

In 2007 the first mainstream Windows 64-bit OS, Windows Vista, was introduced. The first 64-bit Intel Xeon processor was introduce 10 years ago in 2004. You really need a 4-Core CPU with 8GB of memory to edit today’s video formats and that requires a 64-bit OS. That rules out using a 32-bit OS to take advantage of all of the processing power a multi-core CPU can give. A properly configured computer should have 1GB per core minimum and 2GB per core recommended. Newer HD video formats require multi-core CPU’s and multi-core CPU’s need more memory than 32-bit OS’s can address.So one reason is to be able to address more memory for larger video formats and memory hungry video FX


And the preference for "Keep bypassed FX running" is unchecked.

Trick is, I can open a mix from Vegas8 in Vegas9 64-bit, and manually bypass all effects, and when I re-enable them one-by-one, there's really no rhyme or reason to when it melts down. They could crash previous versions of Vegas. The only flaky set I use are the db-audioware Quantum FX plugs. and GSnap (free, but always stable in previous versions of Vegas) I have had problems too many to number with Vegas 9 64-bit, so my reason for polling the community is to see how much of my problems could be caused by my VST's. Re: stability/reliability, this is really the kind of feedback I am looking for from the user base.
