XP Service Pack 2 compatibility issues?

[Mike Smith]

I’m lucky enough to have AE 6.5 and PPro 1.5 running and stable on XP with SP2, using firewire and a Decklink card … there may be issues with other capture cards? As I recall, the Matrox RTX100 needs an update (“hotfix”) for SP2 compatibility.

[Ruby Gold]

Thanks for the reponse. Forgive my ignorance, but a capture card is different than a vid card, right? For capture, I’m using Firewire, but is there also a capture card? And, if so, how would I find out what that is, in terms of compatibility issues.

My vid card is Radeon 9200 series.
thanks-
Ruby

[Keithinator]

The capture card is the conduit through which the digital data gets into your computer. You hook your camera up to it and dump your video onto your hard drive via your capture card. The video card is responsible for drawing the information on your computer screen. They are separate entities.

[Ruby Gold]

Got it, thanks. So, if you’re using firewire to capture–is there a capture “card” that may or may not be incompatible with SP2, or is the firewire itself the capture card? If there is an additional “card” how do you find out what you have so you can check for compatibility?

thanks-

[Mike Smith]

Hi Ruby

Sorry for any confusion.

If you’re capturing your video (and maybe monitoring it for editing) via firewire, then you’re using firewire for capture and there’s no other capture card to worry about.

Capture cards for video are made by a number of manufacturers, and give you connections and software to get video into your computer from various different formats (HD, DigiBeta, BetaSP, VHS, Hi 8, whatever).

If you have Firewire built in to your computer, that will handle the DV family of formats for you (including HDV, if the computer is powerful enough and your software will handle it, or other video formats if you have a player with a Firewire interface.)

You just have *normal* concerns that your system and software should be WinXP SP2 compatible. There were some significant changes in how XP works with SP2, and some hardware drivers and software applications need updating to run with it, though this usually involves no more than downloading some software and installing it.

There are good computing / security reasons to consider SP2. For many people it’s straightforward: if you have concerns abotu updating Windows, maybe your computer supplier can help you?

Some links
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/expert/russel_installsp2.mspx
https://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_can_i_safely_upgrade_to_windows_xp_service_pack_2.html

All best