VS10 (or 11) on Windows XP 64 bit

macks64 · Post by **macks64** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:02 am

Dear Experts,

I have been using VS10 for a while now - quite successfully. I now have a Dell Precision 390 with Intel Core 2 Duo cpu and 8GB RAM, running XP64. Is either VS10 or VS11 a true 64 bit program, so it can use all the RAM to, eg., render much faster?

Should I bother shifting VS10 off my Dell Dimension 8300 (Win XP, 2GB Ram P4 2.8GHz) onto the bigger machine, or will the render times be only slightly different? I use the new machine for other purposes, but wondered whether it was worth making the move.

Thanks

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:21 pm

I do know VS11+ is written for 64bit OS.

I'm interested in what others have to say about this. But I'm not too sure how many users here have a 64bit operating system.

But's it's interesting to know VS10 runs in WinXP64.

Do come back if you find out something from somewhere else.

Thanks

DLA · Post by **DLA** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:23 pm

Rendering with Core 2 Duo will certainly be faster. Give it a try and post your results, I am sure many here will be interested to know.

macks64 · Post by **macks64** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:46 am

VS10 functions on the Core Duo machine running XP64, but I haven't done any rendering yet. I will let you know as soon as I have.

The other thing I will try is rendering as I go (ie. direct from camera to rendered) - which I thought was going to work on the old machine, but did not, as it wasn't quite fast enough. I do everything at 8264kbps constant, because I want the highest quality I can get (for low def PAL). But I won't render anything too serious until I get the dual layer DVD burner installed on the new computer. I realise rendering whilst capturing does not give much opportunity for editing - but these DVD's are just recordings of significant family events... so everything is "cured" by appropriate use of chapters/menus.

wh5916 · Post by **wh5916** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:23 pm

I have Ulead VideoStudio 11 installed on three partitions on my system--Windows XP Home, Vista Home Premium 32 bit, and Vista Home Premium 64 bit. This is a fairly new system, with an Intel Quad Core 2.4 ghz processor, and 2 gigs of RAM.

I rendered the same 90 minute file, as a test a couple of weeks back, on all three systems. Windows XP was the fastest. Windows Home Premium 32 bit came in second, roughly 20 seconds slower. Windows Home Premium 64 bit was the slowest...it took roughly a minute and a half longer than Windows XP to render the same file.

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:03 am

Well...that's pretty darn interesting

wh5916 · Post by **wh5916** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:15 pm

Clevo wrote:Well...that's pretty darn interesting

It was enough to convince me that I don't want to use the 64 bit version of Vista for video processing, at least not yet. 6 minutes to render a file that took Windows XP only 4 1/2 minutes to render...not that an extra minute and a half is the end of the world, but I'd still rather stick with what's faster.

DLA · Post by **DLA** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:11 pm

A minute and a half is not the end of the world in itself but a minute and a half on 4 1/2 is one third more. This is very bad. For a 60 minute on XP, it means 80 minute on vista if it is linear.

Yet another reason to stay with XP.

I would be really interested to see the difference between XP and XP64.