Just A Quick Question

Anon_E._Moose wrote on 5/9/2020, 10:14 PM

Hello! Just dropping by to find an answer to question I have that I haven't been able to find elsewhere;

I recently rediscovered a thing of Sony Vegas Movie Studio 11 HD Platinum that I have from ~2011, and I'm curious if, despite it out-dating the OS, it could still run and function well on Windows 10.

I tried looking up a bit to find some answers, but the most pertinent thing I could find was a topic in here detailing the issues people had with Movie Studio 12 during the updating to Windows 10 everyone was doing; I imagine an even earlier edition would elicit even more issues. This concerned me, but I also have software that was built and has not been worked or developed upon by its creators since the early 1990s which still run perfectly fine on my Windows 10; I imagine that if a generation-old piece of software still works fine, something developed and released some decade ago should similarly work fine.

In short, I'm uncertain whether the program would function correctly or not. Best way to find out would likely be to load the disc, boot it, and see how it performs, but I don't want to risk breaking something or so within my OS by booting some sort of incompatible program. I'm also wondering if anyone else has ran old versions of Sony Vegas on newer OS's and can offer some words of advice from doing so.

Thanks to everyone who responds!

Comments

Musicvid wrote on 5/9/2020, 10:30 PM

Right-click on the .exe file and Run in Compatibility Mode. That will let you know.

That said, I wouldn't get my hopes up. Download the VMS Platinum trial if you would like to look further.

Former user wrote on 5/9/2020, 11:10 PM

I don't know if this helps but I run Vegas Pro V12 on Windows 10 with absolutely no issues. Movie Studio 11 may be around the same generation of software.

vkmast wrote on 5/10/2020, 3:23 AM

I just opened my (Sony) Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11.0 with no trouble on Windows 10 (1903). Every now and then I need to open one of my Sony versions of MSP (10 to 13 still installed) for comparison purposes. So far all of them seem to function as I expect.

(Re)download from MAGIX Download Center or your MAGIX account to get the last build/update).