7.4 waste of my cash?

[TREXROCK]

Well im going back to 7.3, 14 plugins and my cpu is half used up? sorry. I was so stoked for this, it would have been nice to know this update is a straight up cpu hog. I'm not going to limit processing for this when i can use TCE and beat detective and achieve similar results. I know i'll get knocked for saying this but i bought my computer only a year and a half ago and it doesn't cut it for this? BOOOO! I love pro tools still and will never ever switch but this is a joke, and do we have to accept this as the be all end all of it? or can we expect some tweaks that will improve cpu usage. All I know is tonight I'm switching back until they fix this. Another discouraging thought also is if 7.5 has delay compensation and I can't use it cause elastic audio is here to stay, dammit. Bring on the delay comp, I think people wanted that more than this EA thing so whats the hold up?

[neatguys]

i know its a cpu pig . But watch those movies about stretch !!I just bought another mbox 2 so i got 7.4 free (downloaded after registration). its totally kicked my laptops butt but rocks good on my dual core tower . all i did though was edit my new york drums which i have had forever into perfect loops .
Havent tried any real multi tracking yet though .

[TREXROCK]

I watched the movies that's why I couldn't wait to buy it and I did! But I feel really bummmed about it right now, Im running a 2.8 ghz dual core intel and 3 gb ram I know that's not the fastest rig out there but it's not the slowest either! So I don't know may give it a shot but feeling rather sketchy at the moment.

[Avid]

You listed these system details in another post:

Setup is
HP A1440n i945 chipshet 2.8 ghz dual core 820 viiv processor, 2 250 Gig hard drives audio drive is western digital sata. 3 Ghz ram

What operating system are you running?

[TREXROCK]

I am running windows xp sp2 media edition. I know it says it's not compatible on here but it ran 7.3 without a hitch. Maybe it is the problem, just seems wierd that it ran 7.3 ok and not this. What do u think?

[sriks]

Hi,
In first place, I am just wondering how 7.3 worked on Windows Media edition,

I had a powerful windows XP media box with dual core cpus, tons of ram and acres of Harddisk space, I went to digi003, and it failed horribly, i had to revert to digi001 to keep my studio running,
I called support - but they had a well defined, documented exit strategy - unsupported OS - windows media edition. poof that's it,

I am a software architect by proffesion and I really see no big difference between media edition and the home edition but that knowledge did not help, digi had their anticipatory bail - a published list of unsupported systems. Instead of wasting time, I got a new dual core with XP home edition. Since then, PT has been well behaved other than occasional access violation error.

anticipatory bail as of today - USB Card readers can cause such error, and damn, I have an internal card reader slot [$60],which are "officially" disabled for pt to work.

Now for 7.4 they need $50,LOL ,

Comeon DigiDesign, rather than teasing small time (LE)musicians, you can make it up from Icon consoles and other HD hardwares.

Cheers.

[DigiTechSupt]

I am running windows xp sp2 media edition. I know it says it's not compatible on here but it ran 7.3 without a hitch. Maybe it is the problem, just seems wierd that it ran 7.3 ok and not this. What do u think?

We think that running an unsupported OS is an invitation to problems.

Very often with unsupported and known incompatible components we'll see them work for awhile - maybe a day, maybe a week, maybe a month or more. At some point the usually fail and, after that, there's really no recovering from it. Why this is, I can't be sure, but years of empirical evidence says 'avoid unsupported/incompatible components at all costs'.

You may want to post a Sandra report, so we can be sure that the rest of your system is within spec.

[sunburst79]

7.3 ran fine for me with MCE, so is 7.4. I test everthing in my MCE partition first. It's my guina pig so to speak.

Unsupported is unsupported though and I would advise anyone to run a supported OS. My "Real" Protools partition is XP Home.

[Stiff]

While I'm usually the first one to say that Pro Tools LE is a hog, I don't find 7.4 to be any worse than 7.3. Overall I actually find it more "snappy".

[neatguys]

yeah i went from 7.0 to 7.4 Like the media center guy that posted this i am not running the required specs also. I dont have an external oxford 911 a firewire drive for audio only .
Mines also an xp pro laptop.Just ordered an enclosure
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other...ng/MEFW911UPL/

I am actually geeked about opening protools again after using ableton only for quite awhile