No Vista = No upgrade

I just found out about this Update and I'm interested in the workflow enhancements. However I cannot run it on my 3 year old DAW running Vista 64? 

I can appreciate the effort that goes into making sure your software runs on older? operating systems but you've sliced to close to the bone and thats 120 bucks less your getting from me...

Yes I read that "It should be compatible" comment here and there but that's not going to be a comfort if it does not run well. My machine runs great and I do love Sonar but this sucks... 

others use it with vista,currently *BUT* they recommend using it with win 7-8 ..   did you write an email to Microsoft ? remember it's them that have changed things a tad with windows 8. thats not in control of cakewalk..

4 years is the "normal" life cycle for a pc.. either pretty much. Although a family member has had their xp for 10+ and is moaning I told them they will have to upgrade/change before june 2014...

video / audio / animation work as standard for years has demanded an up to date pc to get the most of out of. It's a niche market in that respect and most see that as a "taken" unless they don't upgrade. 

Apple in the past wanted you to buy a new machine to run the latest version of logic.

say a cpu killing / amazing sounding vst .. e.g u-he diva .. so you gonna complain to them about their plugin being too resource hungry for your pc ?

if I removed the cob webs off my atari st / c-lab I can still use it to make music.. even though it's 18(?)years old now I guess. just obviously it don't record audio / use vst's.. and if the colour scheme brigade got a look at the screen they'd really moan ;-) (it's monochrome)

look at it this way, at least you know NOW, *BEFORE* buying.. steinberg stitched me up *AFTER* I'd upgraded regarding the "compatibility" of dsp factory in the past.

John: thank you !!

There are folks running X2 on VISTA. Just depends on having drivers for your hardware available.

I am not sure about hardware but so far the only Win 7 only software I have had problems with is the 64 version of BFD Eco. The installer has been designed not to run on Vista. But if you manually extract the 64 bit DLL from the installer file with WinRAR and put it in the VST folder it works perfectly.

FXExpansion has taken a very cautious approach, I appreciate Cakewalk and NI not knobbeling their installers and letting the user take the risk.

Anderton


I run Vista-64, with ALL updates, on my PC Audio Labs laptop. I haven't changed it because it works. Anyway, I don't know that much about the innards of operating systems, but someone who does told me that the last updates to Vista-64 essentially replaced blocks of it with Win 7 code, and that a fully updated Vista is very much like Win 7.

I see more and more gear that says it doesn't support Vista-64, but my experience has been that if it supports Win 7-64, it will run on my laptop. Again, I make no guarantees, this is purely data you can file under "Well, so far so good."

This is really good to know Craig. I've been debating on getting X2 as I don't want it to just collect dust if it wasn't going to work well on my Vista 32bit sys.....(I'd rather first build a 64bit machine to house X2). This bit of info changes the whole outlook........Thanks!! 

Vista 64 and X2 works very well together. I haven't noticed any performance quirks - actually the opposite - it's robust on my machine.

Windows Vista 32 bit here, works nicely........so far

I am running x2 on vista 32 bit with curren updates on service pack 2 ... No problems here ...


I imagine within the next year I will migrate on over to windows 8 .... I have a Amd quad with 4 gigs of ram .... (3 point what ever in reality) 

Bu everything works great ... So I am in no hurry 


By summer - ish 2013 I'll be running windows 8 on a self built super computer I imagine ... I'll take vista to there 


Just a tid bit for everyone 


Mooch loves everyone 


Don't be hatin 

MelodicJimmy


I don't know why anyone would refuse to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, but whatever. 

I would say the reason is money. Times are tight and lots of folks have no jobs or are under employed. Spending 100 bucks on x2 is one thing .... Spending 200 more to move to windows 7 when windows 8 is supposed to be released in October is another ....


Money don't grow on trees and I just filed bankruptcy 




That would be my guess ..... 




But as you say ....whatever 

  Mooch, yeah, good point about Windows 8 coming out soon. I'm going to take a guess and say that these same people won't get Windows 8, either. Just a hunch. As far as money, yeah, I understand. I was lucky enough to have a friend that had a family pack of Windows 7 and he offered me one of the upgrades for free, which was nice of him. I didn't realize an upgrade from Vista to W7 was $200. I guess I've gotten spoiled by Cakewalk's upgrade prices! :)

MelodicJimmy


  Mooch, yeah, good point about Windows 8 coming out soon. I'm going to take a guess and say that these same people won't get Windows 8, either. Just a hunch. As far as money, yeah, I understand. I was lucky enough to have a friend that had a family pack of Windows 7 and he offered me one of the upgrades for free, which was nice of him. I didn't realize an upgrade from Vista to W7 was $200. I guess I've gotten spoiled by Cakewalk's upgrade prices! :)

I don't know why you care so much about our OS decisions but I build my own machines. I have done so for a very long time. I also know about OSs. Probably more than you do. I have run just about every OS there is or ever has been. I go back before there was DOS. Telling us what to run when you know nothing about us or our machines is presumptuous at the least. And simply bad manners. It is not up to you. Nor is it about money. Its what I in particular wish to do. Hope that meets with your approval.

 

Hold off on Win 7 and just get win 8 in October.
It will be a $39.99 USD download if you are a currently registered XP, Vista, or Win 7 user.
I'm running the Release Preview version of win 8 now with no problems on X2.