S4/ S2 Windows users - Still have crackle and pop issues?

[scamo]

Hi,

I was wondering, how many of you have Traktor S4 or S2 and are still plagued with the crackle and pop issues or have you finally gotten your Windows setup crackle and pop free.

Please vote!

scamo

[DJAdamDaniel]

fresh windows install and updating to latest version of traktor helped me loads

[scamo]

Thanks for voting and the feedback.

There are for sure a lot more S2 and S4 users out there, aren't there?

If so, please vote!

scamo

[ricoot]

With my vci-100 and audio2dj it was a disaster, even with a fresh windows install and updates.

Switched to a S2 last month and did a clean windows install.
Fully updated windows and TP2.
I use a seperate partition with windows for TP2 so there is no other software installed. Dedicated and pure fresh windows.
Not much that can go wrong i guess.

[scamo]

Good info. Thanks.

scamo

[Steve Zorilow]

Small intermittent problem, happening once in a while, inconsistent on an ASUS N61JV.

Symptoms:
- Audio stop for 2 seconds or so
- small audio pops when switching from Traktor to any other application, or from Full Screen to Normal screen

This laptop have 2 different video chipset (Intel & Nvidia). It switch between them depending of the application need. You can easily spot which chipset is currently in use by checking the color of the LED on both end (White or blue... White NVida, Blue Intel).

Resolution:
- Force to use NVidia driver when running Traktor & other regular application you may want to run in background. You just need to add the application in the NVidia control panel.
- disable any power-saving in NVidia control panel

Solved.

ib4 the first "I've got a MAC plah plah plah"

[scamo]

Hey, this is turning into a pretty good "tips and tricks" thread. I didn't plan that. But, hey! Please do keep up giving up the "How I fixed my Windows setup" stories. This is great stuff!

Here is mine:

All I had to do is turn off my WLAN and make sure the anti-virus software isn't doing its checks. I also turned off the ACPI battery manager. Now my i3 piece of crap Lenovo runs like a charm with Traktor. Only very, very rarely do I get a quick chirp. But only very rarely. I would also get a better computer, before I should ever perform for a live audience.

scamo

[DJAdamDaniel]

Hey, this is turning into a pretty good "tips and tricks" thread. I didn't plan that. But, hey! Please do keep up giving up the "How I fixed my Windows setup" stories. This is great stuff!

Here is mine:

All I had to do is turn off my WLAN and make sure the anti-virus software isn't doing its checks. I also turned off the ACPI battery manager. Now my i3 piece of crap Lenovo runs like a charm with Traktor. Only very, very rarely do I get a quick chirp. But only very rarely. I would also get a better computer, before I should ever perform for a live audience.

scamo

as stated above i did a fresh install (on 2nd partition) of windows 7 64-bit. turned off unwanted things like aero, used high performance profile and that was it. i can happily switch between full-screen traktor and firefox and browse the net and back again with 2 tracks playing and no latency higher than 500-600 us and no audio issues.

previously had 32-bit win 7 running a vms4 which had issues with both traktor and vdj.

best info i found to help was http://www.native-instruments.com/kn...dio+processing

[Ftruck]

Small intermittent problem, happening once in a while, inconsistent on an ASUS N61JV.

Symptoms:
- Audio stop for 2 seconds or so
- small audio pops when switching from Traktor to any other application, or from Full Screen to Normal screen

This laptop have 2 different video chipset (Intel & Nvidia). It switch between them depending of the application need. You can easily spot which chipset is currently in use by checking the color of the LED on both end (White or blue... White NVida, Blue Intel).

Resolution:
- Force to use NVidia driver when running Traktor & other regular application you may want to run in background. You just need to add the application in the NVidia control panel.
- disable any power-saving in NVidia control panel

Solved.

ib4 the first "I've got a MAC plah plah plah"

Saweet I'm about to get my S4 and the machine I'm going to be using it with is an N61JQ the same as yours except with an ATI 5730 instead of the GT325 and a quad core i7 instead of the i3 or i5. It's encouraging that someone on more or less the same hardware has it working. It does make sense that the Optimus switching could cause issues with Traktor.

[scamo]

Any more S4 or S2 users out there?

scamo