SONAR & XP's SP2?

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mark4man

mark4man

MoonMix Studios
People,

I know this has been gone over before...but was there ever a final consensus on the installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 having a detrimental effect on SONAR?

I want to update the ol' OS for security reasons, but I don't want to mess up my recording medium at the same time.

Thanks,

mark4man
 
Sonar 2.2 seems to work fine with XP service pack 2 so far... But I only installed SP2 yesterday.....
 
2.2 XL and SP2 with no problems, unless I generate them. :)
 
mark4man said:
but was there ever a final consensus on the installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 having a detrimental effect on SONAR?
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If anything, my computer performed better after installing SP2...
 
Here's another vote for 3.1.1 with SP2.

I installed not too long after it was released and have had no problems whatsoever.
 
I've held back myself because I read somewhere that there might be an issue with Firewire cards and SP2... haven't checked any further yet...
 
Hey...

Thank you, friends.

I'm goin' for it.

mark4man
 
AlChuck said:
I've held back myself because I read somewhere that there might be an issue with Firewire cards and SP2... haven't checked any further yet...
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Never heard about that... Where did you hear those roumors?
 
My vote is for a dedicated DAW,then you don't have to worry about things like this.
 
My DAW ain't broken... it doesn't need a fix of SP2... why bother... :p

;)
Jaymz
 
Warning!!!

WARNING!!!
Cakewalk recommends you configure your xp/sp2 system in a particular way. Please see
http://www.cakewalk.com/support/kb/kb2004216.asp
for details.

Apparently some of their code (I *think* its in the vst wrapper, but I'm not sure), uses self-modifying code which SP2 disallows.

-lee-
 
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Hmmm. Never had a problem with it. And the wrapper works fine here? Comments on this, anybody?
 
moskus said:
Hmmm. Never had a problem with it. And the wrapper works fine here? Comments on this, anybody?
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I added Sonar to the DEP exception list based on Cakewalk's recommendation. I don't know if it was actually necessary, since I never tried it any other way.
 
Since its pretty easy to add it to the exception list, I don't see any reason not to do it. Last thing I need is anything adding instability to my DAW!

-lee-
 
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