Having major issues with Vista 32bit

[Spacey]

Sometimes it see's the uad-1 cards...sometimes (mostly it doesn't). Just wanted to know if UA knew of this and were looking into it

 

[Fundy]

Personally, I wouldn't recommend using Windows Vista (if you can help it), especially if you use sound and professional sound products. Not being sceptical however I usually wait a few months and let Microsoft iron out the Gremlins first. It's the new driver architechture which has really buggered things up for most drivers.

As for UA, I would suspect the developers are working on the code. Without sounding like a \"rank-kiss-the-ass\" Universal Audio so far, have been good support. Not like other companies who don't give a s***.

 

[project]

are you forgetting to hit F8 and disable sig inforcement?

just replaced my motherboard from Asus P5WD2 to P5B because i am getting a core2 Duo CPU in a few weeks and Vista installed the drivers without a hitch if i were using XP it would have required a reinstall.

Vista (64 at least) kicks major ass!

 

[imdrecordings]

are you forgetting to hit F8 and disable sig inforcement?

just replaced my motherboard from Asus P5WD2 to P5B because i am getting a core2 Duo CPU in a few weeks and Vista installed the drivers without a hitch if i were using XP it would have required a reinstall.

Vista (64 at least) kicks major ass!

Project,
Are you seeing a performance boost, from Vista?

 

[greno]

I'm running Vista 32 and for the most part things are running well. I did have Cubase lock up once when loading a project with UAD plugins. Reloaded Cubase and gave me a warning that the card was in use. Closed cubase, ctrl-alt-del to kill background cubase process, restarted cubase and everything was fine.

What do you mean to disable sig inforcement? I know how to get to the BIOS, but I'm not sure what that option is.

 

[Spacey]

I'm actually getting the motherboard or vista doesn't actually see the uad-1 cards. In Xp they show up and work, in Vista sometimes they do, and most of the time it says\"lost connection with card\".

This is with Vista 32 not Vista 64

 

[Middleman]

The F8 procedure is for Vista 64 where there are few 64 bit drivers that are not beta.

In 32 bit, that's a mystery. I know there is an issue with more than 2GB of ram and the UAD1. That's about the only help I can provide.

 

[project]

Middleman, no Vista 64 requires signed drivers beta or not. i didnt know that the 32bit version did not require sig's but i am running a 64bit machine.

as far as a performance boost goes i dont think any jump in any windows OS has seen a boost in performance. and i have been using windows since windows for workgroups 3.11 (yes a very long time).

on the other hand i have not noticed a performance loss. projects that used to push my system to the edge still push it the same. so as far as DAW performance goes there is no boost, but i didnt expect one. and there is no loss either.

when i finally put 6GB of RAM i will see some and when cubase becomes a 64bit app i expect some.

Other general windows uses have seen much better performance. applications you use often load WAY faster etc. to many other improvements to mention.

 

[Fundy]

I'm just wondering if the 3GB switch will work on Vista 32. Anyway I have that added to my start-up on XP Pro.

 

[Middleman]

Middleman, no Vista 64 requires signed drivers beta or not.

Huh, what?

Tell that to my Lynx card, UAD and tranzport. Non of these are signed and they don't work in Vista 64 without bypassing the signed driver feature. They are 64 bit by the way but are either Vista beta or XP64 based.

Also, if you have a UAD card, you may want to back off that 6GB of ram. The UAD is not working with greater than 2GB in Vista. Verifed by UA as a work around in Vista.

Fundy, if you get a chance report back on that. I would be curious if the UAD card works under Vista 32 with more than 2GB of ram.

 

[Akis]

Middleman, I believe you and Project are saying the same thing. Perhaps Project should have phrased it like this:

Middleman, no, Vista 64 requires signed drivers, beta or not.

:wink:

 

[Middleman]

Wow, Akis, you get the award for creative punctuation. It does sound better that way. Thanks.

 

[Dan Duskin]

Can someone run a quick low-latency performance test in vista? Theoredically, we should get better performance at ultra low latencies, because of the new way vista deals with irq requests.

 

[Big Harpe]

Can someone run a quick low-latency performance test in vista? Theoredically, we should get better performance at ultra low latencies, because of the new way vista deals with irq requests.

Sorry Dan. can't here.. It doesn't work with my Audio cards, MIDI hardware, Powercore, Cubase SX2, won't allow installation of the latest Nvidia GeForce drivers (from http://www.NVidia.com), Adobe Reader (won't install), BitTirrent, Limewire; hmm. I could go on but won't. Email and Internet, that's about it. They dumbed it down and put on the cuffs
A real winner Vista 32.
Have fun.

 

[project]

Adobe reader does install look for help about how to on the adobe site.
Bittorrent works here, ATI radeon x850 XT drivers work, all MOTU cards work audio and MIDI. all games i have tried work too. Battlefield 2142, World of warcraft Half life 2 etc... Cubase 4 works. Reason 3.04 works.

Vista 64 home premium.

 

[Spacey]

Everything works for me on Vista 32 ati graphics card, except the uad-1's lol

 

[project]

Spacey do you have UAC turned off?

 

[Spacey]

No idea? What's UAC and where can I find it on vista 32

 

[project]

UAC is User Account Control and the UAD-1 beta drivers will not work with UAC turned on. go to Control Panel\\User Accounts and Family Safety\\User Accounts then click on turn on/off user account control and turn it off.

 

[Fundy]

I don't think Vista is a lost cause, it's just early days yet to be scrapping XP. If anything, I would be dual-booting the two OS's until most of the issues have been resolved.