After some good feedback on my previous post, I now want people to chime in on this:
Which works better for running live, Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP (home or Pro)???
Im currently running win xp home, and think that maybe I may be able to get better performance from windows 2000, but Im interested in what the forum has to say....
Win 2000 or Win XP
Oh yeah,
while we're at it: If you need even more tweaking advice, how about http://www.bluelifeaudio.com/~pcconfig/, which also includes Win2000, saying it is probably the most appropriate for Audio.... I am not so sure, if you take a look at the Emagic Logic forum at www.sonikmatter.com and pick out what Dave Bellingham (nick: oscwilde), the DAW guru, has to say about Win OSs, it's: the future is XP. Which is logical, as it does away with a lot of the legacy stuff.....
Good luck!
the only advice I can give you is:
Have your machine configured by s.o. who knows his stuff. My Win98 was configured professionally and works great, the XP I configured myself and it sucks (while I still think it is the better system when done right)
Ciao
while we're at it: If you need even more tweaking advice, how about http://www.bluelifeaudio.com/~pcconfig/, which also includes Win2000, saying it is probably the most appropriate for Audio.... I am not so sure, if you take a look at the Emagic Logic forum at www.sonikmatter.com and pick out what Dave Bellingham (nick: oscwilde), the DAW guru, has to say about Win OSs, it's: the future is XP. Which is logical, as it does away with a lot of the legacy stuff.....
Good luck!
the only advice I can give you is:
Have your machine configured by s.o. who knows his stuff. My Win98 was configured professionally and works great, the XP I configured myself and it sucks (while I still think it is the better system when done right)
Ciao
Hi
I'm running Live 1.5 on a Pentium 4 1.8ghz in Win 2K. It seems to run fine with no real glitches. I occasionally get an overload ond disk activity in an unpredictable fashion so I take care to clean of and optimise my 7200 rpm audio disk regularly. The Live demo session shows 3% CPU usage when loaded.
No experience of XP though.
I'm running Live 1.5 on a Pentium 4 1.8ghz in Win 2K. It seems to run fine with no real glitches. I occasionally get an overload ond disk activity in an unpredictable fashion so I take care to clean of and optimise my 7200 rpm audio disk regularly. The Live demo session shows 3% CPU usage when loaded.
No experience of XP though.