Hello there, i’ve been having problems with my laptop ever since i bought a brand new hdd and installed a fresh copy of windows 7.
Waveforms are sluggish in both serato and traktor (vdj works fine tho), and traktor is MIGHTY slow. It takes about 10 seconds to get into the settings menu, let alone browsing and loading tracks.
Serato also crashes when i load some of the tracks, and i have these weird cpu spikes when doing absolutely nothing.
My specs are: quadcore i7 (2ndgen) @2ghz, 8gb ram @1333, WD caviar black 7200rpm 750gb, nvidia gt540m 2gb.
OS: Win7 Ultimate x64 (genuine), followed every optimization guide out there.
The disk is defragmented every week by a good third party defragger, i have about 180gb used on the disk, now this is only music, on the laptop i have installed just serato, traktor, vdj, chrome, itunes and the defragger. NOTHING ELSE.
TL;DR So if any of you know of any slipstreamed installs of windows 7 that are specifically targeted at and optimized for music production/djing, that would be GREAT.
Thank you
Luka
EDIT:
-also, “get a mac” , yeah i would, i’m just waiting for the next-gen retinas to come out because the 15 has an overheating issue.
Unless you’ve filled your computer with bloatware, a standard Win7 install should perform pretty well. Certain tweaks may be necessary depending on your exact hardware though.
The Windows 7 machine I’m using right now works great for Traktor and I haven’t optimised a thing.
There has to be something on your machine that’s bogging it down. I’m running Traktor on an old i3/3gb/win7 laptop with no issues whatsoever. The more I read these threads, the more I think people blame Windows for not knowing how to use a computer.
Believe me i do know what i’m doing with the computer. I tried everything humanly possible, from manually disabling services one by one to modifying registry keys. Nothing helped…
Yep i’m running an x64 install…
Cpu spikes are in serato, cpu usage never goes above 25/30%. The only processes that are using the cpu are seratodj and audiodg (yes i tried the audiodg “fix”, and it did nothing..), which i guess are essential to audio reproduction..
If usage never goes above 30% it’s not really a spike, or a problem worth worrying about.
What kind of read/write speeds do you get out of your HDD? My Traktor browsing+searching is pretty much instantaneous, and my music is all stored on a slower WD Green drive.
Everything is set to the max, so 100% for battery and 100% for grid operation (both min and max), high performance mode, i even tried with avg pc tuneup, disabled aero, cleartype and all enhancements.
When serato starts i have a 5000+us max spike, but then it goes back down to around 180us…
