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SHTUNOT wrote on 11/6/2001, 12:23 AM
This is a weird one to answer. If 98se has treated you so well than why did you splurge for the upgrade so soon? There really is a number of really good reosons to upgrade,one of them being the fact that it distributes resources[irqs]better. In 2000 when you were in acpi mode it bunched everything on one irq{#9]. When you wanted to have your soundcard on its own irq you had to go to standard mode. I did remember reading in the forums of people having some problems so I'm wondering too if they were either fixed,a mistake of the operator[botched instillation],or still to be determined. On the cubase site there are people loving it...but there are still some that are complaining so you can see why I curious. Are you positive that your soundcard drivers are up to snuff [WDM!!!!]? If not...no matter how great any of sonic foundrys program works with XP you will be banging your head against a brick wall at why YOUR having all these problems. Thats where I'd start first. I use a echo layla 20bit soundcard and they are still in the beta stages but I've read some good reviews so I'm about to take the plunge soon. I'm upgrading to XP because I don't even own a copy of win98se [burnt copy]...thats a long story so I won't bother. From a performance standpoint you should make your Os+video drive NTFS and your audio fat32. From a drive thats NTFS you can read a fat32 drive but not in reverse. Better audio performance issues...If anyone else has anything to add to this I'd like to know too. Of course with your video drive being NTFS then you will bypass the 4 gig video limit. Also in windows 2000 there was a small bug in the WDM diver kernell or something[?] and from what I've read it has been fixed in XP. If you find a site on how to optimize XP please let me know. One thing though...buy yourself a copy of nortons ghost. It copies your OS harddrive on to a # of disks. You can make a reinstallation in minutes without the hassle of getting a code from microsoft to open your OS[or even Sound Forge for that matter!]. Of course have all of your programs installed and set up the way you liked them so that your up and running even sooner.Later.
PipelineAudio wrote on 11/6/2001, 2:55 AM
heres some links to winxp audio optimization tips

http://www.recording.org/cgi-local/ubb/dawworld/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=24&DaysPrune=20
GillenFamily wrote on 11/6/2001, 10:41 AM
In response, I purchased Windows XP from Best Buy 2 weeks ago for $99.00. I got form FREE 1 $15.00 cd (any choice), 1-128 ram card, 1 Rio MP3 player and 1-router. That is why I purchased it. I haven't used it yet. I still do not know if anyone would suggest staying with Win98SE or switching. Still sounds like there will be some problems if I use it and I have no problems now.
mbmjk wrote on 11/12/2001, 12:52 AM
I'm having problems with Vegas AUdio, a Delta44 sound card and XP. Midiman and Vegas tech support don't promise that their products will work with XP. I'm having problems with the record/play functionality shutting down after Vegas is shut down and restarted in the same session. A few others as well. I'd wait.
billybk wrote on 11/12/2001, 8:11 AM
If you already have Win98 installed, go ahead a
create a second partition and install XP. If you already have an existing OS installed, during the
XP install process it will ask if you want to install over 98 or install separately. Install to a second partition and XP will create the dual boot for you. This is what I did with WinME. In thirty minutes I was
up and running and installing my Delta 66 WDM(5.12.1.25) drivers and Vegas onto XP. Go ahead and do it, you will not regret it. From using Win95,98 and WinME, XP is,by far,the best of any of the old legacy DOS based OS's. By creating a dual boot, you will still have 98 to fall back on while you are migrating to WinXP. Always, important to remember, never, never
install one OS over another. You will only be asking for problems by co-mingling the OS's. Always do a clean install. Have all of your hardware devices attached during the XP install. It will recognize and install most of the drivers needed from the XP CDROM.
It recognized and installed the appropriate drivers for my ATA-100 hard drives, CDROM drive, floppy drive,
Matrox Firewire PCI card, Adaptec SCSI PCI card, generic 56K PCI modem card, USB Iomega 100MB Zip drive,
& Nvidia TNT2 Pro AGP video card automatically. The only driver I had to install was my Delta 66 WDM driver. It was easily the most painless and seamless
upgrade I have ever done. Kudos to Microsoft for a job well done. Also, the latest Delta WDM driver is XP compatible, as are the latest Vegas Vegas 2.0h, SF 5.0e
and ACID 3.0c updates. They all work flawlessly in XP, but with much better system stability and performance.
Finally, remember during the XP install process to invoke the "Standard PC" mode and not the default "ACPI" mode. Once XP is in ACPI mode all of your hardware will be assigned to IRQ 9. This will cause a big mess when using audio/video hardware and software. Remember "Standard PC" mode @ install or you will have to re-install XP to get out of ACPI.

Billy Buck

SonyEPM wrote on 11/12/2001, 8:41 AM
Vegas has been tested extensively with Windows XP both internally in the SF test lab and externally by our user base. All by itself, Vegas works just fine on XP. Start throwing different hardware configs into the mix and you could run into issues. Most people are reporting few if any problems in XP, but the key is making sure all your hardware has updated, XP-certified drivers.
mbmjk wrote on 11/12/2001, 8:49 AM
I already have XP installed. How do I partition the drive and install 98 on that partition?
tserface wrote on 11/12/2001, 11:07 AM
I totally agree. The only problems I've had thus far have to do with old drivers. Fortunately most hardware manufacturers are providing XP drivers as we speak and snagging them off the net is pretty simple. My only problem now is with an old ATI DVD player driver. They say they should have it any time though. Vegas works better on XP in my opinion. Everything got faster. Or... that could have been the new computer Tom