Subject:nagging problems for 3yrs

Posted by: frogman06

Date:5/22/2007 11:56:44 AM

Major stuttering GUI & playing back.

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: PeterWright

Date:5/23/2007 2:30:07 AM

Your system should be able to handle, but -
How many tracks?
What type of tracks?
What project settings?
What types of hard drive - internal, external, USB, F/W etc?

May be worth having a look at upgrading to Core2 duo or faster

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: drbam

Date:5/23/2007 5:59:14 AM

I have an almost identical system but with a nvidia chipset video card (Matrox) and a Layla 24, 2 gigs ram. I can easily run 50 track sessions (minimal plugins). I assume you've tweaked your buffer settings so my guess is that your video card may be the culprit, especially since you're having some GUI issues. For what its worth, I've been told to avoid ATI cards and stay with nvidia. A few years ago I had some major glitching problems when rendering and found that my ATI video card was the culprit. Swithching to the Matrox card fixed it.

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:5/23/2007 11:32:41 AM

Your system looks pretty peppy enough to run ACID Pro quite nicely.

I have an ATI Radeon as well but I don't have any of the bells and whistles. (i.e., Just the basic video driver without CATALYST; I don't play computer games, so...) Runs just fine. I remember there being an issue with a certain driver version and Sony Creative's apps but that was ages ago and it was remedied.

Do you have anything running in the background?

Iacobus

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: frogman06

Date:5/23/2007 11:32:02 PM

nope
I think you tryed help me before with this.
still does it

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:5/24/2007 1:47:16 PM

Do you have a sound card built into your motherboard? What about disabling your echo card and trying the onboard card? Don't just try this - I'm throwing this idea out for discussion.

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: drbam

Date:5/24/2007 3:30:20 PM

"What about disabling your echo card and trying the onboard card? Don't just try this - I'm throwing this idea out for discussion."

I would do the opposite. Disable the onboard sound card (if there is one). The echo cards have probably shown to be the most stable of any brand with SonicFoundry/Sony apps.

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: frogman06

Date:5/24/2007 10:49:43 PM

its got to be video related somehow.
thanks everyone

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: coolout

Date:5/25/2007 1:24:27 AM

I have the solution because it happened to me the first time I installed a new video card.

I'm 99% sure that it's your PCI latency (not to be confused with your audio card driver latency).

Basically, there's a setting in your BIOS that gives each device (audio card, video card, etc.) a priority relative to each other.

When you install a new card, especially if it's meant for games, the installer automatically makes the video card the top priority.

Of course that means that the video card doesn't care if it's stealing cpu resources/cycles and your audio is snap, crackle, pop.

The solution is to dive into your BIOS, but quick fix is to use a 3rd party utility.

There are 3 or 4 of them out there...just do a google for "pci latency".

The one I use is called double dawg or something. It's the only free one I could find, but the only limitation is that you have to launch it everytime you boot up. The commercial version changes your pci latency automatically at start up.

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: frogman06

Date:6/2/2007 6:35:26 PM

thanks coolout
I think i try it once ..
ill try again :}

Subject:RE: nagging problems for 3yrs

Reply by: synthpup

Date:7/20/2007 9:12:53 AM

If I instead decide to go into the BIOS to correct this, do I have to do it everytime I start the machimme? Where do I find the control in the BIOS?