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Posted by djbruuen on May-17-2007 20:10:

windows xp64?

how screwed will i be by going 64? what are some headaches you run into, and are there any fixes? or have you found everything to run well with minimal problem?

Posted by Eric J on May-17-2007 20:15:

Driver support is very spotty for 64 bit operating systems. You may want to verify that any drivers you have for your studio equipment is 64 bit. You cannot use a 32 bit dirver on a 64 bit operating system.

In addition you'll have to make sure that your DAW software will also run on a 64 bit OS.

Personally, I don't see 64 bit proliferation for a few years in the studio space.

Posted by DigiNut on May-18-2007 01:02:

There is absolutely, positively, no reason whatsoever to start using Windows XP x64 right now. It's an ad-hoc update to Windows XP, isn't all that stable and driver support sucks. Vista, on the other hand, has x64 support baked right in. I don't think Vista is a good choice for production right now either, but for anyone who does want to take advantage of x64 I highly suggest waiting until Vista is stable and then upgrading.

Posted by jupiterone on May-18-2007 01:26:

I hated 64 bit when I had an AMD64, drivers were shit, I had to use beta drivers for my sound card. Little to no support for basically anything. Windows basically went into bitch mode every few months and required formats.

Now I have core2duo. And I love it.

Posted by wrzonance on May-18-2007 03:31:

Depends on your configuration.

A: 64bit processor

B: Motherboard that has a recent chipset that likes 64bit processors

C: (MOST IMPORTANT) AUDIO HARDWARE THAT HAS 64BIT DRIVERS

D: A DAW that takes advantage of 64 bit (e.g. Cubase, Sonar, etc).

ProTools is currently a no-go for 64 bit, AS IS THEIR HARDWARE.

Which is breaking my balls, since I wanted to use Cubase 4 with my Mbox2 on my friends Quad-Core-Intel using Windows XP x64. But, like digi pointed out, XP64 isn't a great choice, and vista isn't quite stable enough to get approval from us audio geeks, and the professional audio world--- yet.

It sucks to find out there's no 64bit drivers for your audio hardware.

So again.

POINT C IS UUUUBERRR IMPORTANT

As for your 32bit applications? No big worries usually. Most 32 bit stuff will run in 64 bit land, just not the other way around.

---Adam