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have to buy a new (old, used) computer
for my Scope 4 installation. I'm running 2 Pulsar cards
in parallel (PI & PII).

A couple of questions:

will Scope 4 run on a 64 bit system, like Windows 7?

are there any chipsets (motherboard cpu etc) requirements for Scope 4?

Thanks,

Gary

no, Scope 4 won't work on win7 32 or 64bit. it also won't work with xp 64bit.

most chipsets work, although until someone has complete success, i don't recommend soclet 1155 motherboards with PCI cards. this has nothing to do with Scope 4, it concerns the hardware and how well it performs.

for win7, you will need to purchase v5.1.

garyb wrote:no, Scope 4 won't work on win7 32 or 64bit. it also won't work with xp 64bit.

most chipsets work, although until someone has complete success, i don't recommend soclet 1155 motherboards with PCI cards. this has nothing to do with Scope 4, it concerns the hardware and how well it performs.

for win7, you will need to purchase v5.1.

Thanks GaryB ...

another option I could consider, if this is technically possible,
is to buy a used 64-bit machine, and install XP-32bit on that machine
(that's the part I don't know is do-able .. ??)

then when I have the bucks, I can upgrade to Windows 7 and SCOPE 5.1.

does anyone know if XP-32 PRO will run on a 64 bit architecture,
but more importantly, will SCOPE 4 run thru XP on a 64 bit box?

also, will SCOPE 5.1 work on my older PULSAR CARDS (Pulsar I and Pulsar II in parallel) ...?

thanks!!!

Gary

sure, newer computers can run a 32bit os. many are sold that way. there is not necessarily any benefit to 64bit over 32bit win7 or xp, at least for audio apps.

you should switch to 64 bit only if you plan to use huge amount of samples in a sampler such as kontakt.
in that case you can install more than 4GB of ram and have plenty of room to load whatever sample instrument you want.
with 32 bit, probably the only limitation you will have is the "memory full" if you will load too much samples.

This sounds like the situation I'm now in In general, how much does it cost to upgrade from 4.0 to 5.1?

garyb wrote:no, Scope 4 won't work on win7 32 or 64bit. it also won't work with xp 64bit.

most chipsets work, although until someone has complete success, i don't recommend soclet 1155 motherboards with PCI cards. this has nothing to do with Scope 4, it concerns the hardware and how well it performs.

for win7, you will need to purchase v5.1.

Ive seen Scope v3 running on Vista, however we had to use compatibility mode. It ran well as far as i experienced, the card was actually a Luna.
I dont know if it would work as well with the bigger cards and demanding projects.

So what changed with Win7? I would have thought compatibility mode in 7 would be the same if not more stable..

Scope cannot run reliably in compatibility mode. Scope is a realtime app and compatibility mode is not realtime.

do as you like, however.

unaHm, v5.1 pricing is here:
http://www.sonic-core.net/shop/index.ph ... tform.html

Thanks Gary. It looks like I've got some saving up to do!

garyb wrote:Scope cannot run reliably in compatibility mode. Scope is a realtime app and compatibility mode is not realtime.

do as you like, however.

unaHm, v5.1 pricing is here:
http://www.sonic-core.net/shop/index.ph ... tform.html

Well like i say it was a Luna with Scope 3 and stock plugins so it wasnt really used for much other than the asio driver and a mixer.
I can see how it would be asking for trouble if used with a bigger card.

The funny thing is that it wouldnt work with Windows 7 even in compatibility mode. So i wonder what was different with Vista