Traktor hates me

[Quenepas]

Seriously, either make another windows partition for Traktor or,

get a Mac.

Someone was going to say it anyways!!

[nath_b]

Sooo first traktor would freeze all sound....I got that figured out by updating my drivers. Now it just freezes entirely. Like it will just repeat like 1 beat over and over and i cant control the levels or anything. i have a fast comp...im wondering if its cuz i dodnt disable anything. but idk. this is depressing. i cant gig out with it freezing up

Has it ever worked? If so, what have you dont since to make it stop? i.e. installed any other new software or drivers apart from the N.I. updates?

[Sherlock Ohms]

Have you tried running dpclat?

All the tunes coming off an internal drive?

get a Mac.

[josh@firestorm]

if you've ever had or currently have hotspot shield on your current windows install that buggers up everything beyond repair. it'll definitely give you the problems you have listed and dozens more.

[lethal_pizzle]

There is a full-on PC tweak guide in the NI knowledge database that covers every point made here, plus every point anyone is likely to make. Check that out.

[josh@firestorm]

theres been plenty of threads here and maybe even a blog post or two on optimizing windows pc's.

Jester knows of a good pc program for turning off unneeded services. It's designed for games but does the same job for an audio pc.

[photojojo]

http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

[josh@firestorm]

yep thats the one.. ^^^

[BennyJ]

I did that stuff on the ni site....and i may try gamebooster again for the simple fact that it turns crap off. thanks again. the reason i asked is cuz i did the ni's recommendations to fix one problem and other came up

[Jester]

Freezes usually mean you have a high dpc latency, regardless of your soundcard settings etc.
Turn off obvious stuff like your anti virus.
Run Latency Checker
What you are looking for is large intermittent spikes.
Run Latency Monitor
This tool tells you exactly what programs, services and whatnot are causing the issues and then ..
Disable your network adaptors, webcam and battery in device manager
Use Process Hacker to disable everything else you done need (very handy)
As the boys mentioned, gamebooster is also a handy 1 click tool for killing processes.
If you use a NI soundcard such as the Audio 4, i would suggest you roll back the drivers to 2.015 because the new drivers are shocking.

I run Win 7 64bit. Rolling back the Audio 4 drivers, Disabling the battery and Network Adaptors, Stuff like turning off Aero Peek etc solved the majority of my issues.
This is all covered in greater detail on the NI forum mate.