I didn’t mean to imply (and I don’t think I did) that I want Steinberg to give specific advice, or in any way approve of going to Win 10 but… they could provide a few more specifics about what issues have been seen and what the possible consequences of doing so might be. A perfect example is the reference to the Quick Time Player issue. Maybe they could say (with no guarantee) that it most likely would not be an issue for those who don’t use the video portion of CB. Or maybe they have seen that not having the latest QT version causes CB to hang during startup.
Anyway, I guess this thought is a moot as they will never do what a few have asked for because of the reasons you stated. So… fugetaboutit
Well, we all do know that no matter how much specific information they give, there will ALWAYS be those asking for more… They could put a 24 hour running chat room to answer questions and some will still say it is not enough and continue to ask the same questions and be unsatisfied with the answers and say that they don’t care about their customers and that they are sitting on their hands and they aren’t working hard enough or fast enough.
I bit the bullet and upgraded from W7 but chose the ‘clean install’ which is one of the three installation options.
I’m still in the process of reinstalling all the software but so far so good, only some funny installer behaviour whereby the usual installer UI shows but another, Windows one, pops up kind of taking over. But that does not upset the process.
Someone mentioned issues with Waves, works as expected here…my licences are on a USB stick.
Windows 10 seemed okay at first and like all the other early adopter lemmings was hoping for the best - but my ESU1808 refused to work, I uninstalled and reinstalled drivers but no luck at all, I tried a couple of compatibility modes but nothing doing. Sound Forge 10 Pro seemed to load, including the last waveform I’d worked on in W7 but it was frozen and iZotope Ozone 6 was similarly unresponsive. I didn’t even get to checking the timing issues reported by SB.
Then to cap it all my precious Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific wouldn’t start. N-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!
The good news is that it seems to have rolled back to W7 with no issues at all. I’ll try again in six months
Sorry to hear things didn’t quite work out this time…
I’m curious - what did you do/how difficult was it to roll back…? Any particular steps during the upgrade process to more easily accommodate this, I should watch out for…?
I’m building my escape plans, ahead of an attempt to upgrade this weekend, for kicks…! (from Win8.1 but shouldn’t be vastly different to Win7)
Cheers for any insight,
Bob
(PS:- just watched the trailer for SH4; made me think, damn those U-boats were deadly…!)
It’s a very simple process - in “Settings” just click “Restore Windows 7”. I expected it to be a long process but it only took ten minutes or so. W10 warned me that I might have to reinstall some programs but everything is working fine. Having tried W10 I am no longer burning with curiosity so I’m in no hurry to install it again. It didn’t seem to load any faster than W7, Cubase still had the “Video Engine Has Stopped Working” on shutdown and didn’t seem any more nimble, and there’s so much crap going on in the background with the resulting disk access.
I really don’t want to play Angry Birds or Candy Crush or know the outside air temperature etc. etc. etc. It was as though Windows 10 turned my PC into something from Fisher-Price
I havent noticed any issues in C8 Pro with Win 10 but I did run into issues with the eLicenser on both machines where I use C8 with Win 10. Had to perform maintenance on it twice on each machine… did anyone else have to do this?
I have and I have drop outs . I had to repair my eLicencer. Not blaming any one and I am not qualified to know the root of the problem so opinions would be misleading. Windows 10 allows a restore/return to Win 8 for one month and although this is helpful to restore use, I gaze at the Steinberg page hoping for a small piece of positive news and recognise they must be working on it. My Atari still seems a long time ago:)
I tried it for about 14 hours and it made no difference to me (from the music creation point of view) and it comes with a lot of ‘stuff’’ that I just don’t need so I rolled back to 7…
Cubase 8 didn’t run any better than it does now for me…actually had worse spikes on my performance meter with 10…
my verdict is you don’t need it…in the music production sense…so what’s the point in upgrading just for the sake of it
For you Windows 10 users (I am waiting for the green light from Steinberg). I use this company’s backup/imaging software and it is excellent. I will get this when I get 10.
I managed to get Cubase 7 working well using these steps … not necessarily optimized but submitted for the input of others on this.
Nick Menza
disabled all windows 10 scheduled tasks that could possibly run during a cubase session
ran fidelizer application in extreme mode with cubase as the player app (3rd party app)
adjusted the MMCSS SystemResponsiveness setting from 20 to 50 (note turning it off with 100 did not work… more dropouts) in this registry setting here
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile
system profile
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.10240 Build 10240
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Processor Intel(R) Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz, 2668 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = “10.0.10240.16392”
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 20.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 20.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 17.5 GB
Total Virtual Memory 41.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 38.4 GB
Page File Space 21.0 GB
I think for the overly curious, an obvious way to test Win10/C8Pro is to simply clone your system drive and then use one as an upgrade guinea pig. I’ll probably give it a shot this weekend.
my precious Silent Hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific wouldn’t start. N-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!
