MV3D Development Blog

May 14, 2009

Lack of Windows 64bit support

Filed under: Uncategorized — SirGolan @ 11:13 pm

Seriously. I have XP 64 on my main system at home (ok, stop laughing) because I have 4gb of RAM and don’t want to make my Athlon X2 into a K6 by running Vista. Anyway, I’ve recently decided that it would be a good idea to move my music creation stuff from my old desktop to the new one. The old one just really can’t keep up any more and starts getting tons of lag when doing real time effects. Anyway:

  • M-Audio Midisport 1×1: no drivers for XP 64 (most M-Audio hardware: no drivers for 64 bit OSes)
  • Every MIDI loopback driver except LoopBe and MOLCp3: no support for 64bit OSes
  • Behringer FCA-202: no 64 bit drivers period (most Behringer hardware: no drivers for 64 bit OSes)
  • Cakewalk 64bit version: runs ok but seems to not detect some VST plugins (32 bit ones maybe?)
  • Cakewalk 32bit version: BSOD.

    The last one is the one that really irks me. Apparently, the reason it blue screens is because Microsoft never made ASIO sound drivers work properly in XP 64 or Vista 64. Seriously? ASIO, by the way, is pretty much a requirement if you want minimal sound lag.

    Apologies for the lack of updates lately. I’ve been plugging away with refactoring load balancing and am getting close to done. I’m considering another release shortly after that stuff is finished. I’ll probably put in some things I was hoping to get in to the last release, along with some bugfixes and then call it done. Other things have been keeping me busy such as my new job, which is completely awesome of course!

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