7 Replies Latest reply: Nov 23, 2009 10:31 AM by LeBozo RSS

    Windows 7 64bit Encore Issues

    jkb242 Community Member

      Obviously there are issues with Win 7 and Encore for some reason, but not so much or none that I can report, with the other CS4 programs.  What I can offer is some of my own experimentation and findings that may be of some value to others.  Again, this is not a technical support group, but an exchange of program operating knowledge and support both of which remain to be quite valuable for me.

       

      I use Win 7 64bit Ultimate (frankly I think it's safe to say the the "version" really doesn't matter as to the Encore issues, so save the extra money when considering Home vs Ultimate) Ultimate-Home-Professional 64 bit versions all seem to have problems with mostly with Encore out of the entire suite, others have reported similar issues with the 32 bit version as well. I only encourtered issues with Encore of all the CS4 programs I use with Win 7 64 bit. The problem always begins when opening a previously created project regardless if it was created using Win 7 or not

       

      I have opened and worked successfully on a few of these projects that later won't open at all which always results in the PC freezing requiring a reboot but only using Win 7 64 bit. If I open the same project in Win XP to finish my work, it opens without a hitch.  It can't be project related! 

       

      XP is a far better more stable system as a back up, again from my experience, than Vista.  Vista is Win 7's sister with a bad temper!

       

      I have encountered other issues with Win 7 as others have as well that were fixed with a reload.  NO NOT RE-INSTALL- which can be done with the Win 7 DVD (like the old repair routeen in Win XP).  No programs or user files were lost, from my own experience, but certain OS related systems issues from corrupt files, etc. were indeed fixed!

       

      Hope this helps...