I know Cakewalk does not officially support the Vista OS for X2. Just wondering if anyone here has been successfully using X2 with Vista? I know there had been a few posts regarding the topic in the X2 pre-release days - however I have not seen any further discussions since the release. The sense I got from the pre-release discussions was that the program would be stable with a decent enough computer running at least Vista Home Premium with SP2. Any experiences to report? Thanks!

I have with Vista 64 bit. For me its been very solid. It is not yet as solid as X1Ex D. But very close. I figure when a full patch comes out the last bits will be cleared up. Its very usable.

Quite a few people have been having success running X2 on Vista but support won't be able to help you (or at least not as much). I also read that the big problem with Vista is gonna come when they patch X2 to deal with Win8 and it's touchscreen capabilities and I don't think even the Bakers know what's gonna happen at that point because Win 8 is still a completely new animal. I love Win 7 BTW. It's worth the upgrade to 7. I think 8 is gonna flop. Cheers.

I didn't want to mention John by name but he is one of the main smart dudes who has been running X2 successfully with Vista... and he's all smart and stuff.

Beepster

Quite a few people have been having success running X2 on Vista but support won't be able to help you (or at least not as much). I also read that the big problem with Vista is gonna come when they patch X2 to deal with Win8 and it's touchscreen capabilities and I don't think even the Bakers know what's gonna happen at that point because Win 8 is still a completely new animal. I love Win 7 BTW. It's worth the upgrade to 7. I think 8 is gonna flop. Cheers.

It's been stated by Cakewalk that X2 will not run on anything prior to Windows 7 after you install the first official patch.

So it's time to upgrade to at least Windows 7 gfeel. Or, wait and see if that's true. Sometimes they say one thing, but another ends up happening.

I was always under the impression that Vista and Windows 7 were identical after you installed a ton of patches in Vista ... but I must be wrong.

Beepster


Quite a few people have been having success running X2 on Vista but support won't be able to help you (or at least not as much). I also read that the big problem with Vista is gonna come when they patch X2 to deal with Win8 and it's touchscreen capabilities and I don't think even the Bakers know what's gonna happen at that point because Win 8 is still a completely new animal. I love Win 7 BTW. It's worth the upgrade to 7. I think 8 is gonna flop. Cheers.

I agree to a point. I'm going to go with Win 8 when its ready and I am. But we shall see. I did try Win 8 and although it is not ready yet it did show a great deal of promise with much better core load distribution.

Bub

Beepster

Quite a few people have been having success running X2 on Vista but support won't be able to help you (or at least not as much). I also read that the big problem with Vista is gonna come when they patch X2 to deal with Win8 and it's touchscreen capabilities and I don't think even the Bakers know what's gonna happen at that point because Win 8 is still a completely new animal. I love Win 7 BTW. It's worth the upgrade to 7. I think 8 is gonna flop. Cheers.

It's been stated by Cakewalk that X2 will not run on anything prior to Windows 7 after you install the first official patch.

So it's time to upgrade to at least Windows 7 gfeel. Or, wait and see if that's true. Sometimes they say one thing, but another ends up happening.

I was always under the impression that Vista and Windows 7 were identical after you installed a ton of patches in Vista ... but I must be wrong.

That is a very strong statement about what it will run on. If you could refer me to where CW has stated that I would be very interested.

When I was building the system I was gonna snag Win 7 Ultimate (because Ultimate is better... right?) but then realized it would only be supported by MS until 2015 whereas Home and Pro were supported up until 2018. I went with Pro (it's got the XP mode which I wanted) and I feel pretty secure with my OS. I don't think we even know how long MS will support 8 yet and to me that's just not a gamble I want to take. I've blathered on about this frequently here but it's true. I'm not a betting man. ;-)

That is a very strong statement about what it will run on. If you could refer me to where CW has stated that I would be very interested.

 
I think what Bub is referring to only applies to XP.  In some thread, somewhere, Noel specifically stated that the DLLs in Win8 are not backwards compatible with XP, so chances are that the X2 patch won't even install on XP.   But with Vista I think the main drawback is the lack of touchscreen features because of those same Win8 DLL changes.    But I don't recall Noel ever saying that the X2 patch(es) won't install on Vista.
 

Working fine on Vista at the moment.

Scott

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