Funny, I'm on XP64 for quite some time now, and besides of that damn
printer, which was hard getting to work, I have not experienced any
incompatibilities so far. All 32bit applications run fine (what's wrong
with PS on your end?) and the 64bit ones (eg XSI) show an incredibly
better performance on the memory handling side. Plugin shaders may
become a problem, though, since they have to be recompiled by their
creators. Hey, Wacom even updated their 64bit drivers to handle my
serial tablet correctly... :)
Tim Leydecker wrote:
Hi Kris,
The cheapest way to test things without sinking too much
money would be to go for an AthlonX2, AM2 socket and
4GB Ram, should be around 600 Euros, add 150 Euros
if you take two 2GB Dimms instead of 4 1GB DDR2 Dimms.
Some 200 Euros for peripherals and chasis and another
120 Euros for that mandatory XP64bit license should do.
Personally; I´m incredibly p**ed off about all the current
incompabilities, softwarelimitations and especially those
famous known limitations nobody cares to fix but simply
flags as "unsupported". I´m not even sure wether Adobe
officially supports XP64bit at all either?
Other than that, I don´t know. I long for a more convenient life.
Cheers
tim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kris Rivel" <kris(at)krisrivel.com>
To: "XSI List Server" <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:54 PM
Subject: OT: OS/platform advice
I'm looking to maybe buying a new workstation soon and I need some
OS/platform advice. I'm a bit torn between Linux and Windows (and
possibly MAC). I've been using PC/Windows for years. I've always
preferred Windows simply for its convenience.....It can run anything
out there. I need it to do this because I will use just about any
tool or plugin I can get my hands on. I hate to be limited due to OS
concerns.
I would love to take the the plunge and go the Linux route but a big
problem for me is no Photoshop (not sure why the hell Adobe STILL
doesn't have a Linux version out). I know I can use a separate
machine for that but I was looking to avoid that if possible.
Mac is possibly an option but again, there are some compatibility
issues there. Lots of software out there can not run on MAC. Being
that I'm an XSI user, I need to make sure I can quickly utilize any
plug-in, addon, shader that becomes available and not worry about
compatibility. I also don't know if I can get used to the different
keyboard, mouse layout stuff. I know there are workarounds for all
this but it basically all comes down to simplicity and quick
execution for me.
Also there is the whole 32bit vs. 64bit issue. I would love to go
64bit but that also shrinks my compatibility pool as well. Anyway,
just looking to get a little advice. I'm a freelancer who works from
my home studio mostly now. I'm not a big code guy either so
scripting to do things like move files and make folders is just
stupid, slow and not fun for me :-)
Any info is greatly appreciated.
Kris Rivel
Freelance 3D Artist
kris(at)krisrivel.com
www.krisrivel.com
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