Subject:OS survey

Posted by: Rednroll

Date:7/28/2003 8:39:06 AM

Title says it all. Just want to get a feel of what OS users are operating Sound Forge on most these days.

Myself:
1. Win XP pro
2. Win 2000 pro

Red

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: vanblah

Date:7/28/2003 8:45:08 AM

XP pro.

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: kilroy

Date:7/28/2003 10:16:34 AM

Shane Brook's 98Micro. It's the only way we know of to get the OS down to a "reasonable" size for A/V, like a 60% size reduction or so.

Very, very lean, fast and stable. Quick boot, instant shutdown, no excess fat laying about.

You may find it interesting that he is currently in beta with a version for 2000/XP for those of you who need dual cpu support etc. If the same performance can be expected from this new release as what is apparent from the 98 version then this could be very good news for DAW users using the newer OS builds. Might be worth checking into if you want a trim, buff OS for audio/video.

All we can tell you is that the difference was so dramatic that it totally convinced us that the OS core for our modern operating systems are waaay too bloated for what we do specifically.

Go here....www.litepc.com...if you are curious. You just gotta like this guy's rebel attitude if nothing else.

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:7/28/2003 11:32:58 AM

98SE on 5 machines
XP Home on 1 machine
XP Pro on 1 machine

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: SHTUNOT

Date:7/28/2003 11:43:18 AM

XP Pro with standard PC installation. The only tweaks I have done is to turn off ALL gui graphical goodness to just the basics.[1024X768>>32bit color res,windows calssic style] Turned off auto load[play/start?] so that when I put a cd its tray it doesn't "play" unless I tell it too.

Ed.

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: captn_spalding

Date:7/28/2003 7:48:37 PM

Win 2k pro

(I've never had problems with sf software and 2k. Did folks move to XP for sf issues?)

...spalding

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:7/28/2003 11:16:48 PM

- SForge machine 98SE (98Lite) - driver-related issues only reason not XP.
- Vegas machine at studio XP-Home.
- 'Office' and general machine at home XP-Pro.


geoff

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: ATP

Date:7/29/2003 5:51:52 AM

XP Pro, SP1a

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: whr

Date:7/29/2003 11:08:03 AM

98SE two machines
Have considered upgrades to XP Pro but am using Gadget Labs 8/24 Sound card which has no drivers for XP.
Will be upgrading soon and am looking for sound advice for OS & Processers for operating Sound Forge and Vegas.
Also looking for advice on Multi Channell sound cards (preferably rackmount) and video cards.

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:7/29/2003 5:04:46 PM

So far my running tally counts.

XP=8
2K=2
98se=9

Hmmm.....that's my concern. Suppose the next version of Sound Forge didn't work on Win98, then what would you do? New OS? Change Hardware? Not upgrade? New PC?

Subject:RE: OS survey

Reply by: MJhig

Date:7/29/2003 5:22:26 PM

I'm using a very stable Win 98 SE.

So Win 98 SE = 10

Answer for now? Stay with the previous version of Sound Forge. Unless the next version has all the DVD Architect functions and improvements of a version update, Sound Forge as an audio editor is where it needs to be for me.

Now as an audio editor/mastering app. which is what I wish it was, that's a different story. There would have to be VERY compelling needs to get me to un-a$$ the money for a new system (hardware) and OS in today's economy. Thank you republicans... again.

MJ

Subject:Os?

Reply by: JTelles

Date:7/29/2003 7:27:23 PM

Ok,
WinXp pro Sp1 on my three machines...
JTelles

Subject:RE: Os?

Reply by: rraud

Date:7/30/2003 1:39:14 PM

PC-1: XP/pro
PC-2 98/se

both very stable running SF-6.

Subject:RE: Os?

Reply by: drbam

Date:7/30/2003 9:07:14 PM

XP Pro Sp 1

drbam