Will Vegas Pro11 work on XP or not?

Jeff9329 wrote on 10/18/2011, 11:11 AM
Can someone give me the simple answer, will it work on XP or not?

I see where there is an install workaround. But will it work after that? I may try to get a refund if not, although I should have read the requirements rather than assume it would work on the most popular and most used version of Windows.

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DavidMcKnight wrote on 10/18/2011, 11:33 AM
No.

Look at it this way...even if you found some convoluted way to lay the files down, as soon as you had one iota of a problem the first answer is "XP is not supported".
TheRhino wrote on 10/18/2011, 7:12 PM
IMO it's time to let-go of XP and embarce Windows 7 64... Windows 7 64 has proven to be stable. When we built our last workstations 1.5 years ago, we had them dual-boot to XP, Win 7 32, and Win 7 64. Heck, we even threw-in Vista & OSX on an older MAC Pro just to run some tests on all 5 operating systems!

XP was like a security blanket. We knew it worked and that our drivers & various proprietary hardware would run as intended including a Nikon 5000 slide scanner which is no longer produced and has really outdated drivers...

However, Windows 7 64 has been more stable than I had imagined. It also allows us to use all of our onboard RAM. When it has "crashed", only the program locked & we could restart the program without rebooting. File copies and other utilities are faster within the 64 bit OS... Once we found a hack for making the Nikon 5000 scanner drivers work with Windows 7 64, we never returned to XP.

Granted, along the way we made numerous images of our OS hard drive in case we goofed something up really bad. A couple times I went back to an earlier image just to make certain the OS remained efficient & uncluttered.

This week I helped my uncle buy an entry level Windows 7 64 machine for $350 (at Staples after a coupon). It came with a dual core 2.6ghz processor, 6GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, dual video output (1 is HDMI), and a DVD burner. He doesn't edit video, but that machine would handle HD video just fine with an additional hard drive...

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

Jeff9329 wrote on 10/19/2011, 9:22 AM
My XP machine is just fine, rock solid and fast. I really don't have the time or inclination to jack around fixing something that isn't broken.

74% of current PC users are on the XP OS. Im one of them.

I have another graphic design workstation next to my XP video editing workstation that runs Windows 7. I love it and it works great. But like I said, Im not going to waste my time fixing something that isnt broken.

When I do my next hardare upgrade I will switch to 7 as the drivers will be all wong to work on my current XP image. That's probably another year away though.
DavidMcKnight wrote on 10/19/2011, 9:26 AM
"My XP machine is just fine, rock solid and fast. I really don't have the time or inclination to jack around fixing something that isn't broken.
74% of current PC users are on the XP OS. Im one of them."

IMO Your best option is to stay on Vegas Pro 10.
Burningmoon wrote on 10/19/2011, 9:42 AM
I will, be sure.
bye
Former user wrote on 10/19/2011, 11:27 AM
"But like I said, Im not going to waste my time fixing something that isnt broken."

Well - I think if you try to hack VP11 to run on XP - you may be just asking for trouble (and plenty of wasted time) trying to fix problems that suddenly show up - plus Sony will immediately tell you that this product is not support on XP. if you need some additional support.

Best to stick with VP10 and move to 11 when you are ready.

VP
Sebaz wrote on 10/19/2011, 12:30 PM
"74% of current PC users are on the XP OS. Im one of them."

Are you sure about that? Even if that number was accurate, it would probably include corporate users that use XP for email and writing reports, for which it works just fine. But I seriously doubt that in 2011 most users working in video editing are sticking with an ancient OS like XP.
VidMus wrote on 10/19/2011, 12:36 PM
Jeff9329 said, "My XP machine is just fine, rock solid and fast. I really don't have the time or inclination to jack around fixing something that isn't broken."

It is not about 'fixing' something that is not broken, it is about being future proof.

Vegas 11 is an example. And as time goes by there will be fewer and fewer updates/upgrades of any software that will support Windows XP.

I could install Windows 95 and have a solid running machine but try for any current software? Windows XP will very soon be like Windows 95.

Microsoft's support for the most part has ended. Only 'critical' updates and minimal support at best. Call Microsoft for help when there are problems? They will tell you to get Windows 7.

You are using a dead operating system!

Finally, Windows 7 is soooo much better than XP! Once you upgrade you will no longer think your current system is so great!

"74% of current PC users are on the XP OS."

I most sincerely doubt that! It is less than 50% now.
Former user wrote on 10/19/2011, 1:24 PM
According to some information on the web, as of March 2011, Windows 7 had a 23.08% usage share, XP 55.09%, Vista 11.01% with Windows 7 coming on strong.

Dave T2
malowz wrote on 10/19/2011, 1:38 PM
well, v11 on xp here, working fine. XP have opencl in newer drivers, so, looks like the exclusion of XP, like most software's is a "company decision", and not "xp does not support the new technology we use"

new numbers show win7 recently "passed" XP, so xp still have a huuuge market.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/15/windows-7-overtakes-xp-globally-vista-found-weeping-in-a-corner/

like adobe, when premiere pro required SSE2, then as 64bits only, i think its a bad decision from sony.

but... they are the big company, im just a user. they must know what they are doing, right?

the funny thing i always think about this kind of stuff, is that "every teacher thinks all the free time you have is to study only his course", like all pcs with vegas only have vegas, oh, must update my windows? no prob, just one click. what about the others 60 programs installed and running perfectly i have? oh, just update. all softwares have free updates right? ...
Jeff9329 wrote on 10/19/2011, 9:21 PM
SCS was very nice and refunded my money, so Im not complaining.

Thanks SCS.
malowz wrote on 10/21/2011, 1:16 AM
info: Newblue Titler Pro works on Vegas v10 on XP.