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Subject:ACID 4.0a on Laptops
Posted by: antistar
Date:9/22/2002 4:19:27 PM
Anyone is useing ACID 4.0a on a laptop? I encounter various problems, which still remained in the recently released a-patch. Regarding my computer it's: TOSHIBA 1800-750, P3 1GHz, 256MB, WinME, Ali Audio Accelerator. If I track the memory consumption of ACID, I see, that it allocates lots of virtual memory. OK, I have a rather unusual project containing two 250MB Wav-tracks, and several loops with effects. If somone has a successfull configuration, please give me your system description! Thanks, antistar |
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Subject:RE: ACID 4.0a on Laptops
Reply by: dhanjit
Date:9/23/2002 1:49:10 AM
How much is a "lot" of virtual memory. Your two 250Mb tracks are nearly twice your RAM, so a significant amount of Virtual memory use should be expected. If you're going to work with 500Mb worth of files you should have at least 512Mb RAM IMHO. |
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Subject:RE: ACID 4.0a on Laptops
Reply by: toncu
Date:9/23/2002 3:14:48 AM
I'm using 4.0a on a Toshiba Tecra 9100. P4/2.0GHz, 512MB, WinXP Pro SP1. Flawless performance with 4.0 and 4.0a. |
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Subject:RE: ACID 4.0a on Laptops
Reply by: antistar
Date:9/23/2002 6:39:42 AM
Well, it is ACID's responibility, how to manage the memory usage of big files. I tested various virtual memory settings, and I can tell you ACID is hungry (he consumpted all my free hard disk place). Right now I try working with a swap file of min. 300 and max 500 MB. That should be enough. ...maybe I should rearrange my project, but on the other hand ACIDMusic 3.0 worked fine with it. |
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Subject:RE: ACID 4.0a on Laptops
Reply by: antistar
Date:9/23/2002 6:40:58 AM
:-))) Yours in not quite the cheapest gear, but for that amount of money I'd rather buy the newest apple powerbook. :-) |
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Subject:RE: ACID 4.0a on Laptops
Reply by: Polaris20
Date:9/23/2002 7:26:20 AM
":-))) Yours in not quite the cheapest gear, but for that amount of money I'd rather buy the newest apple powerbook. :-)" Then you'd have to run Ableton Live or Phrazer (which sucks) because there's no Acid for Mac. My buddy tried running 3.0 in Virtual PC on his 867Mhz G4, and it sucked. So he bought Ableton, which is ok. His notebook was also $3500 bucks though, not exactly a bargain. |
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Subject:RE: ACID 4.0a on Laptops
Reply by: pwppch
Date:9/23/2002 7:56:46 AM
What is your audio buffer setting? This is set on the Preferences Audio page. For WDM/MME it defaults to 350 ms. You might try lowering this to between 50-150 ms. Does the Ali Aduio Accelerator have ASIO drivers? If so, what are the ASIO driver buffer settings? Peter |