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2016/08/29 08:31:57
cheez
I'm been out of the DAW scene for a few years and now contemplating on getting back to it. I used to dual boot my system for DAW all the time. Considering the systems nowadays + Windows 10, are people still dual booting their system and run their DAW on a separate boot partition?
2016/08/29 14:16:14
jbraner
Hi cheers,
I still dual boot. I don't know if you really have to anymore, but I do ;-)
2016/08/31 01:38:40
Rob[at]Sound-Rehab
I gave up on dual boot when everything (i.e. plugs that I use plus utility software) finally become available as 64bit. I actually retired the last dual boot system when I migrated everything to win10 in June 2016
2016/08/31 19:32:18
cheez
Did you notice any noticeable difference when you moved from dual booting to single boot?
2016/09/01 05:02:28
Rob[at]Sound-Rehab
cheez
Did you notice any noticeable difference when you moved from dual booting to single boot?


no, but to be honest I did not use the 32 bit installation a whole lot - that was more of a fall-back option and a mean to test if some issues were related to the mix of 32 + 64 bit plugs.
 
for almost a year everything on my system that I really use is 64bit (I only have a few minor things like fantom control remaining as 32 bit, but I rarely use that) ... and since monthly updates got so reliable that I update my system more often than the previous twice a year interval, it made no point to keep doing that for a dual boot ...
 
 
2016/09/01 20:21:20
cheez
The reason for dual booting is not to use a 32 bit OS alongside a 64 bit. The argument has always been to have a clean registry, minimal background running processes, no antivirus, no eye candy, slim and an optimized system.
2016/09/02 04:22:00
Rob[at]Sound-Rehab
cheez
The reason for dual booting is not to use a 32 bit OS alongside a 64 bit. The argument has always been to have a clean registry, minimal background running processes, no antivirus, no eye candy, slim and an optimized system.




I understand. With PCs dedicated to DAW only work I got that anyway ...
 
Actually, staying away from dubious soundcards, ASIO4ALL plus having a dedicated DAW only PC is key to happiness
2016/09/02 10:24:44
Shambler
Still dual booting, both drives 250GB and Win10 64bit.
 
I wouldn't want to risk running SONAR on the same drive which has 3rd party firewall/virus/spyware blocker and steam installed on it.
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