Shining Mirage Posted June 8, 2007 Posted June 8, 2007 Hey all, I was looking at the specifications of Frooty Loops and all of the corporate stuff and it metioned nothing about being compliant with Windows Vista. I'm reallly hesitant to get some random laptop to dump funds on and swap parts for and Frooty Loops not work on it. Can I ask all of you to cross reference and possibly fill me in to if FL works on Vista? Thanks. Quote
Kanthos Posted June 8, 2007 Posted June 8, 2007 It should work on Vista. However, why you want to be using Vista for music at this point is beyond me. Get a new laptop, replace Vista with XP 32-bit. Also: this lists Vista as one of the target OSes for FL Studio. Quote
Shining Mirage Posted June 8, 2007 Author Posted June 8, 2007 Yeah, I figured as much. I just didn't want to be the lazy bum that I am and just try to save up the funds for a Vista'd laptop. I don't want any more hassle than what I have now. I might as well just find some spare parts and go from there. Thanks a lot. Quote
Kanthos Posted June 9, 2007 Posted June 9, 2007 Well, depending on your patience and the kind of music you want to make, the computer you have now might be alright. How good is it? All I was trying to say is that you can get better performance on the same machine with XP, but if you can't use it for some reason, Vista will work. Quote
avaris Posted June 9, 2007 Posted June 9, 2007 I've used both versions of Vista 32 and 64 bit. FL Studio will run fine but it's not built to take advantage of a 64bit OS. Vista is a RAM whore. Honestly since FL doesn't have any freeze functions you need all the resources you can get. I agree with Kanthos to go with XP. Quote
Shining Mirage Posted June 9, 2007 Author Posted June 9, 2007 Figured as much. I just... "re-installed" XP 32-bit onto my 2 year old system and I was just wondering about since I don't have much on it -- except errors from its previous user's continuous fuck-ups, I was wondering about just going for a new system, or just simply gutting the entire thing. Programs run fluently. That's not the problem. I tried adding Flash 8 w/ crack (a perfect one, mind you) and it just became inordinately slow. Frooty Loops is a program that I've been looking into for a while now and I was wondering about the key schematics so I could possibly avoid what happened to me in regards to Flash 8 from happening again. But I'm a lazy dude. Personally, I don't feel like dealing with Vista right now. The whole RAM whoring thing is a small blessing and a massive curse that I don't have the patience for it. Thanks for your support and the first chance that I get, I'll try to bump up whatever I concoct to a 64-bit XP. It's gonna take a while... but I'll get it done eventually. Quote
Kanthos Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 A 64-bit OS gives you no advantage for music production at this time. No one's writing 64-bit versions of VSTs and so on yet, and as far as I know, there's no other significant advantage of a 64-bit OS. Quote
Shining Mirage Posted June 10, 2007 Author Posted June 10, 2007 A 64-bit OS gives you no advantage for music production at this time. No one's writing 64-bit versions of VSTs and so on yet, and as far as I know, there's no other significant advantage of a 64-bit OS. Ouch... ...Not to self, log off E-bay... ...immediately... Quote
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