ok so ive just bought a new laptop as mine was really starting to struggle, didnt plan on gigging with it last night but the old one finally gave up the ghost so i had no choice.
the laptop i bought is a hp, win7 x64, 3gb ddr3, 500gb hdd (1tb external) & intel i3 processor, traktor pro 2.0.3
i got all of the crap uninstalled from it and had a general clean up, changed all of my windows settings to run high performance and ran game booster to further speed up cpu.
problems started right from the offset, i started getting really random dropouts, i checked all of my usb cables etc (they are all nice thick, short, ferrite beaded types) and cranked the latency right up. after about half an hour it became unbearable and i had to switch to cds for the following 4 hours.
I really dont know where im going wrong, my old lappy ran with 2gb ram and a crappy celeron m processor fine, it was just nearing the end of its life.
are there any cpu experts out here that may be able to tell me how to maybe speed it up (i read that the cpu as default shuts off one of its cores until needed, but you can change this so that it shares load over both, i just dont know how) or anyone that can give me an insight on something i may have missed.
i have another gig on sunday and 3 next week and really need to get this sorted. but please guys dont just say get a mac, christ if i could afford it i would but i cant lol.
I run a 64 bit win 7 machine as well mate. what i usually do is disable all the network drivers in device manager, turn off the batery and also disable acpi.sys as well. If you run latency mon, dpc latency checker you can isolate where cpu spikes etc are coming from. Disabling acpi.sys solved most of my issues. also gamebooster and disabling aero in win 7 will help man.
I cranked the latency right up and still no better, latency checkers brilliant, I have it on my desktop, and its hardly registering at all it says everythings fine
Cheers for all of the input guys, @ jester I disabled the network cards, bluetooth, battery, onboard sound, dvd drive, but not the acpi.sys, I haven’t came across this, what does it do when its on normally, also I forgot to mention the waveforms look like they are struggling a bit, kinda jubbery sometimes.
@ jester, where do i find the acpi.sys to disable it, ive had a look in device manager and its showing acpi fixed feature button, acpi lid, acpi power button and acpi thermal zone, all of these are in the system devices dropdown and in computer i have acpi x64 based pc, im guessing its none of the above, a tad lost??
EDIT: just seen the post by mixer miyagi, and its got me thinking, (all of this thinking after no sleep is gonna kill me!) im using a behringer bcd3000 controller, although i havent had any problems ive heard that the soundcards in them arent that great, do you think that running it on asio4all drivers as opposed to the behringer ones will help any??
Don’t worry about disabling acpi.sys, just try creating a power profile with all power saving (especially to to USB ports) disabled, that should sort it out.
hi jack, thanks for the input, i have created a high power plan but didnt do the usb, ive just done it so will see if it makes any difference, however i have read up on the acpi.sys and would still like to give it a try, i mean its gotta be worth a bash, where do i find it to disable it?
Go to control panel > power settings > change plan settings > advanced settings. Disable USB power suspend. This will keep max power flowing through the ports at all time. Also, under processor power management, set both the minimum processor state and maximum processor state to 100%. I’m no expert but I think this should keep both cores running at the same time.
Also, if you haven’t already, go to start and type in systempropertiesperformance. Check Adjust for best performance. This will make your comp look like windows 95 but frees up a lot of cpu. Also, go to start, type in msconfig, go to the tab that says startup, and disable any startup program you don’t need. This also frees up cpu.
Also, what sound card/controller are you using? I’ve had to contact NI support multiple times for help with the Audio 8, that thing is nothing but problems haha
cheers ryry, ive done all of that too but didnt know how to set the processor %ages like you said, ive now done it so fingers crossed, ive got to go grab a few hours sleep, back at work in 4 hours, if anyone else can think of anything, please just post it here, i will be most grateful, and will try as soon as i get up… once again this forum was the first place i turned for help and get nothing but quality answers, cheers guys.
im still none the wiser, the only thing that is giving me pagefaults is one of the svchost.exe files, and im still getting dropouts, i have now uninstalled ABSOLUTELY everything that doesnt need to be on the lappy, and disabled everything that doesnt need to be running, set cpu settings to 100% latency up / down / wherever, all of the steps that everyone has suggested and its still happening!! any other ideas guys??
I’m going to say that it’s NOT your computer running out of power, if that wasn’t evident already. Check the programs that are running in the background, they may be interfering. Also, do a spyware and virus scan.