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Topic: reinstalled my gig rig with x64 finally.

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spent more than 12 hours reinstalling my gig rig today. what an arse on. firstly i planned to just go from vista to 7 x86. the first issue i hit was i had graphic problems that caused the screen to only output in B&W. took about an hour to research the robem and fix it. then i ran belarc advisor and realised for the third time since purchasing the machine that it was x64 capable.

sooo, i thought balls to it.. and decided to make the transition over to x64 so i tried doing an upgrade only to find out you have to do a fresh install. upon doing the fresh install i landed on a major problem id never encountered before. i deleted the partitions as normal and then the installation stated. "no drives found, please provide a driver" or something along those lines. i tried several times and still got nothing.

searched for a few hours for drivers and found nothing. even putting the drive in a caddy for formatting wouldnt work.

i decided to use active kildisk and recover the partitions as the drive still showed in the bios. the patrtition recovery never worked. i eventually, after reading a shed load of posts clearly written by retards who never ever had anything real information, decided to find some partition software that i could boot from disc.

i found partition wizard and managed to allocate a partition by booting from a cd. the install then put up another error message. luckily this time it was only a matter of deleting the partition and creating a new one with the instllation wizard. something that should have been available when i first deleted the partitions.

he installation ran smoothly untill i booted windows and discovered there was tons of stuff that either didnt work or was messed up. a quick visit to acer and a few driver downloads put everything right. now i just have to sleep and them tomorrow reinstall my programmes. well most of them, i already did VDJ..got to prioritise you see. oh and winrar.

now its 3am and i got to turn the gig rig off at 2.30 i started worko n it at around 1pm. man x64 better be worth the effort.

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Posted Wed 27 Jul 11 @ 9:10 pm
take it from a pc tech & DJ windows 7 64bit is worth it. the best thing is (ram) 64bit allows you to max out your ram. more=faster better running system. also after i did a fresh install i (ONLY) installed the programs that i need. the less programs you have installed the better. i got VDJ,serato itch,microsoft word,firefox ect,ect.
 
installs on mine will be,

VDJ
Ableton
Cubase
Corel video studio
Audacity
Winrar
Webcam
Avira
MalwareBytes
Hercules
Trakturd
Spotify
MS Office
Klite
Dojotech Recorder

maybe

skype and email but not really fussed.
 
I just made the move to Win7 x64 this week as well. I like it, smooth and responsive.
Of course I also upgraded the hardware; new Dell Studio 1745 lappy.
Glad I was fortunate enough to skip the whole Vista fiasco. (shivers)

Good luck to ya Blu.

T
 
Is there any advantage in an 64Bit OS for VDJ application only ? Knowing that VDJ is a 32bit app.

Maybe Im wrong about VDJ being only being a 32bit (don't see anything thats say otherwise).
 
Magic, you're correct that VDJ is 32 bit. The main benefit comes from hardware I think, RAM and CPU are more efficient on x64 systems.
Or I might just be talking out my arse. idk
 
Right - 32bit apps can only see a little over 3gb of Ram but if you are running a 64 bit OS each 32 bit app can be assigned its maximum amount as long as the machine has enough installed. So instead of having to portion 4gb across all the different apps you can install the max amount maybe 16gb so you can run multiple apps at their maximum memory footprint at the same time.
 
TDB: what are the specs of your Dell? Let me know how it works out for you.

I am considering an upgrade soon as my current Dell Inspiron E1705 is 4 1/2 years old. I am still on XP and thankfully no issues yet with the machine.
 
JayMSY wrote :
TDB: what are the specs of your Dell? Let me know how it works out for you.



Dell Studio 1745
Intel Core Duo T6600 2.2Ghz
4 GB RAM
500 GB HDD
Integrated video, but it looks good output to my projector and to a 32" Samsung LCD
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1


It's a very good laptop, does the job. Screen looks great, on-board speakers sound good; JBL's with a cute lil subwoofer on the bottom side.
I believe the 1745 was designed with audio in mind. I picked it up cheap on craigslist, it's last summer's model but I'm very happy.
 
jbart19 wrote :
Right - 32bit apps can only see a little over 3gb of Ram but if you are running a 64 bit OS each 32 bit app can be assigned its maximum amount as long as the machine has enough installed. So instead of having to portion 4gb across all the different apps you can install the max amount maybe 16gb so you can run multiple apps at their maximum memory footprint at the same time.



so when running 32 bit os, the OS uses let say 3GB of RAM (you have a total of 4GB installed) VDJ can only use whats left over (1GB).

With 64 bit OS, the OS uses let say 3GB of RAM (you have 16GB installed) VDJ will use 3+GB of RAM and you still have 10GB for other APP while VDJ is running.


I may have to buy some PC parts and give this 64bit Win7 OS a try before ditching my main 32bit win7 rig.

I want to give VDJ more RAM for loading Video, longer songs (and hopefully the msg about not enought to load will be gone) etc... related stuff.
 
The Magic.DJ wrote :
Is there any advantage in an 64Bit OS for VDJ application only ? Knowing that VDJ is a 32bit app.

Maybe Im wrong about VDJ being only being a 32bit (don't see anything thats say otherwise).


64bit = more ram (my laptop is maxed out to 8GB) more ram = faster running system
 
maxing out the ram is my next step i think. i researched overclocking the cpu but it will probably more worth while just upgrading the chipset
 


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