Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 setup on win 7
On Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 12:42:47 PM UTC-5, PenaL wrote:
I have an very old Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 sequencer / sampler software,
legally bought, the licenses are ok. I tried to setup the software to my
laptop pc with windows 7. This didn't really manage. All the computer
tilted, and there was work to wake my computer to work again. On the the
earlier windows -versions Cakewalk worked well, and it was easy to setup.
Is it possible, that this version on Cakewalk doesn't work on win 7 and
later windows -versions...?
-Pentti
Hi Pentti
I have an older version - Cakewalk Pro 7, that I've been running on Win 7 & 10 x64 since I upgraded from XP. I discovered that it's important to skip the part where CW asks you if you want to install Direct Show. One time I clicked "yes", and CW installed an ancient version of DS (5.0 or something) which messed up my system quite a bit. I wound up re-installing Windows to fix it. I also run CW in Windows XP compatibility mode, which seems to help. CW still works great, with the exception that every now and then the tool bars get mixed around, but they are easy to straighten up.
I also keep a copy of XP running in virtual machine just in case the day comes when CW really won't run on the latest Win OS.
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