Windows 7 or Win XP for CS4?

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Mavoz

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Hi,

Am looking to setup a fresh OS install for the CS4 Production suite...I have been using Win XP Professional, but am wondering whether now is a good time to upgrade to Windows 7.

Are any of you using Windows 7 with Premiere Pro (and the rest of the suite)

How are you finding it?

Windows 7 or Xp...what would you recommend?

Thanks!
 
You should be thinking more in term of 64 bit versus 32 bit. If you do use 7 then you should be installing the 64 bit version and you'll see a noticeable difference in render performance for CS4. The upcoming CS5 will be even better since that will be a true 64 bit program.
 
Well, CS4 is not a 64-bit program. Even though it will use the 64 bit architecture to increase rendering time, it still doesn't use more than 4GB of RAM so adding more is useless. If you want fast playback, a faster graphics card would help you more than more RAM, if you want faster rendering, get a better CPU.

I'm assuming you're talking about AVCHD here and not any other HD format. In which case fast rendering and RT playback isn't going to happen. Not on Premiere or any other NLE. Not without transcoding into something else.
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Thanks for the replies...I doubt I'll be upgrading to CS5 (tend to wait a couple generations)...

but by the sound of it 64bit Windows 7 would be still be a better choice than Win XP Pro. I was just wondering whether any people were having issues with Windows 7.
XP is certainly a well established platform..but hopefully they've ironed out a lot of the kinks since Vista.
 
Paunch said:
Well, CS4 is not a 64-bit program. Even though it will use the 64 bit architecture to increase rendering time, it still doesn't use more than 4GB of RAM so adding more is useless. If you want fast playback, a faster graphics card would help you more than more RAM, if you want faster rendering, get a better CPU.

I'm assuming you're talking about AVCHD here and not any other HD format. In which case fast rendering and RT playback isn't going to happen. Not on Premiere or any other NLE. Not without transcoding into something else.
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Actually, its the other way round, it can use more than 4gb of ram but doesn't use the 64bit platform due to it being 32 bit.
 
i have cs4, and windows 7. it never uses more than 4gb of ram. the media encoder does.

but hells yea, get windows 7. it's way better on every level.
 
CS4 uses a clever work-around in which the program splits into multiple processes, each drawing on a max of 4 GB, so adding more RAM in this case would help.
 
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