Originally Posted by danander11

Maybe I can use it to play Black Ops or something?

Bad company 2 is alot better ;o

[albee1952]

I work on both PT9 on my i7 920 and HD3 PT8 on a Mac Pro. Being used to Windows shortcuts makes me a tad more comfy there, but otherwise, I have no ax to grind with either platforms function. My beef right now is stability, and both platforms give me a bit of hassle, with the Mac rig taking the prize for pi$$ing off the operator. This system was installed and configured by a pro outfit that does this all the time, but i can crash it at will. Not sure what's going on and I am sure there is a bug to fix somewhere in there(but not being a Mac expert, I have no clue). I simple "separate region" command nets me the spinning wheel of death. I also went thru the help section in an attempt to trash prefs and failed. Then phoned a Mac expert and followed his instructions, and STILL failed(after the reboot, all the prefs were still at their previous settings). Is there a Mac version of the Skunkworks trasher ute?