1 Topic by youngblood (edited by youngblood 2017-09-10 09:57:29)

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Topic: ARC running on Win XP with a HDSP 9652 ?

Will the ARC be running on an old Windows XP system and  a HDSP 9652 installed?
Total mix version 1.43
HDsp Driver 4.18

Thank you very much for your answer!

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Re: ARC running on Win XP with a HDSP 9652 ?

I have to check if somebody tried that already. The question here is if XP supports UAC-1 class compliant MIDI. I would say it does, so the ARC USB will work. But I can't guarantee that right now.

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Re: ARC running on Win XP with a HDSP 9652 ?

Thank you very much Matthias. Do you have the chance to test that?

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Re: ARC running on Win XP with a HDSP 9652 ?

We now had the chance to test it and it does not work. Windows XP is giving the 'RME ARC' a generic name instead (USB MIDI Device), so TotalMix FX does not find the ARC USB.

As there is no support for XP anymore the ARC USB is now officially incompatible to Windows XP.

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Re: ARC running on Win XP with a HDSP 9652 ?

Somewhere in this Forum I found a hack using the generic driver but changing the name of the device.
Would that work around the problem?

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Re: ARC running on Win XP with a HDSP 9652 ?

Dear, Win XP is so old ... has a flavour like Cobol and Mainframe...

I would at least upgrade to something "different old" and mature like Win7,
32bit or 64bit depending on whether drivers/applications support 64bit or not.

Especially as devices, that were supported by XP, had usually a very good chance
to be supported by Win7 as well.

Then you have at least only the costs for the OS upgrade, and as long licenses are still available for Win7 .....

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