Traktor 1.2.6. crashing, typically with lots of effects play on VCI100SE
Hey guys, yesterday during practicing before Saturday’s gig my laptop crashed twice, mostly during when messing too much with slice/echo jogwheel effects. Haven’t had such issues before with older versions! Is this common, are there any solutions to prevent stuff like this from happening? Increasing audio buffer?
I’m running it on a clean WinXP system, nothing else installed besides Traktor, all unnecessary devices turned off.
Traktor is ver. 1.2.6. legal, latest VCI100SE mapping. The crash is basically an audio “freeze”.
It’s a shit Acer Extensa 5620Z laptop, the freeze is the last buffer size from the audio card repeating over and over. Shit stops reacting altogether, I have to reboot manually. Thing is, it wasn’t happening before, and the only things I’ve added to the mix are the VCI100SE and program upgrade from 1.2.4. to 1.2.6.
Don’t think I can export the crash because it seems like it’s not with Traktor but the system itself. I’ll look into it. It’s also an offline DJ-only system of course to prevent issues.
OK luckily haven’t had any problems today. I think it might be that the audio buffer was too low for the machine to handle, also was fine with a laptop stand that allows better airflow and a different usb cable. Fingers crossed and burning backup CD’s for tomorrow just in case!
Yeah your on the low end of processing power but theres enough RAM.
How long does it take for the collection to load and how many tracks are in the collection?
Take into consideration that there are usually 2 times for collection load.
1 from a fresh start. Turn on laptop and start traktor.
And another after you close traktor and restart.
The restart will be quicker in most cases.
Collection load times increase dramatically every 10,000 songs (average) by about 40 seconds per 10,000.
My 32,000 song collection on my gig laptop takes on average 1min 25seconds
Also, you can route the vci through bomes - you’re not actually changing anything, but iirc according to some user on these forums routing it through bomes prevents overflow, which causes the freeze.
If you experience a freeze during a set, just rip out the midi cable to the vci-100. Audio will go back to normal within a couple of seconds, after which you can plug it back in.
