I have been running v6 on 64bit Vista for a while. Not nearly as bad as I
had anticipated. Very few bugs that I have noticed, and the OS seems much
more stable than XP 64bit. Most drivers are available now and quite stable.
The graphics still seems to lack some speed compared to XP. Still a few
annoyances with a couple programs as mentioned, but not a show stopper in
any respect. No problems with Quicktime that I have found. Most program
issues are related to 64bit not Vista. I can get satellite rendering with
32bit renderboxes. Including the machine in the mixed 32/64 bit farm hasn't
produced any strange anomalies. The lack of some shaders is a trouble spot,
but I have been able to work around most of it. The increased RAM
capabilities have saved my bacon a couple of times. I certainly wouldn't
"upgrade" to it, but with a new machine not so bad.
My .02
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
Tim Leydecker
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 6:47 AM6:47
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: OT XSI on Vista64// everything fine?
>I personally would avoid Vista for awhile still. Still seems a bit buggy
Dang.
Too late. I´ve just ordered Vista64 Business along with a
new mainboard, CPU and supersize RAM kit. Damn.
It´s only now that I realize I probably can´t simply "klonk"
the disembowled, frankensteined carcass of my old 32bit
box in to get some satellite rendering, e.g. mixing 64/32bit.
Won´t work, but I´m not even sure those remains plugged
together will work for themselves anyway...
Thanks for the tip with installing 32bit XSI on XP/Vista64,
that may work as a backup plan.
Cheers
tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Rivel" <krisrivel(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: OT XSI on Vista64// everything fine?
I personally would avoid Vista for awhile still. Still seems a bit buggy
>from what I've heard. I really don't see any advantage over WinXP other
than the slick interface and that warm fuzzy feeling you sometimes get from
knowing you have the most up to date gear. I'm running both XSI 5.11 and
6.02 on WinXP 64 with no problems. My only three gripes are:
1. Most good shaders are available for 64bit but there are a handful of
others that are not
2. No quicktime in 64bit. Not a huge deal but sometimes a pain when trying
to export a sequence in the FX tree as a quicktime or using the 64bit
flipbook. You can just run 32bit xsi for these needs though.
3. Adobe Acrobat and some printer drivers do not work. Good luck getting
Acrobat Pro running on Win64. It installs and runs but you will not be able
to export out as a pdf file in other apps like MS Word or Excel. You have
to install the CutePDF converter which creates pretty nice PDF files from
any app.
Kris
On 7/18/07, Tim Leydecker <BauerOink(at)gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> can some of you allready comment on
> running XSI 5.11/6.02 on Vista64?
>
> I don´t fancy getting Aero to run but
> wonder about possible viewportglitches,
> 64bit shader shortages and in general running
> a 64bit WS with shoddy 32bit satelites/slaves,
> e.g. transfering myself progressively to 64bit?
>
> Cheers
>
> tim
>
>
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