Did anybody already installed X2 on XP? I had to rebuild my music computer from ground up after 2 out of 3 hard drives failed, and make a mistake to partition my C drive. Now I have about 6 Gb left on C drive. It is running disk defragment as we talk and will probably free few more Gbs. I uninstalled SP8.5, but still have X1 installed. I am wondering if I need to uninstall X1 before I attempt to install. I do not want to take my chances in case X2 is not working on XP well. X1 never worked well- I had crashes almost daily. While my music computer is 8 years old, it has 3.6 single Pentium and 3 15,000 RPM SCSI hard drives that were replaced less then a year ago. I also had to replace a Motherboard and reinstall the Windows. I should of try to install later OS when I had a chance, but I was told that hardware may not handle it- any way... Should I uninstall X1 to free space? I am worrying about shared plugins folder and other shared utilities that may be damaged by uninstall. I have sound banks for Rapture and Elastic- I do not want to make this already unstable system worse. Any thoughts? Thank you.  

I know it's an obvious answer, but please get a new PC. Windows 8 is out next week and will hopefully be pre-installed on new machines (such as Dell). Put the dog down, even a cheapo Dell PC will fare better.

Oh and no it isn't supported:
http://www.cakewalk.com/page.aspx/Free-SONAR-X2-upgrade

Cheers...

If you insist on XP 32 bit and old school parts, then stick with Sonar 8.5.
$ 500 software doesn't run well on a $50 computer. 

I am looking forward to Windows 8, however, I would like to get new hardware next summer, when they figure out what they actually need to optimize Win. 8. The systems available now are still Win. 7 systems. I do not expect major changes in processors by next summer, but general configurations may improve as manufacturers gain experience building systems for Win 8. I also want to get touch-sensitive monitors, and right now I can not afford it. I am in school and all my money go to pay for tuition. I can not even make music as much as I would like to. In defence of my old computer- It is $4000 Dell Precision workstation. When you buy something at that price, you expect it to work for years. And now it has new motherboard and hard drives. If I could replace the processor, I would. lol. I am not that savy. Just trying to make it till the next summer. It is still nice system. 3.6 clock speed used to cost a lot of money and it doing what it supposed to- I think so- lol. It feels better than my Core duo internet computer. Also I would not make this mistake again to invest that much money in to the workstation. I was pressured to convert to Mac, but their systems are all over 5k for basic configurations- I am not doing it again. I thought- Precision workstation would work forever. Not the case. Acts just like any junky Windows machine. It is frashly reinstalled and tuned now with all support software and drivers- I went trough a nightmare with it, trying to save my music with hard drive failures, and recently- my back up drive failed as well. But that is ok. Got new one. I am having hard time to view this sistem as $50 computer after all investment and repare done on it.  

Stay with 8.5.3 until the summer then. 

You are putting premium gas in a broken down Gremlin d00d.

Pretty sure you will need way more than 6 gig. Just the temp setup files (unpacked from the 02...partx.exe files) use more than that. Can you move your swap file to another partition temporarily?

I have X1 installed- the question was- should I uninstall it before trying X2? To me, the newer, the better- they should improve it, right? And all Windows OSs back- compatable, meaning- they have the same core.

What's the SWAP file? When I uninstalled SP 8.5, I did not get any space. But I am thinking, if I uninstall X1, would I get space? Right now after defrog, I got 9.7 Gb.

However Sock Monkey is right, and so am I. Let go or stick within your limitations.

> When you buy something at that price, you expect it to work for years.
Not for 8 years, and even Windows XP itself is no longer supported by Microsoft. And no it's not worth $4000, Sock Monkeys estimate is far more accurate. So your PC cost $500 a year, you had pretty good value.

And what you've already experienced/written seems reason enough as well.

Let go or continue the pain (or use older version of Sonar as Sock Monkey suggests, but if you do prepare to experience more pain).
Cheers....

I think there was a thread today where someone installed X2 in XP SP3.