Is it 'OK' for Vista?

VMP wrote on 2/9/2008, 11:09 PM
Hi,
I am upgrading my PC.

Last week I purchased Asus P5KC Mother board, Intel Dual Core Quad CPU, DD2 memory etc.

64 bit compatible pc.

Now of course the 'OS' must be re-installed.

I could now do the following:

A . Install my old W XP Home edition as OS.

The good side: All my old programs should work again.

The bad side: It will not use the full potential of my new system Its 32 bit etc.

B: Buy windows Vista (Ultimate 64 bit) and install that.

Good side: Good hardware performance (?).

But will Vegas (7), Acid etc work on it?

Does Vista have some kind of XP environment simulator which will run the old software?

The software that I mostly use are Vegas (7), Acid, Photoshop and Maxon Cinema 4D.

Thanks for any help,

VMP

Comments

MH_Stevens wrote on 2/9/2008, 11:15 PM
Dear:
Imp Gl.

Vegas loves Vista. With your power you need Vista 64-bit to take advantage of it. ALL your old programs will work with Vista. Only some old hardware has problems.

When I first read your post I thought "OK for Vista" was the name of your new movie? Sounds like a film does it not?
JJKizak wrote on 2/10/2008, 5:58 AM
One problem aplication is Nero 8.1.8 in Vista 64 and also Media Player 11. Bitrate Reader also will not install.
I have V8.0b, Acid Pro 6.0d, Cinescore 1.0c, Forge 9.0e, CDA 5.2b, DVD-A 4.5b, Adobe Reader 8.1, Winmorph 3.01, Neat, Mike Crash filters, Ultimate S, Gear Shift, Deshaker (modified), Virtualdub 1.77, Quicktime Pro 7.4, Power DVD, ALL DIVX stuff, and Cineform Neo installed.
JJK
blink3times wrote on 2/10/2008, 6:35 AM
Add to that list of "good-to-goes".... Vasst's Ultimate S, Pinnacle studio 10.7, and 11.1, Adobe Audition2, Nero7, Adobe Photoshop, ulead MF6, Hauppage winTV, Leadtech analogue TV.

I am also now running 6gigs of Ram with no paging file and it all works great. You will however have problems with any third party programs with unsigned drivers (part of the new security measures).
VMP wrote on 2/10/2008, 9:13 AM
Thanks all for your replies,

The only hardware that I can think about is my Terratec DMX 6 Fire 24/96 sound card.
.

I see no 'Vista' driver on their site for it.

I shall give them a call tomorrow.

VMP
blink3times wrote on 2/10/2008, 11:02 AM
It's listed in the "discontinued" area so you most likely will not find a driver for it.

Of all of the changes to take place from XP to vista, the most serious have occurred in the area of open GL, so sound cards were GREATLY affected. The chances are great that yours will not work at all in vista without a specific set of drivers.
VMP wrote on 2/11/2008, 7:47 AM
Hi,

I called them just now.

They said that there 'will' come a driver for Vista.

But they are not sure when!!

So it all comes to my sound card for not going forward. ;-((

I could write an email stating the same issue maybe that would speed up the driver creation process (?!).

Of course they would rather sell me a new one! grrr.

But there is nothing wrong with the current card itself.

VMP
Kennymusicman wrote on 2/11/2008, 8:02 AM
But...

Your mobo does feature th HD audio - which willl run under Vista 64, and is pretty good all things considered. If your primary concern is not studio quality audio recording, then you'd be fine without your terratec until it's supported..

But even then, the mobo will run at 24bit, 48K +, with 8 channel sound on output, and probably some form of digital I/O. You'll just be lacking full asio support in 64bit apps (asio4all will work under 32bit apps, such as vegas atm! :) )

Something to consider...
VMP wrote on 2/11/2008, 11:36 AM
There seems to be a 'beta' Vista 32/64 driver!

With many warnings ;-))

VMP
VanLazarus wrote on 2/11/2008, 11:16 PM
Well, Vegas 8.0 used to work on my new system Vista 32 bit Quad-core machine, but now I get the dreaded "Vegas has stopped working" message whenever I launch Vegas. Uninstalled the 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable" as suggested by some, resinstalled Vegas 8.0b and still I get the same message. This is very frustrating!!!! I've spend a lot of money upgrading Vegas from 5 to 6 to 7 to 8 and now I have a completely unusable program. Does anyone know how to fix this problem. I'll continue to look through this forum for answers but so far.... nothing.