Comments on: Native Instruments Releases Detailed Vista Compatibility Information

By: xenomorph

xenomorph — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:32:39 +0000

I’m not so sure. My NI work much better hands down on my 6 year old sys with xp pro, 1.5 gig proc, 1 gig mem and sblive 5.1. than with my new HP Pavilion with Vista Premium, 3 gig proc, 3 gig mem, HD audio. Anything other than a simple wave form the sound is very bad and asio4all drivers there no sound at all. And forget about recording. Microsoft didn’t make it easy for the developers at NI when it comes to Vista OS. My hat’s off too everyone at NI.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:14:01 +0000

nice thing is that all UI things are rendered throu your graphics card instead your cpu, could save a bit…

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:04:55 +0000

The main question is how much overhead Aero creates. I’ve gotten new reports in that also suggest Aero could slow down the system, even with a decent graphics card. This seems very odd to me; it’s possible there’s still some kind of driver optimization issue.

2D vs. 3D shouldn’t matter; nothing in NI’s interface is intensive on either CPU *or* GPU.

“High performance 2D cards” — again, non-issue. You might buy a Matrox or NVIDIA card for something else, but nothing we’re doing in music requires any graphics acceleration whatsoever. (For people who are running 3D, as with programs like Jitter or VJ apps, the NVIDIA sorts of cards are quite nice.)

Here, the issue is overhead from the operating system itself. What I don’t know is how much there is (maybe it’s marginal enough not to matter), and why it’s happening.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:51:49 +0000

“far less than that of visual effects in XP”

Which should also be disabled of course…

It’s good to see them addressing the issue though. With modern UI’s for DAW software being so graphically intensive, we’re all being left wondering how the pretty graphics are implemented, and which equipment to get, in order to deliver the best performance… Do we buy high performance 2D cards like matrox gear, or gamer-oriented 3D cards like nvidia?

Obviously in NI’s case, they’re using 2D techniques, so you go 2D and disable Aero… But who knows what’s best for everything else…?