It is likely that there exists a "hack" to get around the SP3 requirement. Don't know what that might be, however, and it's probably not worth the trouble. Can you document any particular error messages upon install?

There is no direct "upgrade" path from XP to 7; it requires a full reinstall. It really is about time to make that move, however. XP 64 is 7-1/2 years old now.

I would go ahead and upgrade to Win7 after making a back up of files on your computer. I upgraded from XP 64 and chose the manual installation method and it didn't wipe the drive, instead put al the files including the XP64 OS in a separate folder on the HDD so I could still access and move the files to a new location in Win7 for easy access, preserving the path so Vegas project files can still find the media withou any issues. The back up of your files is recommended just in case......

No 64-bit vegas ever supported XP 64 (and no version before the 64-bit ever supported any 64-bit OS), just like it no version ever supported running on a Mac-Tel. If you were able to get it to work the good, but tech wouldn't help you either way.

If any one has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.

Here's one - please consider toning down the dramatics...NO version of Vegas (or any other Sony app for that matter) was ever supported on the Win XP x64.

Getting it working and it being "supported" are two drastically different things.

Honestly - even Microsoft doesn't support Win XP x64 anymore - so maybe it's time to get with the times and roll with a modern OS.

Or - perhaps you need to read the system requirements carefully - yourself - before pulling the trigger so fast on an "unsupported" scenario...

VP

srode,

An in-place upgrade such as you describe isn't preferable as the Win7 install will suffer from the fragmentation that already exists on your drive. Additionally, the WinXP files will certainly be occupying the more desirable outer tracks of your hard drive which are the "faster" tracks one would prefer having their new operating system occupy. Such an upgrade is easier, however.

There is a simple registry hack that might allow you to install Vegas 10.0 on Windows XP x64. I will give this a shot on my desktop before upgrading to Windows 7 just for Vegas 10.0, but I haven't tried it yet so try this at your own risk :-)

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Step 1: Run Regedit by Clicking on Start -> Run , type in regedit and press enter

Step 2: Make a backup of your registry (just in case)

Step 3: Browse to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Cur­rentControlSet\Control\Windows­"

Step 4: Modify the value of "CSDVersion" from "0x00000200" (SP2) to the Windows XP SP3 value of "0x00000300"

Step 5: Close registry editor

Step 6: Reboot

This is now probably irrelevant to all but dinosaurs and the slightly insane, but for what it's worth, I now have Vegas Pro 10.0e 32-bit running smoothly (so far) under Windows XP Pro x64 Edition SP2 on my Q6600 box. Unsupported by SCS but no crashes yet, and preview performance of my HDV is better than 8.0c on the same box with similar settings.

The above registry hack did not work, and I tried a few other registry hacks to make my installation look temporarily like XP 32-bit SP3, but they all failed. VP10 refused to install. So I used PCMover Pro.

First I did a vanilla installation of my old copy of XP 32-bit and upgraded to SP3 and installed VP10e. Then made a "no-snapshot moving van" with PCMover Pro, containing just VP10. Then I did a clean install of XP x64 SP2 on the same box, installed the 4 prerequisites that VP10 had installed during the regular install (.NET Framework 3, Windows Installer 4.5, Windows Feature Pack For Storage, and Windows Media Format 11 runtime), and then installed the PCMover moving van containing VP10. I didn't trust PCMover not to have messed things up a little so I then did a repair install of XP x64 to reset Windows things but leave VP10 in place.

At first VP10 would run but there would be a very long delay during "Initializing video services" on the startup screen. But at some point as I installed and updated everything else on this box it sprang into life and now starts up normally. It's possible the windows repair install had removed the Windows Media codecs or something, but I later reinstalled WMP11, so maybe that was the problem.

I don't know why SCS didn't support XP x64 with VP10. Sure, there was no SP3 for XP x64, but it's still supported in terms of Windows updates such as security updates and service packs for .NET framework etc.. Maybe there's a gotcha somewhere, but as yet I haven't found it. I have no problem moving to Windows 7 if I really need to, and will install that on my next new PC, but for the time being I know and like XP x64.

I was going to just use VP10 on this box just for bits and pieces, and do my main work in VP8.0c, but VP8.0c won't give me full framerate HDV playback at best/full once there is Color Corrector on an event, whereas VP10 will let me put Color Corrector + Color Corrector (secondary) on an event and still give full framerate playback. So I'm starting to use it more.

I don't know if VP10 64-bit could be installed the same way with PCMover Pro, but someone on the Creative Cow forum sounds like they managed it. I haven't tried and see no need for the 64-bit version at the moment in my situation.

Will be interesting to see if I get struck by the "Vegas replaced the footage" bug with this setup.

"until I get a new system, as I certainly am not going to take a chance trying to upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows XP Pro 64-bit."

Instead of upgrading why not make the PC dual bootable?

It is drop dead easy.

Bob.

"am not going to take a chance trying to upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows XP Pro 64-bit."

You can't "upgrade" from WinXP to Win 7, it has to be a fresh install.

A "fresh install" can be made from an upgrade disk. Microsoft even provided the information.

1) Install Win 7 from the upgrade DVD, but when it asks for the product key, just hit "continue". This will install Win 7 as a trial.
2) Boot from the upgrade DVD again and select "upgrade". This time, insert the product key and register the program.