Which OS?

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Ok, I am reformatting and reinstalling everything and I want to hear what the consensus is on the various MS OS's.

Win 98SE
Win ME
Win 2k Pro
Win XP Pro

These are my options for OS's. I am currently running XP and I love it, but for recording I am having all these pops and clicks and even following all of the tweaks I've been able to find here and elsewhere, It's still happeining. Since I had the same issue with 2k I am leaning towards a stripped down 98SE.
What do you think?
 
the only thing I can tell you is avoid ME. I've heard so many stories of blue screens of death and all that it's not even funny. I know some people here are very satisfied with 2000.
 
really it comes down to your hardware and software. if your hardware has the drivers go Xppro. its great, you get very low latency and its already tweaked good, but you can get tweakXP and do the tweaks from Bluelife. your daw will run great.

i run a delta 1010 w/ nuendo/cubase/wavelab and too many plugins to count.
 
Win 2000 Pro is the way to go. Used 98, ME, NT4.0 always end up reverting back to 2000. Can't talk about XP though.....
Never used it.
 
I think it's like C9 said - it depends on your soundcard and the drivers for it. I've got a Gadgetlabs card with Win 98, and it's been fine.
 
I prefer and recommend Windows 2000. But like dobro said that like C9 said, it greatly depends on your hardware choices.

Windows 2000 is a more stable OS over a wider range of hardware and software than XP is *at this time*. Win9x offers an even greater selection of hardware and software, but is considerably less stable (and IMHO slower) than 2000.

Slackmaster 2000
 
Thanks for the responses.

I have heard about the stability of both 2k and XP, but the problem is my @&%#'n sblive does not like either of these OS no matter how I tweak them. The only time I've gotten clean recordings on it was when I ran 98SE. That is why I am leaning in that direction. Until I can get a new soundcard, system stability is not as important as sound quality. Once I get a new card, I will probably RUN back to XP Pro (Assuming the card has drivers for it
 
I have an SB Live and I've had no problems whatsoever with Win2k or WinXP as long as I use the default Windows drivers. The folks at Creative Labs need to be flogged for repeatedly releasing crap drivers.

Also, do you have a VIA chipset? I've heard there are some VIA chipsets (primarily on AMD-based mobos) that don't play nice with the SB Live.
 
Yeah, I started with the OS drivers, but they did not have the soundfont support I wanted and the audio was not clean, so I switched to Creative's drivers. I also have a Via chipset on my mobo, so perhaps some combination of Creative's drivers and XP's Via drivers is causing interference. It looks like I will almost have to go with 98SE since It worked so well, until I can get a new soundcard.
 
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