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Originally posted by Cetra³ 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.

Very true. MS are not continuing vista so I can't really understand anyone switching to it now, especially when XP does the job the so well and hopefully they will get right with 7.

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 Cetra³ 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.

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 the old implementation has been replaced by a better kernel level system with fancy doowacky scheduling.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.

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.

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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 the old implementation has been replaced by a better kernel level system with fancy doowacky scheduling.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.

Ah well, that's good I guess. Still though, removing direct sound was stupid

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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.

exactly the same here. vista works great with all my plugins and cubase 4, RME multiface, virus ti, sonnox (ilok dongle), korg (synchrosoft dongle), ...

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?

a 64 bit operating system will fix that

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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?

only vista 64bit.

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Originally posted by mysticalninja Also, will some vstis not work in vista?

yes, some will not work in vista. i haven't come accross any yet, though.