Devin Johnston Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 We just upgraded to Premiere Pro and After Effects CS5 and to my surprise you can't run either of these programs on Windows XP 64, they only work with Windows 7. I've already tried upgrading to Windows 7 but after seeing how much more ram it takes to run the same programs I've gone back to XP 64 which only leaves me with the option of setting up a dual boot. I've tried setting up a VMware Workstation which allows you to run another operating system withing your existing one, it works great except that it doesn't seem to support the advanced features of my video card which is exactly what CS5 needs to work efficiently. Is anyone running a system similar to mine with the same issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendelld Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 You can upgrade to Windows 7 64bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 You do realize that running Win7 under VMWare in XP64 is much less memory efficient than just running Windows 7? I think your most reasonable option is to run 7 and add more ram if needed. BTW, my experience with Win7-64 hasn't been that it's less memory efficient than XP64. Are you sure the apps are using more ram and not just reporting using more ram? The memory management is a bit different. And have you been able to try the CUDA playback engine in CS5 yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted June 13, 2010 Author Share Posted June 13, 2010 When I had Windows 7 installed the CUDA playback was really great, that's the only thing I can't do using VMware. The memory footprint of Windows 7 is at least twice that of XP64, when using Max 2011+Vray SP5 some of my scenes would use over a gig more ram and would render slower I was also having issues with my Quadro 3800 graphics card, Max was crashing constantly and until Nvidia addresses that issue I'm not going to try it again. Given all of that I think the best course of action is to go with a dual boot option but I wanted to know if anyone knew if VMware would fully support my graphics card since I already had it installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Yeah, sounds like you've got problems. There's no version of VMWare (or any other virtualization platform I know of) that gives direct access to GPU hardware - it has DirectX and OpenGL but through hardware emulation - and Adobe has desupported OSes older than Vista and doesn't even include a 32-bit version. (They're cutting support all over the place - they also desupported PowerPC Macs and everything earlier than the latest version of OSX 10.5.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted June 13, 2010 Author Share Posted June 13, 2010 If I didn't know better I'd say they were trying to help Microsoft push their new OS, just doesn't make much since to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 I don't think Adobe does anything to help out Microsoft or Apple these days. On the OSX side I understand why they made the support changes they did. On the Windows side, it doesn't make as much sense to me but XP64 is at about the same level of obsolete as a PowerPC Mac and maybe there's some Windows component that XP lacks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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