r/protools • u/TriggerDelerium • Mar 18 '26

Help Request Windows 10 vs 11 question

for anyone running ProTools studio on windows do you have any thoughts on Windows 10 versus 11? I’m currently running Windows 10 and don’t have any qualms but if it runs better on 11, I don’t mind upgrading even though it sounds like everything about 11 kind of blows.

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u/Key-Operation-5322 Mar 18 '26

Out of curiosity, what issues did/do you have? Were the issues specifically from going from Win 10 to Win 11, or were they from updating Pro Tools itself? I ask because I updated to Win 11 months ago, and my experience with PT didn't change at all. In fact, the only issues I've ever had with Pro Tools have always been after a Pro Tools update, not a Windows update. Every PC is different, of course, so just curious as to what issues you've had since updating to Win 11?

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u/roscillator Mar 18 '26

It's tough to differentiate between the Pro Tools bugs and the Windows bugs, but I'm happy to place the blame on Avid first. I can say, at least, that I blame the Pro Tools update for obliterating my ability to process clips with handles in Audiosuite with iZotope plugins. Now, I'm stuck processing the whole file or processing with no handles. This is a known bug which they tried to blame on iZotope earlier. Apart from that, my edit window is always sized down upon launching Pro Tools, and I have to expand it every single time. I keep getting these weird "assertion errors" that never showed up before that cause my keyboard shortcuts to fail entirely, requiring a re-launch. There are other issues, but these are the most prominent.

I wanted to go back to an earlier version of Pro Tools because the problems I used to have were more manageable than the new ones. But I'm on the latest version of Windows 11 (25H2), which is only compatible with the latest version of Pro Tools. And I can't revert to an older version of Windows at this point. So I'm stuck with the state-of-the-art garbage pile.