Improving Acid - repsonse and playback -ACID Product Family

Subject:Improving Acid - repsonse and playback Posted by: mista k Date:2/11/2008 11:54:54 AM When I start my Acid 6 - on the bottom there is the RAM usage - for instance - 20MB/2048 Does this mean that it is only seeing 2 GB of RAM? I have 4 in my system and is there anyway to allow more for ACID 6? I believe a 32 bit operating system ( windows xp ) can only use 4gb RAM - is that correct? If so - does that mean Acid can use 4GB? I have a new system - quad 4 4gb RAM ( high quality ) plenty of hard space at 7200 rpm and in a given project with about 40 tracks - 10 VST's it begins to chop up and I cant get smooth playback until i mix down. I know that I am running a lot of tracks but my work demands it - Is Acid capable of handling the workload? I know my that it cannot be my computer or can it? btw - I right clicked taskbar and went to task manager - processes and right clicked acid.exe and set priority to the highest I think its called realtime setting - and it still chops up. Message last edited on2/11/2008 11:56:14 AM bymista k.
Subject:RE: Improving Acid - repsonse and playback Reply by: Kennymusicman Date:2/11/2008 12:47:00 PM AFAIK all Sony apps are not large-address-aware, and therefore none of them see above 2gb. I'm hoping they all will with the next releases (but I could easily be wrong on them not being LAA)

When I start my Acid 6 - on the bottom there is the RAM usage -
for instance -
20MB/2048

Does this mean that it is only seeing 2 GB of RAM? I have 4 in my system and is there anyway to allow more for ACID 6?
I believe a 32 bit operating system ( windows xp ) can only use 4gb RAM - is that correct? If so - does that mean Acid can use 4GB?

I have a new system -
quad 4
4gb RAM ( high quality )
plenty of hard space at 7200 rpm

and in a given project with about 40 tracks - 10 VST's
it begins to chop up and I cant get smooth playback until i mix down.
I know that I am running a lot of tracks but my work demands it -
Is Acid capable of handling the workload?
I know my that it cannot be my computer or can it?

btw -
I right clicked taskbar and went to task manager - processes and right clicked acid.exe and set priority to the highest I think its called realtime setting - and it still chops up.