PRE8 question

[Chris B]

OK - so I'm looking to get a new PC soon with windows 7 64bit and loads of memory. So - PE4 isn't going to cut it so I'll probably move up to 8. Do you know is PE8 shares any of the stuff from CS4 where lots of RAM and a 64bit OS really helps the rendering process? Since it's sold for win7 can I assume that there are no 64bit type compatibility issues?

Thanks chaps.

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Chris,
Version 8 is still a 32bit application, so the 64bit OS won't help a lot.
There are the same driver issues when trying to run it on a 64bit OS, but it has run without problems for people already both on Vista 64 and Windows 7 64bit..

I would say that there probably won't be a difference between version 7 and 8 as far as running on a 64bit OS goes.
Some people have no problems at all, others have nightmares, depends on the system it is installed on.
I think the issues are usually hardware and driver related, not problems with XP, Vista or Windows 7 64bit OS in general.

[Chris B]

Thanks Chuck,

I was thinking that lots of memory (8GB) - and therefore lots of disk cache would help the HDV flow considerably in any case. My copy of PE4 seems to thrash the disk a lot running with 3GB.

[Chuck Engels]

I'm not sure that there will be extra RAM available to the application, there is to Windows but don't know if that is still true when running a 32bit app.
Maybe Bob, Bobby, or one of the more technically advanced members can comment on that