UNIVERSAL PERFORMANCE PROBLEM SOLUTION -ACID Product Family

Subject:UNIVERSAL PERFORMANCE PROBLEM SOLUTION Posted by: xgenei Date:1/7/2002 10:34:06 PM If you've got performance problems -- this is the one thing you can do for cheap money. I know a lot of you are thinking about NEW P4's, dual processors, Tyan Tigers and Athlon XP's, MP's, which is all fine except for one problem -- it won't solve the problem. This trick will just cut to the quick. A lot of you will get up & you won't need a new system. Meanwhile all you performance nuts that are screaming bloody at them sum-bitch's -- ya'll can just solve the problem. Here's the problem: a lot of you guys don't realize you're trying to drag race with the family station wagon. Anyway I don't want to run a one-person tutorial but here's a bulleted list that about fills that vehicle out: Work methods are like rubber on the road Product segmentation is the drive train (power transmission). Tweaks are the suspension Your underlying system hardware is the engine Your configuration is the frame & body (heavy-light, strong-weak, and all the connections) Software = gasoline *Problems = noises, knocks, poor performance. Obviously you don't blame the gasoline for failing to get you middle 9's in the quarter! Not if you pack the family in the same vehicle and pull your boat to the lake! Now I do have one sure-fire solution for you all. It's like nitro and O2. Move things around so that you got your system drive in a removable tray. BUY TWO OR MORE TRAYS cause you need two drives. NO EXCUSES. Then you buy yourself a brand new #1 system drive -- and we're up to $200 tops -- and you load NOTHING ON IT but Windows XP (okay then whatever ya got), plus your performance software. Don't do email, norton, GoBack, nothin. Don't get on the internet with it. Nothin, nothin, nothin but your Sonic Foundry list and what-have-you. Now you shut your old computer off, pull out your old hard drive with your life-history on it, and stick this one in there JUST TO DO YOUR CAPTURE & EDITING. Now you can concentrate on the main tweaks, like running a fixed size cache, and a Windows' memory manager like RamPage, and diving into your options menu to set your SF software preferences up, and MAYBE getting a little discipline in your work methods? I GUARANTEE half of you guys are going to be amazed. And no whining about having to get your email.
Subject:RE: UNIVERSAL PERFORMANCE PROBLEM SOLUTION Reply by: Woodsposse Date:3/14/2002 5:05:35 PM Totally disagree. No buying of new system parts, swapping HD's - and you don't NEED two drives. As I have said in previous posts - I have been professionally working with Acid 2.0 and 3.0 on a PIII 500 MHz, running Win2K ever since Win2K came out. No problems!! And, my system has every application under the sun loaded on it (my day gig is in IT Support). Key here is - not everything is running when I'm working with Acid. It's a very simple concept: System Resource Management Some of you may be trying to drag race with a station wagon...but I'm pretty positive I can get the desired results I'm looking for even on my old PI 166 - that is as long as the software can run on it and I know it's limitations. But hey...go out and spend money on stuff you think you need - heck, who knows...you just may need it. But, bottom line, check your system resources before even thinking of spending money for stuff you could easily fix with a mouse click or two.
Subject:RE: UNIVERSAL PERFORMANCE PROBLEM SOLUTION Reply by: PuffDogg Date:3/18/2002 9:40:11 AM Indeed. Purchasing a dedicated DAW is not an option for a lot of people, and there are plenty of tweaks one can do to get the most out of their digital audio environments. Sure, a second hard drive dedicated to audio files is a good idea, but, like Woodsposse says, SRM is pretty key. Create a seperate hardware profile that has network cards, non-essential USB devices, printers, etc. disabled. Use a start-up manager to manage what runs resident. Yeah, both these increase your boot time but it's what's a few minutes compared to buying a second PC. Defrag constantly, set Win to for best performance rather than best appearance, notch down you're hardware acceleration - really there are many, many tweaks that can help make PC perform better, and pages of web documents on how to impliment them.

Subject:UNIVERSAL PERFORMANCE PROBLEM SOLUTION

Posted by: xgenei

Date:1/7/2002 10:34:06 PM

If you've got performance problems -- this is the one thing you can do for cheap money. I know a lot of you are thinking about NEW P4's, dual processors, Tyan Tigers and Athlon XP's, MP's, which is all fine except for one problem -- it won't solve the problem.

This trick will just cut to the quick. A lot of you will get up & you won't need a new system. Meanwhile all you performance nuts that are screaming bloody at them sum-bitch's -- ya'll can just solve the problem.

Here's the problem: a lot of you guys don't realize you're trying to drag race with the family station wagon. Anyway I don't want to run a one-person tutorial but here's a bulleted list that about fills that vehicle out:

*Work methods are like rubber on the road
*Product segmentation is the drive train (power transmission).
*Tweaks are the suspension
*Your underlying system hardware is the engine
*Your configuration is the frame & body (heavy-light, strong-weak, and all the connections)
*Software = gasoline
*Problems = noises, knocks, poor performance.

Obviously you don't blame the gasoline for failing to get you middle 9's in the quarter! Not if you pack the family in the same vehicle and pull your boat to the lake!

Now I do have one sure-fire solution for you all. It's like nitro and O2.

Move things around so that you got your system drive in a removable tray. BUY TWO OR MORE TRAYS cause you need two drives. NO EXCUSES.

Then you buy yourself a brand new #1 system drive -- and we're up to $200 tops -- and you load NOTHING ON IT but Windows XP (okay then whatever ya got), plus your performance software. Don't do email, norton, GoBack, nothin. Don't get on the internet with it. Nothin, nothin, nothin but your Sonic Foundry list and what-have-you.

Now you shut your old computer off, pull out your old hard drive with your life-history on it, and stick this one in there JUST TO DO YOUR CAPTURE & EDITING.

Now you can concentrate on the main tweaks, like running a fixed size cache, and a Windows' memory manager like RamPage, and diving into your options menu to set your SF software preferences up, and MAYBE getting a little discipline in your work methods?

I GUARANTEE half of you guys are going to be amazed. And no whining about having to get your email.

Subject:RE: UNIVERSAL PERFORMANCE PROBLEM SOLUTION

Reply by: Woodsposse

Date:3/14/2002 5:05:35 PM

Totally disagree.

No buying of new system parts, swapping HD's - and you don't NEED two drives. As I have said in previous posts - I have been professionally working with Acid 2.0 and 3.0 on a PIII 500 MHz, running Win2K ever since Win2K came out. No problems!!

And, my system has every application under the sun loaded on it (my day gig is in IT Support). Key here is - not everything is running when I'm working with Acid. It's a very simple concept:

System Resource Management

Some of you may be trying to drag race with a station wagon...but I'm pretty positive I can get the desired results I'm looking for even on my old PI 166 - that is as long as the software can run on it and I know it's limitations.

But hey...go out and spend money on stuff you think you need - heck, who knows...you just may need it. But, bottom line, check your system resources before even thinking of spending money for stuff you could easily fix with a mouse click or two.

Subject:RE: UNIVERSAL PERFORMANCE PROBLEM SOLUTION

Reply by: PuffDogg

Date:3/18/2002 9:40:11 AM

Indeed. Purchasing a dedicated DAW is not an option for a lot of people, and there are plenty of tweaks one can do to get the most out of their digital audio environments. Sure, a second hard drive dedicated to audio files is a good idea, but, like Woodsposse says, SRM is pretty key. Create a seperate hardware profile that has network cards, non-essential USB devices, printers, etc. disabled. Use a start-up manager to manage what runs resident. Yeah, both these increase your boot time but it's what's a few minutes compared to buying a second PC. Defrag constantly, set Win to for best performance rather than best appearance, notch down you're hardware acceleration - really there are many, many tweaks that can help make PC perform better, and pages of web documents on how to impliment them.