my main question is in the topic but i have aslo another question.
is it take more ram than 8.5?
8.5 takes 200 000 Ko memory without project opened.
im with xp .. ill install 32bit if there is.
ty

You may install X2 right next to 8.5... they'll be independent of each other.

You may want to make a disc image of your current system drive as a reference.


best regards,
mike

ok for independant when installing but im worried more about unsintalling.
maybe it will uninstall some things belong to 8.5? U SUREEEEEEEE it will not ? lol
cant make an image of 500Go lol where sonar 8.5 is installed (D:).
but i can make C: image (Windows system files).

I did almost exactly that: installed X1 next to 8.5, then uninstalled X1 after a few months. Not only did I have no problems with 8.5 afterward, but I retained a couple of updated plugins that had been included with the X1 install. So I actually benefited from the X1 install even after deciding to bag it and go back to 8.5.

I have 8.5 and X1 on a win xp 32 bitt setup, it has never given me any issues, then a standalone win7 32 bitt of x-2.. it too works very well.no crash's ever !!

I did have issues when uninstalling X1 trial last spring.

I tried to install the 8.5.3 update but no joy. And could not install the original file cuz updates had been installed.

So, I uninstalled 8.5.3 to be able to install from the beginning. I did not install ANYTHING ELSE but the core program. Hence any updated vst, sample,... files were maintained.

Why not restore with image?  It was more than 30 days. No way to know what all I had changed via win updates, driver updates,...

ok ty all. ill make c: image and ill try. i hope x2 is worth of it. sorry my english is a lil bad.
what about ressourse mem it takes?