I'm thinking about upgrading from X-1 Producer to X-2 Producer but I noticed in the System Requirements that it calls for Windows 7 or 8. Does anyone have it running on WinXP ( SP3 32 bit) ? X-1 runs fine here so I assume X-2 will as well ?

X2 may run on XP but X2a wont install. 

John is right x2a will not work at all. here is something else to keep in mind. You won't get any support from cakewalk using XP and Sonar x2 together.

Well bloody 'ell.......When faced with days upon days of work rebuilding my software library the desire to upgrade to Win 7/8 quickly goes away. Everything is working perfectly here so I have no real need to "upgrade" my OS for the time being..... Thanks for the info guys...guess I'll skip X-2 for the near future.....shame as it looks quite interesting.

I'm kind of in the same boat, Teksonic.
X2 does look interesting, But I'm on XP.
Some day I'll get a new machine, but for now, I am quite content working on a clean, stable, and crash-free XP system.
I know sooner or later the ol' girl is going to cough up a fur ball, but there's nothing I have asked of X1(or Sonar 8, or SHS6XL) that I haven't been able to do. I'm ok with that.

Windows 7 is ROCK SOLID.

Fine if you don't want to spend the money, but if you think XP is more stable than 7... that is crazy talk!

I have no doubt that's true.
But I don't remember what a crash looks like, and food trumps a new computer.

hockeyjx

Windows 7 is ROCK SOLID.

Fine if you don't want to spend the money, but if you think XP is more stable than 7... that is crazy talk!

Depends on the context.  For running Sonar, both XP and W7 are probably equally stable.  However, some of the plugins that worked well on XP misbehave on W7.

  It's not just the OS it's drivers etc and as mentioned above not all plugins play well with Win 7/8 or have 64 bit versions or work well with a Bit Bridge.......

i know what you mean , drivers, some plug ins, exc. but you would be surprised how stable 7 really is.im on 8 now and its very stable.
i usually get the developers preview for new OS's keep up changes.
theres nothing worse than being left behind and learning a new os on the fly.
not to mention ssoner or later you will be forced in to a new os.
when ms stops support for xp then security will become an even bigger issue than it is now for xp users.

your probably holding back an upgrade though for like 1 or 2 things.its something to weigh out.