Yes it works great. I think it works better, since Win 8 has better memory management and background app management. Sure Sony will need to release updates to take advantage of new features, or graphic performance benefits. I installed Movie Studio 11 on back on consumer preview with no issues other than telling the OS to install in win7 compatibility mode. Problems people have with it probably have to do with some cheap hardware they bought that might not be fully compatible with win8. Quality Win7 hardware is compatible with Win8, same goes with software.

I actually have an issue with Vegas 12 running on Windows 8, it won't load! It stalls on the 'Initializing Direct X plugins' part. So I'm guessing one of my plugins may be incompatible. Shouldn't be a problem though. I'll sort through them and find the cause of the problem. Possibly one of my older Izotope plugins I would guess, since those are all I've installed.

As for Windows 8, it runs very nicely. No real complaints. Most of the touch apps I've either hidden or uninstalled. I've always been a fan of Windows Classic and would always modify whatever version I had, but would always tweak to the colours to make that navy blue bar along the top the same colour as the fill colour, buttons etc. But with Windows 8, I don't need to change anything. And already I've already become accustomed to the Start Screen. It's just nice to be up to date.

Actually, my only real concern is that I can no longer see thumbnails in Windows Explorer or whatever they call it now.

I have a project ready to render, and I can not. closes closes in all formats that I put in the render.
Or sony releases a new buid to fix this, or I will have to migrate to other software.
I am using w8 pro

Have you tried reducing your preview RAM to 0? On my system (and the systems of some others here) that makes a huge difference in stability. I have 16GB by the way, so it shouldn't.

Reply by: Pete Siamidis, Date: 10/27/2012 7:51:17 PM
to me it's clearly better than Windows 7 as it runs smoother, faster, uses less ram, etc

I believe Win 8 uses GPU acceleration. It makes me wonder how this affects Vegas' GPU performance w/ the OS and multiple apps competing for GPU resources.

This comparison between Win 8 and Win 7 is pretty interesting though.

Been running Windows 8 with no problems in Vegas12, my GTX 670 works fine..
All my New Blue and Pro DAd Addons work as well....

Too bad the video card used is not mentioned.

Regards,

> "I believe Win 8 uses GPU acceleration. It makes me wonder how this affects Vegas' GPU performance w/ the OS and multiple apps competing for GPU resources."

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/07/23/hardware-accelerating-everything-windows-8-graphics.aspx

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/windows-8-gpu-acceleration-good-news-for-metro/

Like win7 I don't believe win8 isn't going to use any [or hardly any] graphics hardware acceleration if you're not doing anything, not running any apps, don't have live tiles up on the touchscreen interface, don't have 20 touchscreen apps sleeping etc. In that respect don't see how it'd be much different than turning off background processes you don't want/need, shutting down apps you don't want/need while using Vegas in XP <-> win7. Also like XP <-> win7 imagine you could load up a system with resource demanding apps, then open up your web browser & watch things slowed to a crawl. That might be more difficult in win8, but don't see how it could be eliminated -- PCs have finite resources.

As far as win8 effecting GPU assist in VP 12, win8 works better & doesn't have some of win7's wasteful double buffering etc. so that should work a bit better too. But to take advantage for example of any added DX11 features you'd need DX11 hardware obviously, & Sony would have to write VP to take advantage of those new features -- otherwise it will continue to do just what it does in win7.

Bear in mind... the best way I can explain it at the moment is that coding for DX is like using shortcuts where one small batch of code can do the same thing as a larger batch, quicker. However those smaller batches of code only do certain things -- to use one of those smaller batches in some situations you might have to write 2 or 3 times more code than had you left out the DX stuff in the 1st place. Long story short, while MS may say something is grand, e.g. DX11 in win8, the developers are the ones who will decide if it's indeed worthwhile.

Also bear in mind... what makes VP & some other apps faster is GPU assist other than the standard DXVA -- OpenCL plus with Nvidia,.Cuda. I haven't seen anything saying win8 is better, more efficient when it comes to that.

Has anyone gotten Vegas 10 to run in Windows 8?