PT 11 or 10

[Mr. Kelly]

Hi all,

It’s been a while since I’ve been here, which is good news, since PT has been working fine for about the last five years…

That being said, I’m having an annoying issue with PT 11. In truth, I couldn’t get PT 11 to work at all on my previous Windows 7 system, even given that my system was built to spec by Avid standards. I was quite happy with sticking with PT 10, since I’ve been using it for years with virtually no major dilemmas.

About a year ago, I upgraded my system to Windows 10. Recently, my Waves licenses haven’t been showing up on PT 10, so I thought I would give my co install of PT 11 a try, and interestingly, my Waves plug-ins work fine in PT 11

PT 11 works well, except for one annoying problem. Likely about every fifth or 10th command, the system locks and freezers for about 5 to 10 seconds. It does the same when I activate the record command. Everything freezes for about 10 seconds before it starts up. This isn’t the end of the world, but it is frustrating and disrupts workflow, as you can imagine.

Other than that, PT 11 works fine. I will state that I have also done all of the system tweaks that are recommended for PT 11.

So, the point of my query, is to determine whether there might be something I am missing with my set up of PT 11, or I should just simply try to delete PT 11 and go back to 10, since it worked flawlessly for many years. That would mean I would have to revert back to an earlier version of my Waves plug-ins, but I’m not sure if that should be a huge issue, either.

Also, I was going to try to delete my install of PT 10, just to see what happens with PT 11, but when I go into the program manager of Windows 10, the command for uninstalling both PT 10 and 11 is grayed out. Does anybody know what the protocol is for uninstalling PT on Windows 10?

Thanks for any insight you might have!

[albee1952]

To uninstall with Windows 10, open the Apps & Features window and click(upper right corner) "Programs and Features". That will bring up a list where you CAN uninstall PT. Right-click on the program you wish to uninstall and click "Change" and then it will give you options.

There might be some tweaks you need(which aren't part of the instructions);
1-In BIOS, if you can, disable floppy drive(even if there isn't one).
2-make sure you don't have a CD or DVD in your optical drive

If the computer is connected to the internet, try disconnecting(disable wifi or unplug network cable). Hopefully some smarter folks will have more advice, but at least now you can uninstall

[Ben Jenssen]

DUC oldtimer!
Once you're on Windows 10, only PT11 and above is supported, for one thing.

[sw rec]

Plus, as of Pro Tools 11, the plugin format is ONLY 64-bit AAX, where PT 10 used RTAS and 32-bit AAX, so if you didn’t update your plugins accordingly, that’s why they don’t show up.

[albee1952]

Ben and sw rec are both correct and that reminds of something else that might help; When you upgrade the OS and run PT 11 AND PT 10, your system drive is going to be bloated with a lot of useless stuff, so your issues with 11 might be solved by doing a fresh system drive that isn't weighed down with all the old 32 bit stuff. I had to bite the same bullet recently as I could not get 2020.3 to work, no matter what I tried. Out of desperation, I reformatted the system drive and did a fresh install of everything from the OS and every plugin I own. Yes, it was a royal PITA, but now the rig works really well