I had a little trouble installing my copy of Cakewalk's Rapture on my laptop. I have an old Sony Vaio VGN-S270P running Vista and the DVD drive just kept spinning. I tried rebooting and the same. I then tried Safe Mode by pressing F8 on boot and I was able to successfully install there. No problems whatsoever. I thought I'd put up a post in case anyone else runs into problems installing any software. I couldn't find anything on the net regarding install issues with Rapture, so I'm guessing it was just my system. I've had similar problems with it in the past. So... the tip is if you can't seem to install or read from a CD or DVD, try it in Safe Mode. It just might work.
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Rapture Install Tip
I had a little trouble installing my copy of Cakewalk's Rapture on my laptop. I have an old Sony Vaio VGN-S270P running Vista and the DVD drive just kept spinning. I tried rebooting and the same. I then tried Safe Mode by pressing F8 on boot and I was able to successfully install there. No problems whatsoever. I thought I'd put up a post in case anyone else runs into problems installing any software. I couldn't find anything on the net regarding install issues with Rapture, so I'm guessing it was just my system. I've had similar problems with it in the past. So... the tip is if you can't seem to install or read from a CD or DVD, try it in Safe Mode. It just might work.
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So, what did you do? Did you get it installed?
ReplyDeleteYes, I got it installed fine - in Safe Mode. Reboot to normal mode and it works fine.
ReplyDeleteA huge resource hog and system drain like Vista is probably not the best platform for softsynths.
ReplyDeleteMy boss is begging me to "downgrade" his brand-new dual core laptop because it runs like a snail...slower than his old Pentium200 Win2K laptop :(
Vista is pretty though.
...just my .02 :D
My install of Vista is actually tons faster than XP. Win2k? I have no idea, but definitely faster than XP. The difference is huge on my system. Faster boot times, and much better resource management.
ReplyDeletematrix...Are you from this planet :)? Which Vista do you have? My new PC came preinstalled w/ Home basic and I had a similar experience to Carbon111. XP Pro now installed and is at least 30-50% faster.
ReplyDeleteI have Vista Ultimate and it's faster. I read that XP SP3 is coming and will increase perf by 10%, so those that wanted to upgrade to Vista for the perf improvements might not have to. Vista is faster. It's pretty well known. Not sure what happened with your system. Maybe the amount of RAM? I only have 1G and it's faster.
ReplyDeleteHere's Tom's Hardware's notes on it: link. Looks like XP was slightly faster in their tests. I guess it depends on what you are running. I guess I'm just lucky. :) It really is faster. I was totally surprised as I thought it would be slower.
ReplyDeleteSo how do you like Rapture now that it actually works? I've been thinking about getting it.
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