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Windows Vista...is it time?
A fried of mine who works a system admin once said: "The transition from win98 to XP was a huge step forward. XP to vista is not" And I tend to agree with him. So I postponed upgrading the OS until Vista is stable/bugfree (enough) to work on.
It's been quite some time from it's release and some SP's were released, hardware support prolly much better now, but... Has the time come to switch?
i got both vista and xp for free from my uni. i run xp purely because i just dont like vista very much, for no apparent reason. i guess i just dont like the feel of it.
Don't fix what isn't broken. XP became much more stable than 98/2000 so it was worth to upgrade from there. I can't think of a reason to upgrade from XP to Vista.
...from my cold dead fingers.
I think what it really comes down to is that an upgrade just isn't needed at this time. The technology hasn't advanced enough to warrant such a significant change. I can think of a reason to upgrade to Vista. DirectX 10 for gaming. That's about it.
yeah dont bother upgrading to vista, it's a computer whore and the gui sucks
Vista is a piece of shit.
Why eat up CPU cycles for stuff you don't need? Even on Windows XP, you can turn off a lot of processes, such as the Print Spooler, that may eat up resources not needed on a workstation dedicated to your studio. Each individual process may not eat up a lot by itself, but if you have a whole lot of little process running they can add up fast.
Vista and XP wastes a lot of resources on things that are not necessary for a base production workstation.
Save those extra cycles for your DAW software needs.
Even in the Mac world, a lot of us have stayed with Tiger for now, since there aren't a whole lot of "must have" features in Leopard (although there are a lot of "nice to haves" like Spaces).
Your production workstation is not the place to be on the cutting edge of operating system technology.
Windows 7 well be out soon!
I've just upgraded to Vista.. so far it works great! Yeah, I was a bit sceptic at first because all the rumors about it being so buggy. Sure, XP worked great for me! BUT as I have 4GB of RAM, I need a 64bit system. The 64bit version of XP (XP x64) is a real pain in the ass, becuase it's not very compatible. There weren't much drivers to it. I had to work with a crappy beta driver to my delta soundcard, wich crashed several times a day thanks to that. Apart from the soundcard, my digital camera and my webcam wasn't compatible to it either. And a few of other things. But for vista on the other hand, there is drivers etc. So that's mostly why I upgraded. Works like a charm so far! 
Vista is to XP
as ME was to 98
I'm sorry, Vista is pretty broken and Microsoft aren't even trying to fix it!
They have focused their development on Windows 7 and sorta dropped vista as another bad egg in their repertoire
For producing though, XP is faster. DirectSound is emulated in Vista, as they completely abolished it. There is also like 1000000 more layers of API to work through now, which sucks out the performance of everything.
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| Originally posted by Cetra� Vista is to XP as ME was to 98 I'm sorry, Vista is pretty broken and Microsoft aren't even trying to fix it! They have focused their development on Windows 7 and sorta dropped vista as another bad egg in their repertoire For producing though, XP is faster. DirectSound is emulated in Vista, as they completely abolished it. There is also like 1000000 more layers of API to work through now, which sucks out the performance of everything. |
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| Originally posted by Cetra� Vista is to XP as ME was to 98 I'm sorry, Vista is pretty broken and Microsoft aren't even trying to fix it! They have focused their development on Windows 7 and sorta dropped vista as another bad egg in their repertoire For producing though, XP is faster. DirectSound is emulated in Vista, as they completely abolished it. There is also like 1000000 more layers of API to work through now, which sucks out the performance of everything. |
Well I guess that settles it. No Vista in my home studio.
I posted a similar question on a PC "expert" forum and, strangely enough, they were saying the opposite. Vista being great and all.. Go figure.. 
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| Originally posted by Cetra� For producing though, XP is faster. DirectSound is emulated in Vista, as they completely abolished it. There is also like 1000000 more layers of API to work through now, which sucks out the performance of everything. |
i posted this on GS but my vista is a lot more stable than my XP and all my plugs work on it. My latency is less on my sound card and my virus TI has zero jitter.
the only bit of kit that isn't working 100% is the waves mercury bundle which i bought years ago and don't even really use much anymore.
i'm very happy with vista.
The only reason i would like to have Vista is that you can have more RAM in it.
But my XP is stable as a rock, wouldnt dream of changing.
every other windows os release is a flop imo
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| Originally posted by Zombie0729 my vista is a lot more stable than my XP and all my plugs work on it. |
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| Originally posted by echosystm this is wrong. as far as i am aware! vista is actually, technically, better for producing. the old implementation has been replaced by a better kernel level system with fancy doowacky scheduling. most good drivers can use this now, even with ASIO to some degree. |
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| Originally posted by Zombie0729 i posted this on GS but my vista is a lot more stable than my XP and all my plugs work on it. My latency is less on my sound card and my virus TI has zero jitter. i'm very happy with vista. |
I have 4gb ram but only shows up as 3.25 in XP pro. Will vista fix that?
Also, will some vstis not work in vista?
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| Originally posted by mysticalninja I have 4gb ram but only shows up as 3.25 in XP pro. Will vista fix that? Also, will some vstis not work in vista? |
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| Originally posted by mysticalninja I have 4gb ram but only shows up as 3.25 in XP pro. Will vista fix that? |
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| Originally posted by mysticalninja Also, will some vstis not work in vista? |
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