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MikeShivley
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 Posted - Wed Jan 10, 2001 12:19 am
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Anyone have any experience running CE Pro under win2k?
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Syntrillium M.D.
Location: USA
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Posted - Wed Jan 10, 2001 9:13 am
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Hi Mike. Just thought I'd drop a line and tell you that CE is fully compatible with Windows 2000. Some of the problems (that are not Cool Edit related) that you may run into are simply that many soundcard manufacturers have not written drivers for Win2K. As a result, trying to use a Win98 or even NT driver will not always work and can cause a real hassle! Be sure to check with your soundcard manufacturer to see if they have full-release version Win2000 drivers for your soundcard. If you see 'beta' next to the driver name, I'd use some caution before upgrading...
---Syntrillium Support
Edited by - syntrillium support on 01/10/2001 09:14:03 AM
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Rich StClair
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Posted - Thu Jan 11, 2001 12:14 am
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I run CEP on my Laptop when I travel...under W2K and it runs fine (we're talking workstation here-haven't tried server). But, the laptop has crystal audio built in, and W2K has drivers for that. Running it [CEP] with a sound card that only had NT drivers and no specific W2K drivers would probably not produce good results.
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Black Tuesday
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Posted - Fri Jan 12, 2001 11:07 am
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Microsoft has certified drivers built into Windows 2000 that have passed much more rigorous testing than any Win 9X driver ever dreamed of. If you have a consumer oriented card the drivers will most likely be built into Win2k and you will not have any problems. The high end cards which are very flaky to begin with may give you more of a challenge. Cool Edit Pro is also not really compatible with Windows 2000 in it's CD version. The autorun start screen is out of date and the NT install sucks (why would a user want to use the application, imagine that). The 1.2a patch fixes all of this.
Edited by - Black Tuesday on 01/12/2001 11:09:22 AM
Edited by - Black Tuesday on 01/12/2001 1:28:34 PM
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Rich StClair
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Posted - Fri Jan 12, 2001 3:00 pm
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After this came up yesterday I built a desktop machine running W2K pro, and CEP didn't like AMD K6 chips under W2K and didn't like Cyrix (using the VIA chipset).
But it ran very well with a Pentium III using the Intel Chip set. (this is all with a Soundblaster Live PCI card).
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