kennywtelejazz
When I first got X3 I had placed it on a Win 8 64 machine ...ran it that way for a year or so ...
Then I did an in place Win 10 upgrade on the same computer and went from Win 8 to Win 10 64H E..
X3 worked like a champ ...
X3 PE works fine in Win 10 64 ...Honestly at the time I've never had it so good...
I held out for a while as SPlat was coming out with updates that had features that I wanted ..
Then I jumped on SPlat a year plus late ....I noticed right off the bat that SPlat was setup to work great with Win 10
It was pretty common knowledge that Noel and Cakewalk were working closely w MS.. to integrate SONAR w Win 10 ..
Someday you may want to pick up SPlat ...Cakewalk keeps optimizing SONAR for that OS ...
In the mean time X3 is still a very good version of SONAR to have ... I still have it on the machine I mentioned ...
Kenny
That's good to note then! My next build is WAY more 'modern' and powerful than my current 10-yr-old system., so hopefully X3 will be EVEN MORE stable than it is now, if all goes well. It's been absolutely impressive on Windows 7 thus far, even running with really good latency and minimal dropouts and crashes, even for stuff that's a decade old. I may well look into moving to a new edition of SONAR, but that likely won't be for a year or two.
After all this research and time spent in computers though, I'm finding that really the only things that are going to need major upgrades with the changing times/requirements of software are motherboards and CPU's (as well as, of course, drivers, OS, and some mechanical parts that breakdown after heavy use), as long as weird proprietary stuff doesn't suddenly shift the whole market over to new types of connectors and stuff. But even then, even if it's old - if it runs fast, it runs fast!
(Don't quote me on this. Obviously things can always be upgraded, but basic components like wireless cards and stuff can stay in-place for decades or more without problems)