Win98se vs winXP - pulsar2/gigastudio/logic

music251 · Post by **music251** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:42 am

Hi!

After a long period of no composing, I've now decided to start up again, using gigastudio, logic audio and my pulsar2 cards.
A couple of years ago, when I did compose, I still used win98se because it was faster and less ram-intensive.
I was wondering, should I go for win98se or winXP now?

Also: Last time I used pulsar 3.1c. Any great changes in 4.0?

This may seem like a silly question, but please remember I have not been using music software for more 2 years...

THanks!

My system:
AMD64:3500+
1024mb ram
A8N-SLI Deluxe
Geforce 6800GT
Samsung Spinpoint 250gb, and Raptor 74gb

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symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:36 am

Definitely XP with that kind of hardware.

As for SFP 4.0, it's mostly some aesthetics changes, and it's a little more stable and loads faster.

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Grok · Post by **Grok** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:53 am

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Also: Last time I used pulsar 3.1c. Any great changes in 4.0?
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Some technical optimisations with 4.0...

>>> Works well with P4 HT enabled (3.1 wasn't very HT friendly !!!...).
>>> Scope 4.0 automatically set the PCI latencies for the installed Scope cards.

There are for sure other technical improvements that I haven't noticed...

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alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:24 pm

W98se can't handle more than 512Mb of ram, so....

Post by **garyb** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:45 pm

yeah, xp works great, just turn off all the visuals....

music251 · Post by **music251** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:38 am

Hi!

Thanks for the answers.
So Logic 5.5, scope 4 and gigastudio should work just as smoothly in winxp as win98se?
Hmm, guess I better start using winXP then.

Again, thanks!

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:20 am

On 2005-08-16 10:53, Grok wrote:
(...)
Also: Last time I used pulsar 3.1c. Any great changes in 4.0?
(...)
Some technical optimisations with 4.0...

>>> Works well with P4 HT enabled (3.1 wasn't very HT friendly !!!...).

unfortunally gigastudio doesn't support HT.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:17 am

Grok probably meant that the problems due to HT's pure presence would be significantly reduced - which would indeed be an argument pro 4.0 as it makes installation more simple in many cases.
Other than that HT is a nonsense for non-optimized code anyway, which I doubt that Giga has

cheers, Tom