I'm afraid my old faithfull laptop is running on his latest shoes (don't know if you say this in english) and i'm looking for a replacement. I've seen a nice one which has windows7 64 bit installed on it. Does anyone know if pd run's smoothly on this? And about multicore support, since this will be my first multicore computer, will i see some dramatic changes in the patch cpu-load?

Thanx a lot for all advice,

D.

I use PD on Win7 x64 with Intel I7 dual core, so don't worry, it's ok.

I don't use a Windows, but from what I know Pd only uses one processor core. However, there are a couple of ways around this.

One way is to split up the patch, run each part of the patch with a separate instance of Pd and use netsend or OSC to communicate between the instances. I've not tried this myself, but check out this posting on the forum: http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2957-cpu-load-only-use-single-core

The other way is to use the [pd~] object. This object was added to Pd 'to allow users to embed separate Pd processes inside each other, so that the OS can schedule the processes on separate CPUs' – check out Miller Puckette's paper, Multiprocessing in pd for more information. With the [pd~] object you are able to run different instances of pd through a master patch, but without the hassle of using OSC or netsend to communicate between them.

My dream PD on Win7 /Mac x64 with Intel I7 man I have dreams about it : )

Thanks jrdooley, that's very usefull to know. However i must say i'm very pleased with my new computer just like that. Even running on a single core - i guess - i can already do incredibely much more than on my old machine.