CS4 experience with win 7 vs Vista (64Bit OS versions)

[Tracy Peterson]

I am actually finding the opposite, that win 7 is working faster and smoother than vista or even XP.

Tracy Peterson
http://www.onetwomany.com

[Mike Velte]

Describe your hard drive situation and where are your scratch discs and your source video.

[Tracy Peterson]

That’s a great point. Mine are on a raid array, speed tested at 310MBps. That might be helping me out.

Tracy Peterson
http://www.onetwomany.com

[Jake Williams]

I am running with external USB storage for my scratch drives while I wait for my caldigit RAID to arrive. I know the USB drive is a problem I am just surprised by the performance gap between the two OS’s under the same editing conditions.

Also have a matrox mxo2 mini for realtime preview running.

Jake Williams

[John Frey]

Jake, I have several self built quadcore workstations with raid arrays that work very well with Vista 64 when using Premiere CS4. I have hesitated in upgrading to Windows 7. Let us know if you resolve the performance issue. Also, can you tell us how you have your Matrox Mini set up(capture and/or display) and how well it is working for you?

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[Tim Kolb]

…are there drivers that are holdouts from 64 bit Vista?

I wonder if there is something in there that likes Vista (or is simply made for Vista) and doesn’t like W7?

The Matrox has Windows 7 drivers, correct?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Brian Louis]

[Tim Kolb] “The Matrox has Windows 7 drivers”

Supposed to have , I run a mini with Win7HomePremium64 on a laptop with CS4 with no problems, You need to use Matrox Mini software ver2 with CS4 ver4.2, in the release notes for ver 2 it states support for win7 Pro or Ultimate, but I’m running win7 HP with no problems.