Windows 7 32 bit vs WinXP

[890]

1) Can someone tell me if there is any technical advantage or reason , appart from the new beautiful graphics, for migrating to Windows 7 32 bit.

I´m speaking about: a)Efficiency of the audio & MIDI engine b) enhacements in the audio quality c) Stability d) multiclient ASiO e) access to more than 2GB of RAM per application d) memory and disks management e) any other thing related with enhacements in the audio-MIDI engine.

2) Can anybody explain me clearly which are the advantages of to format the HDs in NTFS. Personally I found this file system slower and unpractical due all of this security features that force me all time to use in the command line "takeown" for to modify the constant advises of "access denied" or "are you running as administrator ?" or the multiple attemps of different programs for to connect to Internet that appear everywhere.

When I speak about advantages, I´m thinking ONLY from the point of view of the musical use of the machine, not about Internet, comunications, beautiful graphic, unpractical Windoes explorers and any other funny entertainments for kids and young programmers.

PS: SonicCore´s we continue waiting the W7 64bit drivers, our life is finite like our patience

[pollux]

Hi,

I installed Win 7 32 bit on my DAW and (in my case) it works better than XP, without having done any tweak (yet ).I tested several *HEAVY* projects that would max out the 4 cores, and crash the PC on XP, and they run without a glitch on Win 7, whilst the processor usage is lower.
I've never been a Vista fan, but IMHO, Win 7 is definetly a step forward.

There are several under the hood optimizations, like removing low level kernel and memory locks and other stuff.

here and here are a couple of articles that explain it better than I could


Have fun!

[firubbi]

hi pollux,
are you running scope v4.0? do you think it will run with win7?(32bit)
thanks

[pollux]

hi pollux,
are you running scope v4.0? do you think it will run with win7?(32bit)
thanks

I'm running Scope 5 with an XITE.
Scope 4.0 will not run on Win 7 nor Vista (driver issue)

[Jah Servant]

well I think that, like always, it's a question of whether or not a person wants to incorporate new things into their setup, eventually there will be things out that won't work on an older OS. If you have everything you want and are happy with it then stick with what you have. I don't know if there'll ever be a big significant difference from the OS upgrades, it's usually gradual improvements that add up over time. There will only be so much difference from consecutive upgrades, for me it's about being able to move into the future, being ready for things that are yet to come.

[Refrochia]

FAT32 cant handle files larger than 4Gb whereas NTFS can

[valis]

Good thing that Xp32 supports NTFS!

Win7 32bit should perform on par with Xp32 if you've got modern hardware (Core2), and can be tuned just as well as a stripped down XP (but isn't necessary on modern hardware imo, just disable disk indexing & autodefrag on your audio project/sample drives.)