Guest Mike Indidginus Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Morning all Does anyone have any top tips for minimizing this? I've tried the usual (making sure background processes are minimal, bouncing down tracks so as to avoid loads of inserts, vstis etc), altering virtual memory & vcache settings in Windows, disabling startup items, ensuring DMA is on & so on) but my current track (30 audio channels at present) is still causing my system resources to fall to around 10 - 15%! Normally I couldn't care less, but this is effecting playback I have an Athlon XP1700 so it should deal with this dammit! Any help/advice/jokes would be much appreciated Have good days & enjoy the weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Full Lotus Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Upgrade to W2K so you can monitor your reources better and kill them if need be.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lifeform Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Hey mike, i got some a few sites for you to check out about omptimizing your PC for audio. althought... Full Lotus probably has the best solution... But here we go... http://www.bluelifeaudio.com/~pcconfig/ ...that's a really good site that will set up with with alot of cool tweaks. Straight from the site... THese are 2 of the best tweaks for 98 i think. I use XP, so i dont really have to tweak it at all. That might be another solution if you can take that step forward. I know i know... that's asking alot... "add the following line to your system.ini file after the [386 Enh] tag so it looks as follows: [386 Enh] ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 this makes the system use ram more often rather than the virtual memory. this improves system performance since ram is much faster than the hard-disk. (note: do not use this option if you have less than 128MB of ram installed). (go to 'Start'>'Run' and type system.ini - a notepad will be launched containing the system.ini file. add the above line after [386 Enh] so it looks as above. there will be other lines in the section you're adding to, just add it before them. now save the changes you made and close the notepad - as ever, you will have to restart for the change to take effect). also add or edit the entry after the [vcache] tag in system.ini so it appears as follows: [vcache] MinFileCache=16384 MaxFileCache=16384 this limits the amount of your system memory (ram) that windows uses as a buffer or cache when reading from or writing to disk drives to 16MB instead of the cubase default of 1/4 of your system ram/memory which is often too high. if the [vcache] tag does not exist in your system.ini, add it after the [386 enh] tag and it's contents so i looks as above. " Good luck. If you want more sites... and could probably whip you up a few. BTW... What version of cubase are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lifeform Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 ...Another thing mike. I dont want to insult your intelligence cause you may have already known this but in your audi perferences... There is a few things you can tweak in there to give you audio tracks some boost. If you have lots of RAM max out each of the buffer sizes in there. I forget the names... But once your in there you'll know what i mean. Theres 2 of them related to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Indidginus Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Thanks chaps I'm not keen to upgrade as I'm not sure how the software I have will deal with that. Also I really don't want to go through the pain just now - I'd rather get on with the track I'm writing I've done those tweaks already Lifeform Conservativeswapfileusage - with & without didn't seem to make any odds. My vcache (min & max) is 131072 (my RAM amount (512) * .256 (I read somewhere that this would give the optimum figure)). Again, with & without didn't seem to make very much difference. Never mind. I've also maxed out my Cubase audio buffers (I know the ones you mean ). I'll figure it out Thanks for your suggestions & have a groovy weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Indidginus Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 I've just had a look at that site Lifeform, & the bloke mentions Norton Utilities using up a lot of system resources. Guess what I've got installed on my machine? I'm going to try uninstalling it to see if that helps Thanks man And then I'm going to have a go at Mongolian throat singing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strumpling Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Lifeform's a p1mp! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lifeform Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 heellllllzzzz yeeeehhhh biooottchh! ...Glads i could help, mike. : D heh...heh...heh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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