Are there any actual impacts of DRM on pro audio work in Vista?
Noel: The DRM protection typically only applies to when you are playing back files through your soundcard in Windows itself and for consumer audio hardware. If you are using ASIO or your device is not set as the default audio device in Windows this is a non issue. Peter: What’s the impact on performance of indexing and search services? Noel: This is really not Vista specific. Any repetitive background operation like indexing can be potentially detrimental to real-time audio streaming and should be disabled on a DAW for critical applications. The same applies to Windows XP as well. Ed.: I had originally advised users turn off indexing. I’m now suspicious that some specific bug was causing it to continue to run, because indexing is only supposed to start in a system-idle state. I now have indexing on on two Vista test machines, and haven’t seen any impact on performance whatsoever. -PK Peter: Backwards compatibility was a big concern for a lot of users. It seems like perhaps this is more
