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Flexa Flexa is offline
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Hi all! Its been a while since I last posted anything here. Been quite busy and have started a new job. I have however a slight problem. My friend recently went to work abroad and I have inherited his computer. It’s a p3 550 with 128mb sdram. It has logic 404 installed on the d drive with about 2gb of spare space on. When I run logic the midi works fine but when I try to import a wave file it gives the error message “Pc av: stopped device disk or cpu too slow. I have fiddled with just about every option and still it won’t work… Can it be that my p3 550 is not up to the job? I find that hard to believe. If anyone out there can help me then I would be very grateful. There might even be a reward!!! :O) Thanks again

-Flexa-

01-23-2001
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hypnotik2000 hypnotik2000 is offline
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hey there flexa,
i am a logic user myself and i used to get the same error messages. i may be of some service to you...
1) you need to make absolutely sure that your hard drive speed runs at at least 7200rpms. this is one of the most common reasons why people get error messages on computers that were meant for consumer use.
2) the pIII you have is fine, but i would recommend more ram. i added 256mb's to my existing 128 and found a considerable boost in performance. ram is so cheap now with 256 sticks going for like 100 bucks at:
http://www.pricewatch.com
3) make sure your soundcard allows recording and playback simultaneously. i know some consumer grade soundcards like the SB's don't allow you to do this. with the soundcard, find out if it has ASIO drivers. if it does, utilize them by selecting them for your logic drivers.
4) Reduce the color depth on the system to 256 if you are using a PCI
video card. If your video card is AGP, then set the Color Depth no higher
than 16 bit.
5) In the System Properties>Performance>Graphics window, reduce the
"Hardware Acceleration" setting.
6) In the System Properties>Performance>File System window, set the
typical role of the computer to either "Desktop System" or "Network
Server" Also, set the 'Read Ahead Optimization" to "None".
7) Switch off "Auto Insert Notification" for your CD drive.
8) In the "System.ini" file, limit the swap file size by inserting the
following lines under [vcache]

MinFileCache=8192
MaxFileCache=8192

9) try not to record long files. do not use many plugins at the insert points, use them in the busses.

all of these helped me a great deal, and the tips i have shared with you are endorsed by emagic so don't fear...
however, don't use all of these tips at once, take it one by one until your problem is solved...

peace,
hypnotik
http://www.mp3.com/hypnotik
01-31-2001
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Flexa Flexa is offline
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nice 1 m8 i'l give that a go.

02-05-2001
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bleek bleek is offline
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in regards to Hypnotik's post:

4) the optimal graphics setting is 16bit ... because at 256 colors modern graphics cards dont do any processing ... they leave it all to the CPU which is what you want to avoid. At 16bit they are working ... this setting is perfectly fine as far as graphics quality 65k vs millions of colors(32bit) ... in most situations you can not tell the difference. At 32bit you will be handling twice the amount of data for every graphics process.
So choose 16bit.

5) THIS is a BIG NONO and a HUGE misconception for the exact same reason as above. If you turn off the hardware graphics acceleration features ... THEN the CPU has to handle all graphics which means less horsepower for audio. When you turn this off windows treats ur card like a standard VGA card EVEN if you have a brand new Geforce 3. (You will notice when you do this you can no longer access the 'advanced properties' under display settings for your specific video card. If you have a bad *** GPU then dont turn it off ... use it to your advantage.

All the other recomendations are right on ... I would also add:

* Turn off animate windows (where the window grows and shrinks when u maximize or minimize it) This is ALL CPU handled because of how windows was written. you will notice the diff big time. click on something and it pops up immediately versus waiting for it to animate up.

* uncheck use all colors for icons. (you dont need your icons to be perty do you?)

* turn off active desktops (duh) and use a blank colored desktop versus the latest design trend background.

* turn off all system sounds and beeps. (they are annoying anyways.)

thats all i can think of for now other than try to run as little other software and background operations as possible

-bobby-
04-25-2001
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astral2222 astral2222 is offline
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make shure u are using the right audio driver if there is more options than 1 like asio/mme/what every try all of them .
second u have 128 megs ram .what progs do u have running on system ram look at the bottom right task bar , Is there a lot of junk like.virus scan /aol / difrent useless things .
try getting some of these resources out of ram .
uninstall and reinstall.
but it sounds like audio driver problem .
try downloading cubase demo and installing that then run asio driver in logic ,see if that works alot better..
05-06-2001
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solaris1207 solaris1207 is offline
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Chuck your PC out and get a MAC !!!
05-08-2001
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