I really roadtested Windows XP... impressive!
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Posted on May 13, 2002 08:04 am
dbmasters
Administrator Since: Apr 03, 2002
ya know, over my week vacation I did some hard-core work in the studio and really ran XP for what it's worth, I must say I am very impressed with it's performance. Now I am using just the Gina card and took out my other and really went wild running MANY effects at once, recording up to 30-40 minutes of audio and working on it rather than the typical 3 1/2 minutes song, multitracked in Nuendo duplicating tracks and recording and effecting and mixing and XP held up very well, not one single lock-up or freeze no matter what I threw at it.
Wonderful performance I must say, as much as it kills me to say, Micro$haft did a pretty damn good job on this OS. The stuff I was doing would make 98, 98SE and ME roll-over and die very quickly.
I still need to figure out the multiple sound card issue I am having, but that's only one issue...I can live with one issue :) The other option is that I may be selling a Philips Acoustic Edge 5.1 surround sound card if anyone is interested...awesome card, WDM low-latency drivers, great sound, just doesn't jive iwth my system perfectly.
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zekthedeadcowEat Spam before it eats YOU!!!Member
Since: May 11, 2002
May 13, 2002 01:25 pm I started useing winXP too. Can't exactly say I'm "happy" but it works great if I don't push it too hard. Last windoze OS I used on my own PC was win95 and I killed it even after some creative modifications to some of the ini files my average uptime was 15 minutes.
I switched to Slackware Linux about three years ago because all of my computer stuff was networking related. web/MUD hosting etc.
I was definately looking for a linux based sound program but I also wanted something good.
I liked SONAR 2.0 XL and some documentation said it alond with my Aardvark q10 work best in winXP.
Alone they work great, I can crank my latency down to very low (can go to 1ms) at 5ms I get great audio,. . . but I like to surf the net with this computer. It hates pushing networking and audio at the same time for some reason. So, if I just record thats fine. If I just surf the net thats fine too. If I try to listen to an internet radiostation then it dies.
winXP was also a pain to install. Linux was so much nicer to me. First it had the same Illegal operation during install that win98 was famous for but it did something to my BIOS where I had to reset the chip. It picked up where it left off and left some boot files corrupted so it would post what was wrong and how to fix it for about 2ms and then reboot. I stuck in the install CD and clicked on the repair option. it asked for a floppy disk and I said "what floppy disk?" So I had to start over with a clean install. that time because probably I was just recopying over the files and it didn't have to create any directorys it nmade it through fine.
BUT. at the time I had my aardvark card, ethernet card, and SoundBlaster PCI 512 card in and it wouldn't connect to my netowrk. I took the Sound Blaster card out and it connected fine.
So I have all of my sounds going out my aardvark card. Atleast I can say I have the biggest and most expensive PC sound sysytem in the neighborhood. Aaardvark q10 into my 24 channel soundboard. . . into my 1000w poweramp out my 15" PA speakers. . . makes games fun.
May 13, 2002 01:51 pm WOW, I didn't have ANY install problems with XP, it was very easy, I did the upgrade which was the easiest upgrade I have ever done on a Windoze OS, but then I wipped out my PC anyway and did a clean install and everything went very smooth.
Believe me, if Linux had any pro-level audio/video apps available I would switch so fast it would make your head spin, but I am not holding my breathe for that, my home server runs on Linux Suse 7 and it rocks, but it just ain't the multimedia machine for pro users.......yet...
May 13, 2002 02:27 pm same here on the XP.. i never had any problems with it. the install was absolutely flawless and a lot faster than ME.
if im working on music, im not doing anything else.. but i suspect it would do it just fine since it can do photoshop 7, multiple IE6's, and 2 instant msging programs.
May 13, 2002 03:19 pm dude, don't have "multiple IE's" go get netcaptor at www.netcaptor.com it is the coolest frickin browser you will ever use. Multiple windows at once in a tabbed interface, pop-up killer tools, multi-page startup mode AND it uses IE's backend engine so it renders the webpages just like IE...it's the greatest! Free with a little ad and $30 for the full version with a LIFETIME OF UPGRADES. I bought it when it was $20 and have been getting steady upgrades ever since. CHECK IT OUT DUDE!
MSHARCMember
Since: Apr 05, 2002
May 14, 2002 01:16 pm dB, you said that after you took out your other sound card things started working great? You might remember that I had posted that very same question but Mark Orlando never seemed to weigh in on the subject. I might have to do that I think, but I think it might be onboard sound card because I got the cheapest one they had because I knew I would be using this mainly for recording and I figured I would upgrade to something good for games if I needed it. Have you figured out any easy way in XP to disable the other sound card so I could test it? Thanks, I apprecaite the help.
Marc (da Sharc)
May 14, 2002 01:24 pm the best way to disable it is to pull the card out? I remember the thread but not the specifics, is it an intergrated card in your PC, or an addon you can pull out?
if it is integrated, then you need to go into BIOS and disable it, then uninstall the drivers from Windoze.
zekthedeadcowEat Spam before it eats YOU!!!Member
Since: May 11, 2002
May 29, 2002 06:20 pm well.. . the best way to disable something is to yank it out. . . it's called "creative modification" :)
