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JJKizak wrote on 11/18/2014, 8:22 AM
Well I had to update the sound card and video card. I lost access to my Xerox copier/printer. The motherboards did OK with 2gig of ram. Sometimes you have to use Vista drivers to get some stuff to work. Watch out for the "permissions" thing as I have not figured that out yet. If your updating to 64 bit I don't know what you will run into.
JJK
john_dennis wrote on 11/18/2014, 8:42 AM
For machines that still meet the requirements of the task, I'm using Windows XP.

I currently have two machines on Windows 7 64 bit.

I ran a trial of Windows 8.1 and could live with it though I've not been motivated to change any existing machines.

I'm running a pre-release trial of Windows 10, but some aspects of it are currently "dead in the water", Vegas Pro 13 doesn't work since the last update.

I never did nor would I ever run Windows Vista or Windows 8.0.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/18/2014, 9:03 AM
Can't comment on that specific Dell system & GPU, but my system that I had Win XP 32 on got a nice performance boost with 8.1. The thing I lost was the scanner but my printer is also a scanner, so no big deal.

But, imho, if it ain't broke don't "fix" it. Unless you have a compelling reason to get out of XP (I wanted 64-bit) then, if it were me, I wouldn't bother with changing a thing.
rraud wrote on 11/18/2014, 9:35 AM
I run Vegas 9 on an XP 32 bit machine w/o issue.. when I reinstalled the OS a few months back, I just installed the updates that were available.. SP3 and such.e
That said, the machine has no anti-virus apps and such because it's rarely connected to the web.
I agree w/ HappyFriar.. "if it ain't broke don't fix it"
videoITguy wrote on 11/18/2014, 9:45 AM
XP with service pack 3 on 32bit platform is a very fine platform for VegasPro 8 and 9 32bit apps, or any other 32 bit apps. If you still have license, it pays to build on 32bit machines.
BUT - if you are forced to 64bit app(for example VegasPro13) - then you must install Win7 -64bit ServicePack 1 - can be costly if you really want the hardware and the license at the same time.
Steve8 wrote on 11/18/2014, 10:03 AM
I'm running Vegas 10.0 but i bought a couple of years ago even Vegas 11 (still boxed). I was thinking that with 7 i could finally take the advantages of Vegas 11 ( i know guys that i'm in late).
Very interesting to hear your point of views in this thread
Chienworks wrote on 11/18/2014, 10:45 AM
Still running XP SP3 32 bit on everything except my web-surfin' laptop, and even there i have VirtualBox installed with a virtual XP running on it for those older applications i still use all the time that won't run under Win7.

My edit station is running Vegas 9 (been toying with 10 a bit, but dislike the UI changes), Sound Forge 10, ACID 7, DVDA 5.xsomething, and it still keeps humming along just fine.
Warper wrote on 11/18/2014, 10:47 AM
I lost scanner support when upgraded to win 7. It started to work again a year later after they updated drivers.
I lost neat printer driver and now I print in 600dpi instead of 1200dpi. It's not big deal for general laser printer (text looks good enough), but still a bit of loss.
I lost access to part of my computer games. They were using copy protection that doesn't work in win 7.
My movie studio 9 doesn't work in win 7 64 bit. It's bad, since SCS dropped generated music addon shipped with it. And to be honest I'm not fond of royalty free music collection surfing. Also I lost DVD architect with it. Fortunately, I don't need DVD menu and without it can simply burn video DVD from Vegas Edit.
My Belkin Nostromo game panel doesn't have win 7 drivers. Now I don't use it, mostly relying on 6-20 mouse buttons in Logitech mouses and additional G keys in Logitech keyboard.

Also I had to change text editor (used to use Visual Studio for script editing), transcoder, video player, antivirus etc.

You should not go for win 7 unless you add some memory to your computer. You need about 700Mb of memory just for 64 bit OS.
Chienworks wrote on 11/18/2014, 11:20 AM
I'd say you need a minimum of 2GB in order to run applications comfortably with Win 7.
riredale wrote on 11/18/2014, 11:24 AM
Multiple machines still running XPpro32. All run Avast (free) for antivirus, all have Zonealarm for inbound/outbound permissions. Vegas9 runs great, no issues of any sort.

Absolutely no reason to change until I buy hardware that no longer has drivers for XP, or new software that won't support XP.
cbrillow wrote on 11/18/2014, 5:49 PM
My 'main' video computer is still running 32-bit XP Professional SP3, but only because I've not yet built a replacement. This machine has 4-gigs or RAM, but not all of it is available for use because of the 32-bit addressing limitation. I have Avast Free running on it for antivirus, and NEVER use Internet Explorer, due to the extreme vulnerability in IE8, the last version that would run on XP. I also keep Flash up to date and have Java disabled. More recently, I've loaded Sandboxie for running Firefox and use a simple user account, rather than one with administrator privileges. Combined with informed and cautious surfing and email habits, it's about as safe an internet experience as you can get running poor old, abandoned XP.

It's now nearly 2 years since my last serious video project, which resulted in 2 commercially-available DVDs created with Vegas 10 and DVD Architect 5 (maybe 5.2 -- don't remember...)

Since I was mostly dealing with SD video, or uncomplicated HD, that setup was very reliable and stable, and fast enough to not make me crazy.

I have 4 other machines running either 7 or 8.1 (with up to 16gigs of RAM) and have VP12 & DVDA 6 loaded on a couple of them. But I'm only using them for fun video stuff and cable DVR HD or VHS SD transfers to burn to disc. Quite obviously, if another paying job came up, I'd use one of these more modern machines to do it.