Traktor on windows 8.1

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Traktor on windows 8.1

Just one question, Traktor works with win 8.1 (properly optimized) and kontrol s4? I dont want to spend my money and have nothing. Thanks.

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Yes it does. I run 8.1

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Thanks for fast reply.
And you did some tweaks? Do you use that laptop just for traktor? I read at NI forums that all suggest macbook but i dont want to spend 1 month of work just for a laptop… i looked some asus with i7, should work. What specs have your pc?

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Does Windows still need optimising? why is it so different to OS X?

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Because it’s an entirely different OS?

You don’t have to optimize, but it certainly doesn’t hurt.

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Ha yeah sorry that didn’t make much sense did it, i mean what is different that allows it to run perfect on OS X and rubbish on Windows? I keep seeing things like ‘disable Wifi’ .. they both have Wifi.. do they just put more effort into OS X version or is something poor in Windows the root cause?

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There’s definitely been some issues with the Windows version, especially with 2.7.0+.

Loss of ALAC support, messed up window scaling, some issues with multicore performance, etc.

Does it run well and is it stable? Yes, for the most part. It’s just small bugs that you need to work around, etc.

I think most Windows users have stuck with 2.6.8 for now. That runs just fine.

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I never have any issues on my win 8.1 machine and Im only running dual core 2.4ghz with 2 gb of ram without optimization. :stuck_out_tongue:

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If NI released traktor on Console, there would not be any problems.
People could just dj with the game controller out of the box instead of trying to learn how to dj and how to setup a pc :smiley:
If anything goes wrong, just blame the joystick
btw. most games run better on pc than console

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oh thanks for these fast replies :tada: you saved my wallet :thumbsup:

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I’ve never had any issues on my Windows laptop or desktop either.

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I use Win 8.1 with Traktor 2.6.8, works like a charm. 2.7.1 also seems to work, but some issues with window scaling is still present, but NI gave me a workaround, so I’ve began to use 2.7.1 more and more at home to test stability. Playing out I use 2.6.8 since my experience with it is that it is rock solid.

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I’m using 8.1 with Traktor DVS.

Works really well at 2.8ms latency (DJM-850 setting), but when I try to get it down to 1.4ms I get LOTS of crackles. My machine SHOULD be able to handle it (16GB Ram, i7, 256GB SSD) - not sure whey the crackles are there at 1.4ms :thumbsdown: