Started pulling in gigs quickly. Have a few questions to keep my setup stable.

[manchild]

Specs seem good, but not all laptops handle real time audio processing the same. Best bet is to increase latency in addition to all the other things you are doing already. External hard drive will not help with the issue. A faster hard drive will help with song load up times, and in some instances browsing and sorting songs on the fly. An external hard drive connection in most cases will be a lot slower then your internal one (most people are forced to use USB)

[mor4sso]

Thanks everyone for your advice! I'll try some things and get back to you guys.

[The Pancaker]

I usually turn on and off all effect units, as well as loading the effects and cranking them up and down before starting a set. I've noticed that loading effects and turning FX units on sometimes causes sudden spikes in CPU activity. Try doing that just in case...

[mor4sso]

I usually turn on and off all effect units, as well as loading the effects and cranking them up and down before starting a set. I've noticed that loading effects and turning FX units on sometimes causes sudden spikes in CPU activity. Try doing that just in case...

Generally, I only use about 3 FX, but I do turn them on and off across my channels very often.

I'll try that out as well though. Thanks man.

[brian_johnstone]

haven't used a windows laptop for a while but when i did i disabled the acpi compliant control (i think thats it) and ran the djtt optimising script, this sorted EVERYTHING and never had issues again, i was running 2 midi controllers, timecode, & fx on an i3.

[MeetsMandy]

Check your usb port, mine used to do this the problem was the usb, so I just used a different one and it's fine! Now I'm on cdjs so I don't have to worry about all this setting up stuff!

[AllDay]

haven't used a windows laptop for a while but when i did i disabled the acpi compliant control (i think thats it) and ran the djtt optimising script, this sorted EVERYTHING and never had issues again, i was running 2 midi controllers, timecode, & fx on an i3.

Gamebooster and smittens script will help out the OP.

Windows has so many useless things running in the background for no reason and traktor just gets worked by it.

[WTFumbles]

+1 to re-enabling multicore support. I read somewhere that Audio crackling can also be caused by plugging your controller into the USB 3.0 ports. I've experienced this issue first hand so I advise against using them for whatever device you have that contains the sound card.

[johnnypepp]

check out your advanced batterylife options, switched selective usb dropout to never and never had any problems after that anymore (yes even when your laptop is plugged in this can happen).

[FilthyDave]

Try this: http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-...arking-Utility

Basically Windows tries to park processor cores in order to save energy at every given opportunity. Which is great in the every day world but if you're doing audio production it sucks big time

I'd tried everything possible to get rid of glitches until I stumbled across this. Not had one since

Worked an absolute treat for me but I'm on Win 7 dunno about Win 8