i just bought a new laptop, samsung 530, intel dual-core 2.1hz, 4gb, windows 7 32 bit, i also have windows xp, so my question is, what do you think is better for producing 7 or xp?
im working with ableton 8.1, fl 9.
windows 7 or xp
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Rock solid on my system, Win 7, quadcore pc, 4 gig ram. All my older stuff that I ran on XP ( which was my previous OS ) runs great too, no problems at all. 32 bit programs/plugins go into a program files called x86 but the compatibility is fine.
The ONLY thing I have had issues with are the drivers for an MAudio 24/96 card, they have yet to create a win7 driver and I am having to use a Vista 64bit one which doesn't allow the machine to turn off - I have to manually press the button.
The ONLY thing I have had issues with are the drivers for an MAudio 24/96 card, they have yet to create a win7 driver and I am having to use a Vista 64bit one which doesn't allow the machine to turn off - I have to manually press the button.
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If you have 4gb of ram user the 64gb version of Windows 7 as it can use all the memory instead of 3.5gb.
Personally I like windows 7 a lot but I find I have to make the icons smaller as they are much bigger than the default size in XP.
Personally I like windows 7 a lot but I find I have to make the icons smaller as they are much bigger than the default size in XP.
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The only thing I'm having trouble with and it's a problem with my lappie is Win7 Aero is disabled when i launch Live 8 and the color scheme hogs my window sizing of Live, sometimes I lose the toolbar at the top as if I hit F11 in Live, but I have not done so.monophunk wrote:yes ableton supprts windows 7 since 8.0.8, i installed yesterday and it works good till now....i dont know so much people on 7 (most of them are with mac or xp) so i dont know about any problems or crashes on 7 with other plugins or applications
Anyone have any tips?
It's not too bad, i know plenty of keyboard shortcuts without it, but... still a drag