Drawing contents of events...a question -ACID Product Family

Subject:Drawing contents of events...a question Posted by: porkjelly Date:10/30/2008 6:45:32 PM Why does enabling this option in Preferences make ACID Pro operate super duper slow? This only seems to happen when I'm zoomed into a project past a certain ratio. After that, everything from moving the scroll bar to accessing a menu slows down to an aching crawl, all the while accessing the hard drive and temporarily freezing while it does. The help file says unchecking thig option can help performance on some systems. I assume that means on slower systems, however, I have a newly-built PC with a fast CPU, fast graphics, more RAM than Windows will recognize etc., yet the program can't seem to catch up. This has been the case with the past several versions of ACID Pro. This is a question that's been on my mind since the past several versions of ACID. I've always thought it was some kind of bug, and have even dealt with tech support personally to try and figue it out, but we were never able to resolve it. It was only recently that I discovered that it had something to do with this option. Is there some kind of workaround for this problem? Message last edited on10/30/2008 6:48:34 PM byporkjelly.
Subject:RE: Drawing contents of events...a question Reply by: porkjelly Date:10/31/2008 10:17:55 AM Can anyone answer this one for me? If there is no solution/workaround for this, maybe a future update could include the ability to toggle this on and off via a keystroke instead of having to go through Options > Preferences > General every time. Thanks. Message last edited on10/31/2008 11:15:04 AM byporkjelly.
Subject:RE: Drawing contents of events...a question Reply by: pwppch Date:10/31/2008 11:22:20 AM I am not seeing the behavior you are describing. What zoom ratio starts to exhibit this behavior? Are you working audio/MIDI/both? Peter
Subject:RE: Drawing contents of events...a question Reply by: ForumAdmin Date:10/31/2008 11:38:24 AM I don't think anyone here has ever been able to reproduce the issue you describe. Does this happen for all types of Clips? Does this affect MIDI as well as audio clips? Does it occur with a few events or only when there are many events? Very long events or even short events? Do you have another system you could try this on? Your system specs in your profile seem like they should be more than adequate. Perhaps there is something hardware specific about this problem, I'd first suspect your video card... As much information as you can provide to help us narrow down the source of the problem would be helpful. I don't think this problem affects many users or we would be aware of it. I suspect there is something different about your system that we need to look into to resolve this. Thanks, --j

Subject:Drawing contents of events...a question

Posted by: porkjelly

Date:10/30/2008 6:45:32 PM

Why does enabling this option in Preferences make ACID Pro operate super duper slow? This only seems to happen when I'm zoomed into a project past a certain ratio. After that, everything from moving the scroll bar to accessing a menu slows down to an aching crawl, all the while accessing the hard drive and temporarily freezing while it does.

The help file says unchecking thig option can help performance on some systems. I assume that means on slower systems, however, I have a newly-built PC with a fast CPU, fast graphics, more RAM than Windows will recognize etc., yet the program can't seem to catch up. This has been the case with the past several versions of ACID Pro.

This is a question that's been on my mind since the past several versions of ACID. I've always thought it was some kind of bug, and have even dealt with tech support personally to try and figue it out, but we were never able to resolve it. It was only recently that I discovered that it had something to do with this option. Is there some kind of workaround for this problem?

Message last edited on10/30/2008 6:48:34 PM byporkjelly.

Subject:RE: Drawing contents of events...a question

Reply by: porkjelly

Date:10/31/2008 10:17:55 AM

Can anyone answer this one for me?

If there is no solution/workaround for this, maybe a future update could include the ability to toggle this on and off via a keystroke instead of having to go through Options > Preferences > General every time.

Thanks.

Message last edited on10/31/2008 11:15:04 AM byporkjelly.

Subject:RE: Drawing contents of events...a question

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/31/2008 11:22:20 AM

I am not seeing the behavior you are describing.

What zoom ratio starts to exhibit this behavior?

Are you working audio/MIDI/both?

Peter

Subject:RE: Drawing contents of events...a question

Reply by: ForumAdmin

Date:10/31/2008 11:38:24 AM

I don't think anyone here has ever been able to reproduce the issue you describe.

Does this happen for all types of Clips?

Does this affect MIDI as well as audio clips?

Does it occur with a few events or only when there are many events?

Very long events or even short events?

Do you have another system you could try this on? Your system specs in your profile seem like they should be more than adequate. Perhaps there is something hardware specific about this problem, I'd first suspect your video card...

As much information as you can provide to help us narrow down the source of the problem would be helpful.

I don't think this problem affects many users or we would be aware of it. I suspect there is something different about your system that we need to look into to resolve this.

Thanks,

--j