Pro Audio 9 and XP

[genejhsn]

A friend of mine has Pro Audio 9 and, being more of a picker than technician, asked me to install it for him on his new Compaq running XP, 2.7 G, 256M of RAM 80G HD. I am having some difficulties. Are there any known compatibility issues with PA 9 and XP?

I have PA 9 running on a 1.0G, 512M, 2 HD, WIn 98 system with an Audigy card and it is pretty much flawless.

On the Compaq, there is a stutter that occurrs consistently in the same place in the first four beats of starting a MIDI trak no matter which measure is the starting point. Using any effect on an audio track causes a dropout immediately on play. It happens with both the on board sound and with his Soundblaster Live that I also installed for him. This tends to rule out a soundcard issue.

I am inclined to think he needs more RAM, and a second HD would be a big help too. Before recommending throwing money at the situation - neither of us have much, that's why we are using PA 9 instead of Sonar - I wanted to see if there were any XP compatibility issues.

I ran Cakewalk previously on a system with 256MB and it ran fine, but that was under Win98, not XP.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Teacher]

I don't think Pro Audio 9 is compatible with XP did you check the cakewalk site to see?

[AGCurry]

I upgraded from 98 to XP Home (okay, it was actually a new clean installation) a few months ago. Pro Audio 9 works just fine for me on XP. I would say your problems are probably with hardware or settings.

[ohmeohmy]

ive been using a beta test of sonar 3 producer for a while, but i switched back to pro audio 9 because i own it and i was tired of changing my date back to use the beta version. anyway...

pro audio works fine on XP for me as well.

[acidrock]

If I'm not mistaken,XP uses more ram which would leave less available for PA9.RAM is cheap and even if it does'nt do the trick for PA9 it will help the computers performance overall.

[genejhsn]

Thank you for your responses, the assistance is much appreciated!