Cubase workstation: Windpws XP pro, but: SP1, SP2 or SP3 ?
Hueyduck
I currently make music with a PC that has a dual boot system.
The older system is the one I make music with : Win XPpro SP1.
I only make music with this system, and it works like a charm.
On another partition, there is a Win XP pro SP2.
I use it for everything else.
My PC is 8 year old and I will build a new one soon.
What I wanted to do as a first step is replicate on the new system the
elements that I know will work together.
When I read posts on this forum, for instance, I get the idea that I'm
not the only one who kept SP1 because there was nothing wrong with it.
Could someone confirm that SP2 has no defaults compared to SP1 as far as
a Music workstation is concerned?
I doubt that I will consider *SP3*, but has any of you found benefic in
installing SP3?
btw: I still use Cubase SX 1.5.3.
Thanks for your answers
Huey
nickm
"Hueyduck" <huey...@trashmail.net> wrote in message
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Personally, I have found no problems running Cubase on Windows XP Pro SP1,
SP2 or SP3 and neither have I experienced any issues running Cubase on
Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit or Home Premium with the original release or
SP1. I currently have SX3 and 4.1 installed with Cubase 4.5 now downloaded
and ready to go. I have version 4.1 installed with no problems on my
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit system. I can go back to install SX 1 or SX2,
and have still got one machine with VST 5.2 on it as well.
Hardware driver problems are really the only thing I've had to fight with,
and on XP those are virtually non-existent as long as the hardware is of a
decent make.
SP2 did add some extra features to XP, but SP3 is more of a roll up of
security fixes and final bug fixes and doesn't add many, if any useful
additional features that you'd need to use with Cubase.
I would probably update my system to SP2, but SP3 shouldn't cause any
problems either way.
When you build your new PC, if you want to stick with XP as the OS, you need
to have a copy that will allow you to transfer it from your old PC to your
new one, a new OEM copy or an otherwise legitimate copy. Getting hold of an
OEM copy of XP got harder from 30 June as M$ stopped making it available,
but some suppliers still have copies to sell. You will probably build a new
PC with the capability of accepting rather more RAM than your existing
system has, and you *may* want to consider Windows Vista 64bit which will
give you access to more than the visible 3 and a bit GB (max 4GB) which any
32 bit OS will. If your audio hardware has 64bit drivers available, this
may be worth pursuing.
Hueyduck
>
> Personally, I have found no problems running Cubase on Windows XP Pro
> SP1, SP2 or SP3 and neither have I experienced any issues running Cubase
> on Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit or Home Premium with the original
> release or SP1. I currently have SX3 and 4.1 installed with Cubase 4.5
> now downloaded and ready to go. I have version 4.1 installed with no
> problems on my Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit system. I can go back to
> install SX 1 or SX2, and have still got one machine with VST 5.2 on it
> as well.
>
Thanks for this testimony. That is reassuring :)
Could you tell me if you managed to install your VST 5.2 with WinXP?
> Hardware driver problems are really the only thing I've had to fight
> with, and on XP those are virtually non-existent as long as the hardware
> is of a decent make.
My audio card is a RME one. Drivers from this firm are not known to be
an issue, that's the least I can say ;-)
> You
> will probably build a new PC with the capability of accepting rather
> more RAM than your existing system has, and you *may* want to consider
> Windows Vista 64bit which will give you access to more than the visible
> 3 and a bit GB (max 4GB) which any 32 bit OS will. If your audio
> hardware has 64bit drivers available, this may be worth pursuing.
Actually, I will save a partition on my HDD to try a 64bit OS. But this
is really at the end of my to-do list.
Thanks again.
Huey
nickm
> nickm a écrit :
>
>>
>> Personally, I have found no problems running Cubase on Windows XP Pro
>> SP1, SP2 or SP3 and neither have I experienced any issues running Cubase
>> on Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit or Home Premium with the original
>> release or SP1. I currently have SX3 and 4.1 installed with Cubase 4.5
>> now downloaded and ready to go. I have version 4.1 installed with no
>> problems on my Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit system. I can go back to
>> install SX 1 or SX2, and have still got one machine with VST 5.2 on it as
>> well.
>>
>
> Thanks for this testimony. That is reassuring :)
> Could you tell me if you managed to install your VST 5.2 with WinXP?
Yes I did. I had to work on a project with someone who only had VST early
last year, so I needed it to give him the songs in a format his computer
would work with. I had a job finding my installation CD as being so old, it
was buried, and then I had to apply an upgrade patch to get to 5.2 :-)
>
>
>> Hardware driver problems are really the only thing I've had to fight
>> with, and on XP those are virtually non-existent as long as the hardware
>> is of a decent make.
>
> My audio card is a RME one. Drivers from this firm are not known to be an
> issue, that's the least I can say ;-)
You shouldn't have problems with drivers for your card with whatever
operating system you go with
>
>> You
>> will probably build a new PC with the capability of accepting rather more
>> RAM than your existing system has, and you *may* want to consider Windows
>> Vista 64bit which will give you access to more than the visible 3 and a
>> bit GB (max 4GB) which any 32 bit OS will. If your audio hardware has
>> 64bit drivers available, this may be worth pursuing.
>
> Actually, I will save a partition on my HDD to try a 64bit OS. But this is
> really at the end of my to-do list.
Understood :-) probably the wisest course of action if you're not used to
Vista. If you buy Vista 32bit OEM when you get to it the product key will
also work with a 64 bit version of the same class of OS and vice-versa.
Legally you can't have both 64bit and 32 bit versions of Vista using the
same product key installed on the same machine at the same time, but if you
can get hold of the other version's media, you can use your product key
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Huey