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So over xmas I lost a valued friend, my fujitsu siemens laptop. Have bought a replacement - Acer Intel core 2 duo, 2 gb ram etc. Nice machine. Unfortunately have had to go with Vista home premium as XP appears not to be an option anymore. 
Any way, my M Audio firewire Audiophile is clashing badly with vista and refuses to install, anyone had similar issues with the swap to vista? Or can anyone recommend a firewire / usb audio interface that works well with vista?
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26-12-2007 20:30 |
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BattleDrone
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The available Vista driver for that card is still beta and it's over 6 month old 
That's not very pretty work they show there.
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27-12-2007 10:49 |
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Binary Havoc
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27-12-2007 18:07 |
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BattleDrone
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Lame shit going on. I'm no Vista fan at all, many people say that they don't see the "big advantage" in using Vista. You can install XP on the machine, might as well try it...
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28-12-2007 11:39 |
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I actually bought a seperate license of XP and erased Vista so I can finally use my audio apps on my laptop.
I have waited for nearly a year now for proper support for Vista, but a month ago I finally gave up and bought an XP license. If I knew it in advance I would have never bought a laptop with vista preinstalled.
Fuck it, XP works great, it's much faster in all respects, everything works as expected and you don't get any useless warnings from the OS.
Now I'm surprised that I actually lasted 10 months on Vista. It's such a bitch. It's so fucking slow, even basic stuff like file copying or opening files etc. It seems like it wants you to wait for 2 seconds for every stupid little action that you take. It refuses to run certain programs at startup. It basically does not allow you to use YOUR computer the way you want to.
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28-12-2007 14:47 |
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BattleDrone
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Despite all this (I hear very little positive feedback about it) Microsoft push it into the business as if it were the best thing that ever happened to pc's 
I agree on what you did Chron, but imagine just how sick it is... having to spend money on being allowed to downgrade your pc. And in the near future even that will no longer bee possible.
I went to The Music Store (Cologne) this morning and talked to some peeps there. They always advice people to buy an xp licence to work around driver shit. I bought my (desktop)pc at a very little shop and I told the guy who built it that I would only buy it if I could still get it with XP...
If some good DAW would come available for Linux I'd switch right now. That fucking Microsoft dominance has been there long enough. They either ruin other software by pumping huge amounts of cash into software development and then give it away for free (browser, virtual machine software, Software development,...) and once they own the market the don't continue development.
No wonder Apple is steadily gaining users.
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28-12-2007 15:15 |
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Binary Havoc
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I tell you what the biggest fuckin problem with this is. I wanted to buy a machine running XP, I was totally happy with XP and my set up was workin really well.
As there were literally no machines for sale running XP, I went for the "best" version of Vista running on the best machine I could afford. Vista Home Premium 64 bit. Foolishly I thought that as vista had been out for so long now, I might find a few problems remaining but nothing as basic as 64 bit audio driver support from a company the size of M audio.
It now transpires that if i'd got a 32 bit version of vista, M audio have the 32 bit drivers available and I would at least be able to carry on producing with my current audio interface. As I went for the "better" quality Operating system I have effectively shot myself in the foot and now have to wait for M Audio to come up with 64 bit drivers or go out and spend more money buying a new interface from someone who does have 64 bit audio driver support for vista
Bunch of arse
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28-12-2007 16:11 |
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BattleDrone
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Couldn't sum it all up any better dude.
Tough luck. Go for XP...
Vista Strarter supports 32 bit, but it's so lame.
Just a thought: Did you try to download the most recent xp driver .exe from the m-audio site. Right click and choose properties and choose "run in xp mode" or something like that. It's not perfect, but it's better than no drivers at all.
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28-12-2007 16:47 |
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