VS10

Nick Gunn · Post by **Nick Gunn** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:23 am

Is Video Studio 10 a true 64 bit program that will take avantage of 64 bit CPUs and Vista.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:13 am

Yes, according to Ulead it will, except the Vista OS... I don't recall reading anything on Vista.

From Ulead's System Requirements

Intel® Pentium® 4 or higher

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4, Windows® XP SP2 Home Edition/Professional, Windows® XP Media Center Edition, Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition

256 MB of RAM (512 MB or more recommended)

1 GB of available hard disk space for program installation

Windows-compatible sound card (multi-channel sound card for surround sound support recommended)

Windows-compatible CD-ROM for installation

Regards..

Ron P.

GuyL · Post by **GuyL** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:40 pm

I have a similar question....

Is VS10 supposed to have any performance increases - specifically with dual cores?

Ulead claims that it supports HT and dual core as did VS9. I downloaded the VS10 trial and rendered the same clip in both VS9 and VS10 and the times are virtually identical and the CPU usage hovers around 50% on both.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:12 pm

Ulead claims that it supports HT and dual core... the CPU usage hovers around 50% on both.

I guess that's not surprising... Rendering is normally a sequential (frame-by-frame) operation, and it would be difficult to break it into multiple threads. Even if rendering is more than one thread, there are probably a few operations that take-up all of the CPU-time. So, that "main" thread is probably chewing-up all of the CPU cycles on one core, and all of the insignificant stuff is being sent to the other core.

It's like you have two mechanics working on your car. One of them is going to be sitting around doing nothing, except maybe handing the other guy tools, unless there are two different equally-difficult jobs to be done on two different areas of the car.

I assume that most commercial programs are multi-threaded, and they can claim to take advantage of multicore / multiprocessor systems, since the operating system can automatically send parallel threads to a different processors.

joosuna · Post by **joosuna** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:22 am

Vidoman...will there be two versions of VS10plus ??. One version being a 32bit version and the other a 64bit version ?

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:04 am

joosuna wrote:Vidoman...will there be two versions of VS10plus ??. One version being a 32bit version and the other a 64bit version ?

No there is only one version, which can function on 64 bit systems, and 32 bit. I'm not a programmer, so I don't have a clue how they manage this. If it works, that's all that matters..

Ron P.

GuyL · Post by **GuyL** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:16 am

vidoman wrote:
joosuna wrote:Vidoman...will there be two versions of VS10plus ??. One version being a 32bit version and the other a 64bit version ?
No there is only one version, which can function on 64 bit systems, and 32 bit. I'm not a programmer, so I don't have a clue how they manage this. If it works, that's all that matters..

Ron P.

My guess it is a 32 bit application. Vista, like XP64 can run 32 bit applications.