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MegaHurtz ·
Alright so heres the deal, i got this laptop 2.3 dualcore with 3 gigs of ram.. hooked up to an emu 0204. Whenever i try to make some music with it its performing like absolute crap, i cant do a passage without it lagging itself into oblivion. So practically cant make music on it. This shouldnt be right..right? Also the cpu sucks up 50 percent of my ram already?? Am i being hacked, i recal my old p1 actually performing good enuf to do music.
Whats the deal here?
nix ·
hmm, would it be a big hassle to reinstall Windows? That doesn't sound right at all. Also maybe try a different soundcard? What OS are u on? Vista use like 700 mb RAM here. damn edit-yep, check task manager like oddson say man
oddson ·
If your running the OS as you got it 2nd-hand you never know what's going on...
If a clean OS install is not in the cards you should at least see where the CPU is getting sucked-up in Task Manager.
DigitalWhiteByte ·
I use this little application to test the systems if they have any type of service, application or hardware that causes some drop or overload on the cpu, and obviously test it without any antivirus running. http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
infuzion ·
I answered your question likely even before your laptop was built: [old link]
DigitalWhiteByte wrote: I use this little application to test the systems if they have any type of service, application or hardware that causes some drop or overload on the cpu, and obviously test it without any antivirus running. http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
Awsome! In the WiKi that link goes, not to mention the file goes on my HDs 😉
MegaHurtz ·
Thx for the tips, Ill get on it right away. Maybe the emu is terrible at doing this since my direct sound is way better at preserving flow.
MegaHurtz ·
Im at the point i dont think its the ram at all, seeing i rarely use above 1Gb anyway. Im now about scanning everything. using hijackthis to anihilate some stuff. But this raises some questions. There seems to be an account named: account unknown(S-1-5-21-3580501473-2249337804-1531111175-1009) Only showing up in permissions but not in accounts. Whats up with that?
Oh and btw Im on windows7 showing about 10.000K for windows explorer and dwm. And some misc. 2.000k (virusscanner/msn/samsung kies/virtual drive/emuCP/akai MPD) so the ram may be accounted for, but the lagging is a bit out of place.. it seemed to get worse also. Never worked good but it has worked better before. Did I fail to mention Synthmaker works flawless 🙂
trogluddite ·
MegaHurtz wrote: Did I fail to mention Synthmaker works flawless 🙂
You have SM 3.0 already?! 😉
tor ·
About the account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Identifier
I remember wondering about the same thing a looooong time ago. 🙂 But as implied... i'd reinstall windows. Something you should do from time to time anyhow if you install and uninstall lots of programs or use it online for some time and especially if you got it second hand.
Personally i prefer Linux for office and network and windows serves as creative playground 🙂
MegaHurtz ·
I will revert to formatting windows some day soon. But i found out a way to do music now. On the upside doing some heavy dsp without stalling at all 🙂 using the standard full duplex driver, submitting the emu as a dac.
infuzion ·
Ah, driver issue then?
MegaHurtz ·
Yea I hope its the driver for the remote chance it may get fixed one day. They do sound nice tho. Result a squeeky clean pc! Did find a Hkey hack and tonns of other nasty stuff :p Must be me being a typical pc user.
MegaHurtz ·
trogluddite wrote: MegaHurtz wrote: Did I fail to mention Synthmaker works flawless 🙂
You have SM 3.0 already?! 😉
Yust very luvydubby with it.
DigitalWhiteByte ·
MegaHurtz wrote: luvydubby?
how to translate into Italian? 😀
MegaHurtz ·
società l'amore con lei
società is a verb in dutch dont know about italian?
DigitalWhiteByte ·
MegaHurtz wrote: società l'amore con lei
società is a verb in dutch dont know about italian?
liaison amorous? 😍
infuzion ·
DigitalWhiteByte wrote: MegaHurtz wrote: società l'amore con lei
società is a verb in dutch dont know about italian?
liaison amorous? 😍
non, "luvydubby" e simile ad amare come un bambino
DigitalWhiteByte ·
Thanks, now I know another word to use 😉
tor ·
actually i just recently installed a stripped down windows XP with virtualbox in linux to have synthmaker on my laptop. it works flawlessly on this old machine 🙂
MegaHurtz ·
I recal the Open Labs computers running an optimised windows platform yust for music. May be useful to get into that bootloading stuff.
tor ·
I was not aware of Open Labs. Must say this is sexy: http://www.openlabs.com/nekoxxl.html
When i say stripped down I just mean i have disabled all visual candy and all possible services not needed for running pure audio aps. It boots in 10-12secs. Hehe if i had a Core i7 CPU with sandyB i'd probably go for win 7 with full graphical candy fx turned on :P
So this is what my ubuntu destop look like with SM running under XP in vitualbox:
trogluddite ·
tor wrote: stripped down
Yes, you shouldn't need to go as far as a 'customised' OS. You just need to kill anything that can stall all your pipelines with no warning.
Has to be said, one of the best ways to do this is to disconnect your internet connection and disable your anti-virus etc. Those things can be absoluter b***ers for hogging the processor completely at random. I've never had my main music machine on-line, and after 3 years it still runs as fast as the day I bought it. If you really must reply to mail (or spy on your facebook friends, he he) at all times, get a cheap second-hand netbook that can get virus'ed to hell without screwing anything important.
If that is too much of a sacrifice - at least try using a few different anti-virus software's - some are better than others. Also beware of app's that auto-update - many of them will run a little app as a background task that scans the web looking for updates - and you never know when! Better to do manual updates, so that you are in control (and can wait for 'early-adopters' to check that the updates are bug free!!).
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