Okay so I recently bought a friends used laptop, and have been having some issues with Traktor.
First off the specs:
160GB HD
2 GB Ram
On Board intel 954 video chipset
Windows Vista Home Premium
Anyways, My problem I am facing is that loading traktor is not an issue, but once inside, it seems to bog everything down, originally had cpu load issues and adjusted latency and everything accordingly as to not have anymore problems. However I am still having issues analyzing, loading my tracks, and am just plain stuck. Doing a bit of research, I think its safe to say its not a latency issues, songs seem to ‘play’ fine. I have read a few things placing a lot of blame on vista, could this be my issue? Or not enough ram? Video adapter?
I’d say it’s your computer. My computer has about twice the amount or RAM, and while I’m playing a track and laoding up another, there’s a slight visual “hiccup”. If Traktor is analyzing tracks at the same time then I run into actual stalls and audio dropouts.
This is all with TP2. When I had Traktor Pro 1, I had no problems whatsoever.
TP2 as well.
I’ve tried the tricks, such as multicore processors, setting my afinity, and disabling lan.
I just upgraded the ram, it came with 512 :O, but its at 2 gigs now.
I know vista is a resource hog, but wasn’t sure if it would relate to the issues.
I doubt Vista is the issue. I used Vista for a short time with TP1, and didn’t experience any issues whatsoever. For me, TP2 seems to be a bit of a resource hog, and that’s with 4gb of ram. I’d say it’s your computer.
I tried all the PC optimization tricks too, and the difference was either negligible, or non-existent.
Which version of TP2 are you using? I upgraded to 2.5, but noticed the CPU load was noticeably higher, so I decided to use a previous version instead.
upgrade RAM and upgrade OS to Win7 and don’t install anything on it, and only use it for Traktor, it should be happy, but without out knowing what CPU you have i have on clue for your outcome
Yeah in addition to RAM, which is used when accessing the actual audio files you’re playing, processor is also pretty important if you’re doing any processing (for lack of a better word) on the audio file- time stretching, pitch shifting, adding effects, etc. In addition to just speed, make sure you check if its dual-core or quad-core (quad-core obviously being better)- I know sometimes we just look at what number is higher and not the long words after the number!
I’m just gunna take a guess here and say if your computer came with 512mb with RAM I would guess that it’s an old laptop so your cpu would be letting you down.
Don’t focus to much on RAM, The basis of having a good CPU will help your problem.
I appreciate all the assistance, I have returned the computer.. 1.66Ghz was not cutting the processing ability.
Got my money back, and going to divest a bit more money into a better piece of equipment. I guess as the story goes ‘You get what you pay for’..
Yup… that’s true. I would sure like a better processor in my laptop, but I gather laptop processor upgrades are a tricky business and a new laptop isn’t going to happen for now.
on the subject of ram, i noticed when fiddling about with resource monitor that traktor creates 3 processes per deck, one for transient, one for stripe and one which is the track itself - so if you’re using wav’s and have 4 decks running, thats a reasonable chunk of ram right there
and those processes are disk based, so the read speed of your disk can also slow you down
or even 1…