XploZiveToyz
All American Un-American
The story I'm about to relate happened simply because I couldn't leave well enough alone. And unlike some stories, this story does have a moral. The moral is that if something isn't broken, just leave it the hell alone!
I have two computers that ! use for recording. One is an Apple and the other is a PC that was using Windows 7 as it's operating system. Both computers have been very stable over the three or so years that I've owned them. They've never crashed or even had the screen freeze up like earlier computers used to do and you'd have to hit Control, Alt, Delete to get them to unfreeze. I consider both to be excellent computers that have never given me one minute of trouble.
After bouncing around the internet reading various articles on Windows 8 I decided that I would probably suffer major depression, and possibly a bad end unless I immediately installed Windows 8 into my computer. Never mind the fact that 7 ran great and had never given me any trouble whatsoever. I wanted a clean install so I dumped everything and installed 8. I spent the major portion of that night and most of the next day reinstalling all my various applications and programs that I use for recording and music. I have a lot of them which is why it took all those hours to reinstall the stuff I'd dumped. So when I was done I fired it up and everything ran well until I got to Guitar Rig 5 Pro made by Native Instruments. Dammit, it didn't work! I un-installed it and reinstalled it. All to no avail. I contacted Native Instrument for help. I answered their many questions. I sent them various print screen shots. All to no avail. The computer was running well all except for the fact that GR5 didn't work. I went back and forth with NI for a week or so and they never figured out what the problem was. I then decided to install the Windows 8.1 Update Beta to see if that would fix the problem. It fixed the GR5 problem, but now the computer constantly crashed and the screen would freeze. Not even hitting Control, Alt, Delete would unfreeze it. I had to manually turn the computer off thus losing any work that I had done. I then spent the next three days reading various forums and trying different things all to no avail. I finally said, "Fuck this!" and decided to reinstall 7. However I decided to try 8 one more time. I did and now everything is running great. I reinstalled 7 into another drive on the same PC so I could compare 7 and 8. My findings suggest that 8 is just a little bit faster than 7, but not fast enough to warrant spending the money that I spent on 8. My suggestion to you is that if you're happy with 7 and it works well for you, then by all means keep it! There is no reason to fix something that isn't broke! LOL!
I have two computers that ! use for recording. One is an Apple and the other is a PC that was using Windows 7 as it's operating system. Both computers have been very stable over the three or so years that I've owned them. They've never crashed or even had the screen freeze up like earlier computers used to do and you'd have to hit Control, Alt, Delete to get them to unfreeze. I consider both to be excellent computers that have never given me one minute of trouble.
After bouncing around the internet reading various articles on Windows 8 I decided that I would probably suffer major depression, and possibly a bad end unless I immediately installed Windows 8 into my computer. Never mind the fact that 7 ran great and had never given me any trouble whatsoever. I wanted a clean install so I dumped everything and installed 8. I spent the major portion of that night and most of the next day reinstalling all my various applications and programs that I use for recording and music. I have a lot of them which is why it took all those hours to reinstall the stuff I'd dumped. So when I was done I fired it up and everything ran well until I got to Guitar Rig 5 Pro made by Native Instruments. Dammit, it didn't work! I un-installed it and reinstalled it. All to no avail. I contacted Native Instrument for help. I answered their many questions. I sent them various print screen shots. All to no avail. The computer was running well all except for the fact that GR5 didn't work. I went back and forth with NI for a week or so and they never figured out what the problem was. I then decided to install the Windows 8.1 Update Beta to see if that would fix the problem. It fixed the GR5 problem, but now the computer constantly crashed and the screen would freeze. Not even hitting Control, Alt, Delete would unfreeze it. I had to manually turn the computer off thus losing any work that I had done. I then spent the next three days reading various forums and trying different things all to no avail. I finally said, "Fuck this!" and decided to reinstall 7. However I decided to try 8 one more time. I did and now everything is running great. I reinstalled 7 into another drive on the same PC so I could compare 7 and 8. My findings suggest that 8 is just a little bit faster than 7, but not fast enough to warrant spending the money that I spent on 8. My suggestion to you is that if you're happy with 7 and it works well for you, then by all means keep it! There is no reason to fix something that isn't broke! LOL!
