SX3 needs XP?? A.S.A.P!

[A_Sapp]

I recently got SX3, but I've been having some unusual problems. I read in the manual that windows XP is required. Is this right? I'm using 2k!

Am I able to have my DAW run XP while my other two giga machines run 2k?

[js33]

I might work on W2k but only XP is officially supported.

Cheers,
JS

[-Ed]

hey Aaron you were using Sonar werent you? Why the switch, if you dont mind me asking?

[A_Sapp]

Sonar's GUI is dirt slow. I work fairly fast (with slow results), so I need it to be snappy. A friend of mine recommended Cubase so I bought it. Although now I'm kicking myself in the eye because of this problem.

[Bruce A. Richardson]

Sonar's GUI is dirt slow. I work fairly fast (with slow results), so I need it to be snappy. A friend of mine recommended Cubase so I bought it. Although now I'm kicking myself in the eye because of this problem.

Holy cow, Aaron. That's BS. But please, explain.

[Alan Lastufka]

Sappy needed snappy - so he got SX.

Sorry it doesn't work with 2k - I never even thought about that - I've always run XP and just ASSuMEd you did as well. Hope you can upgrade 2k to XP - or install one of the older versions of SX - I sent all three.

[A_Sapp]

Hey Bruce ol' buddy. I had a minor scoring gig some time ago, and it seemed like the simplest of commands took ages - like clicking on a measure. :) I would click, and 1.5 seconds later (sometimes longer) it would finally go to the clicked measure (or whatever part of the music you want to start writing/editing/whatever). I get my new DAW tommorow, so I have a feeling that the delay problems won't be as bad with a faster computer. 3.4 gigahertz, 2 gigs of ram.

The worst feature by far are the audio drop outs. The scoring gig that I got done with required a lot of vsti's, and the drop outs were insane. I think if I could get rid of that, then I'd be pretty happy. I hear Cubase just has crackles and pops, but no drop-outs - which is fine because when you freaking bounce, the crackles aren't going to be there anyway! Way better than constantly hitting the reset button for the thousandth time. - Not an exaggeration.

[A_Sapp]

Although when I'm composing strictly midi/gigastudio stuff, Sonar is indeed quick. But when scoring to video with lotta vsti's, no good!

[-Ed]

You'll still get drop outs depending on your hardware.

I have a Hammerfall 9652 in my new PC and its works even better than Giga3 with VSTs! Of course Giga3 it is GigaTeleported and that seems to use a fair amount of CPU on the giga machine for some reason,

[Evan Gamble]

Tell me when you get the new computer set up..I wanna come over and see it! :)

[js33]

Well the reverse situation is not so dire meaning you can still run old versions of CuBase on XP. I'm still using CuBase 5.1 VST on XP sp2 and it works great. I guess I will upgrade CuBase eventually but I've seen newer versions with all the heiroglyphics and I still like the interface of 5.1 better. :D

Cheers,
JS

[Bo Clausen]

Sorry it doesn't work with 2k

Hey Alan ;)

This is not true -
I run SX on Windows 2000 - with absolutly no problem at all.

All the best
Bo

[c.k]

No probs with SX3 on Win2K SP4 here.

Cheers,

ck

[Seq]

SX3 = XP required definitely. I'm surprised it even let you install it.

You may also want to consider your video card? Perhaps your video card is dragging things down?

[Seq]

Hmm, I had gotten an error message when trying to install SX3 on a non XP machine... just realized that machine was not an NT-kernel machine.

I still think you might want to take a peek at your video card if you're having trouble while trying to run video.