Bootcamp

[WorldofNoise]

Hello,

I have a Late 2016 MacBook Pro i7 2.6 Quad, 16GB RAM, 256 SSD, that I'm thinking of using bootcamp on, as I continuously read Reaper works better under Windows.

Can anyone tell me if they've used Reaper in bootcamp and gained any performance or stability? Does this improve the graphic performance with a retina display? Thunderbolt still work as expected? I'd be using Windows 10 Pro.

Thanks!

[minotaur]

Originally Posted by WorldofNoise

Hello,

I have a Late 2016 MacBook Pro i7 2.6 Quad, 16GB RAM, 256 SSD, that I'm thinking of using bootcamp on, as I continuously read Reaper works better under Windows.

Can anyone tell me if they've used Reaper in bootcamp and gained any performance or stability? Does this improve the graphic performance with a retina display? Thunderbolt still work as expected? I'd be using Windows 10 Pro.

Thanks!

Late 2015 MBP here, 2.4Ghz, 16Gb ram, 256Gb SSD, boot camp with win10. Yes, the graphic response is genuinely faster. A user made a very good comparison video of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmdIOlI81Fg
A few times it's annoying. If you have a mouse with built-in double click, that might not work as well as on Windows. Dragging elements, composing midi notes in the editor sometimes requires two motion instead of one, as the grabbed item does not entirely follow the mouse. That's the worst I encountered so far, but honestly it's not that annoying.
It's probably useful to mention that I'm using Reaper only for audio, no video.

That said, OSX's way of handling the USB ports is way better than Windows'. I find having problems connecting the same amount of USB periphery on windows. I reboot it on OSX and it works just fine. (Have no Thunderbolt hardware.)
Oh, and for me bootcamp heats up the MBP chassis horribly, it's almost constantly on full cooling cycle, which is not only annoying cause it's loud, but also not very economic on your laptop. I still recommend OSX to be honest.

[BenK-msx]

i switched from win to mac and wasn't a fan of noticably slower gui initially as was slight surprise, but have frankly forgotten about it now, i do have blurry mouse cursors which i should be able to fix but haven't been concerned enough to invesitage.

[serr]

I tried that a few years ago after reading the same things. Reaper was clearly snappier with OSX. However, it was Windows XP I tried at that time and I didn't do any tweaking. I see more comments that claim the opposite - Windows having faster GUI response.

My focus is audio so I'll take any GUI lags vs losing stability if that's the case now. And I'm just not going to buy a newer Windows install for an experiment. If I had some Windows only plugin that I just had to demo, I'd launch the Windows version of Reaper with Wine in OSX.

[Futur8me]

Windows 10 on my iMac runs Reapers GUI loads smoother then on macOS 10.13.3.., I do not mind using windows 10 but prefer using macOS, both the GUIs of Logic Pro X and FL Studio on macOS are butter smooth so it is possible, after using those programs then using Reaper on macOS you really noticed the horrible lag.

.


.

.

[Judders]

Originally Posted by Futur8me

...both the GUIs of Logic Pro X and FL Studio on macOS are butter smooth so it is possible, after using those programs then using Reaper on macOS you really noticed the horrible lag..

How does the audio performance compare? CPU use etc.?