Another compatibility issue with Windows 7. E-Mu Proteus VX crashes my PC when trying to run it as standalone or as a VSTi with RealBand. Just to make sure there were no conflicts I tried to run it as a standalone with no other audio software running and still it crashed my PC. Windows 7 has a nice utility whereas you right mouse click on the exe file then you can select to troubleshoot and decide to run in various compatibility modes like 98 or XP. It decided that it should run in XP service pack 2 mode and then tried to restart the program but it crashed my PC again. E-Mu clearly states on their website that Proteus VX is an XP compatible app but that you should have no problem running on Vista. Vista maybe but Windows 7 definitely not, at least for now. Oh well, I'll leave it installed on my PC and hopefully E-Mu will have a fix after the official Windows 7 release.

A word of warning for those of you considering Windows 7. As Mac said earlier in this post it is a "catch as catch can" situation for now. I imagine most of the companies making software and hardware for PCs are busy checking out compatibility with their existing products but they are probably not in a hurry to release any fixes before the October 22nd release. If you decide to try the free release candidate then you should install it on a separate partion of your hard drive and boot it from there. If you install it over your existing operating system and then find it won't work for now with your key software and hardware then you're screwed. You'll either be begging for fixes or spending hours restoring your PC to it's previous configuration.

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