You still refuse to understand that the newer OS versions are so kludged up with background stuff that they can no longer perform as well as the old ones... there is nothing wrong with SAC on Win 7 or 8 at all... nothing I need to fix... so it has not fallen behind the current versions... it works fine... but those OS versions will still never match the performance of XP... so there is nothing I can do... the OS has gotten fatter and slower such that it will not perform as well as XP no matter how much code I attempt to write... I am not sure why this is such a hard concept for all of you that complain to grasp.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to look at the task manager in all three basic installs and see a problem right from the start... look at the average processes count... XP 20-25... Win 7 40-60... Win 8 50-80... there is a difference... period.
Also... the newer versions have changed many of the low level functions and basic OS operation such that it now interferes with the ability of SAC doing what it attempts to do... which is perform realtime operations of a ridiculously complex nature (live processing and routing of 72 channels of audio within 1 or 2 ms per buffer across 25 separate mixing consoles, while handling extremely fast and complex screen manipulation while also keeping up with realtime metering on multiple remotes across a hardwired or wireless network etc.) on a completely NON-REALTIME OS design... there are design limitations in Win 7 and 8 that directly break the ability of the code to do that efficiently... in XP it was possible to bypass certain Windows low level functions in such a way to achieve the performance needed... in Win 7 and 8 that has gotten almost impossible to do in an efficient manner because these low level functions have been altered in such a way as to break the whole concept. In Win 8, the thread priority that made it possible to keep the audio engine itself ontop of most every other Windows operation has been broken in an attempt to even out thread processing across all cores and all processes... this absolutely breaks an engine like SAC which requires some priority to maintain core access within the allotted 1-2 ms looptime.
No matter how many times I try to explain this it is always rebuttled with the idea that this is my failing in some way because I have let the code fall behind the times... NO... the fact is, the OS is no longer capable of performing with a program like SAC as efficiently as before... and the argument that other programs run fine is a complete joke and further just supports my argument of how those complaining have NO IDEA AT ALL about the low level programming code that makes SAC work the way it does... period.... you just can't understand if you don't write code of this nature yourself.
I am extremely tired of these misguided and false accusations about the shortcomings of my code, simply because I continue to suggest that it runs best on XP, which has now been tarred and feathered by the computing community... too bad... we have all been dumbed down so far that we continue to accept less and less quality as we pay more for newer and newer systems that continuously drop the bar lower and lower with every new iteration... and then the masses will defend the new stuff to the death, even though they have no real technical knowledge or understanding of what they are talking about... amazing.
As far as I'm concerned this is the last I want to get involved in this type of ignorant discussion... I am done trying to explain to complainers who refuse to listen to reason... all they want to do is bash... bash... bash... enough already... use whatever system and program you feel is awesome... I will continue using SAC and continue replacing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of mixing console equipment for pennies on the dollar... I'm fine still building and using XP because that is what gives me the best performance and stability to do the kinds of shows and tours that SAC is doing on a daily basis.
I sincerely hope Win 10 is better than 7 or 8... and XP... but I am not holding my breath.
Bob L
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