Hey, so I've been DJing for a while now, recently got a recurring gig in a local bar last week, and though not noticable to the trashed clients, it was noticable to me and more importantly, the manager.
Basically, Traktor runs fine unless I
A) start doing other things outside of Traktor, like looking at facebook (I have a dual monitor set up at home)
B) Search or half the time when I'm loading a song into another deck.
My laptop is running Windows 7 64-bit, AMD Dual Core blah blah, 2.4 or 2.6 GHZ, 4 GB of ram.
Now I know, I could always have more ram and a faster processor, (inb4 get a mac), but there's another DJ at the club on saturdays, he plays cheesey 80's and what not, he also uses Traktor, and another DJ that plays indie on wednesdays who uses Traktor.
Now, Cheese has a crap laptop, a craptop, if you will, his music collection is huge compared to mine (Triple figures in the GB. Blatant pirate, he even admits to people, yet he's still high payed and the manager doesn't realise he's cheaping on the job. Anyways, balls to him), and he runs fine without a hitch. Like, insulting smoothly. Then Indie Boy, he has a collection around 30 GB, but he uses an entry level mac (When I say entry level, I mean like, 3 year old entry level) and I know it's a Mac, but it has lower specs than my laptop and I just refuse to believe these two guys can get away with it when I'm stuck here with a (relatively) beast of a laptop that for some reason is failing.
From other people who have suffered a similar fate, they suggested that it was to do with my graphics chip, and this I could understand, the chip on this laptop is it's only let down, I recall it being an ATI Radeon x1200, and it runs Counter-Strike smooth at just under max settings. So I turned off aero, and this helped SLIGHTLY. Also, there's no way Cheese the Pirate has a better graphics chip than that in his tiny, dirty, illegitimate netbook.
I'm at an end here, I've closed down all background processes, turned off aero, all those streamlining methods, and it's still there. I'm sick of Cheese the Pirate and his craptop advising me on my setup, I need to fix this in the next few weeks or my gig is up and I'm back with no money haha.
Things I think it could be, but have no idea how to fix:
- Graphics Card. Well I do know how to fix, buy a new laptop. However, could the dual monitor settings be affecting it?
- External Hard Drive. it's a 1 TB seagate, my music library is 60 or so GB, since all the jumps are mainly when I'm accessing it, surely thats the problem... But how do I fix that? I've accessed files off my laptops C: and D: (it has two internal HDD's) and it's still done it if I recall.
Also, I'm not sure if this is the right forum, I know if anyone can help it's you guys, and there's no general help section on these forums so... I guess this goes here.
Please help!
Edit: I forgot to mention Cheesebeard's cracktop (can you sense my distaste towards him?) is running vista, 64 bit apparently.
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