Testing stability...

[cellardweller]

I'm not sure where I read it, but I thought I saw somewhere that there was a program which could identify issues which may cause Ntrack to be very resource demanding/unstable. I found the thread on the N forum, but couldn't find anything there which seemed to be this.

If I even have, say 8 tracks running, with maybe 4 different plug-in's, and then move my mixer, it can cause a crash in N. I'm not sure what could be running which is sucking up my resources, but I've got a 2.2 processor, and plenty of RAM, and I always exit McAfee, or anything else beforehand...

Any suggestions, as this is becoming very limiting???...

Thanx in advance.

[TimOBrien]

What Build are you running? OS, PC data????

Some of the earlier builds had that problem and was fixed.

[cellardweller]

I had the latest version of N track, XP home,

I also had to dump water out of my computer about an hour ago...

It was plugged in, but not on when the deluge occured. A carpet shampoo-er thingy was knocked over by my son, or my dog, or my daughter, or whoever didn't want to claim responsibility for the action, and it promptly emptied approx 3 gallons of dirty carpet water, through the carpet, insulation, drop ceiling, then onto my CPU and monitor, ...

This whole post could be a moot point now, as well as any hope of recording in the near future.

[dix0r]

Originally posted by cellardweller
I had the latest version of N track, XP home,

I also had to dump water out of my computer about an hour ago...

It was plugged in, but not on when the deluge occured. A carpet shampoo-er thingy was knocked over by my son, or my dog, or my daughter, or whoever didn't want to claim responsibility for the action, and it promptly emptied approx 3 gallons of dirty carpet water, through the carpet, insulation, drop ceiling, then onto my CPU and monitor, ...

This whole post could be a moot point now, as well as any hope of recording in the near future.

wow...

i'm sorry man...that really sucks :x

[dave in toledo]

if its not trashed, downlad spybot search and destroy, and run it, then go to pc pitstop, and run that, it will help

[cellardweller]

It's not Trashed!!!

I'm on my way to find spybot now...

[Teej]

Yikes. CD? Were you able to resolve this issue? Anytime someone mentions instability when moving a window, i think video drivers. What card are you running? Up to date drivers?


tj

[cellardweller]

Beats me, it's an integrated chip I think...

If it were only the issue of moving the window, I could work around it, but last night with 8 tracks I was around 67% usage. Had I carelessly moved the window too much it would have without doubt crashed N. Granted, I was using more than the usual amount of plug-in's. How many should I be able to get away with?

PC pitstop turned up nothing. "You may be able to add a few system upgrades or tweak some Windows settings to improve performance", but didn't mention what these may be. It gave me a yellow flag on my version of windoze (?) and a "winner" flag on my video (?)...

As far as I know all of my drivers are up to date. It's only been a week or so since I checked the windoze site for driver upgrades...

I went ahead and payed for that "Spyhunter" software (I thought it was free!). It found 3 cookies and 3 registry entries which adaware and Mcafee had not detected. This didn't make any difference in N though... still 67% on that particular song...

Any suggestions on background processes I may be able to disable? I've already disabled quite a few per my more computer literate friends advice. ???

*EDIT*

Hmm, just looked at Teej's post about the N support site. It mentions under trouble shooting that "mismatched" sticks of ram can cause instability. Does this mean mismatched by type or numeric value (say, 256 and 512 mb?) Should I pull out my 256?

(I think this may be my longest post ever!)

[cellardweller]

http://www.musicxp.net/

Some fantastic info here. Can't wait to test these out tonight. I'm home but tending to sick children, maybe I can get him to take a nap and sneak downstairs for a few minutes... Anyone interested, go to the "tuning" page, where there are 26 items presumably to improve performance of WinXP.

If you haven't already check out the new N support site...

Thanx to all, yet again!
When I win the lotto, I'll hire all of you!

CD

[Teej]

haha.. i work cheap, CD! And i'm glad you like the new site. We've worked hard on it.


Generally, the same brand RAM should work fine together even if they're different sizes. It's when you mix brands that you can run into trouble. Try the Prime95 Torture Test for a few hours (or overnight). If Prime runs, your PC is stable and you can look at other causes of your problems. If Prime finds an error, pull one of those RAM sticks and try Prime again. You may find a bad stick.


tj

[cellardweller]

My woes of instability have been greatly reduced! Thanx to the Black Viper site, and many others too numerous to remember...

XP really does have a lot of Unnecessary CRAP running in the "service" department....

Thanx
CD