running cwpa 9 on a weak computer......

[tcdave]

Has anyone loaded and tried to play cwpa 9.03 on a weak computer? I am going to try loading it on a 200 pentium with 24 megs of ram. I know the requirements are higher. What will happen? What was your experience?

Do you have any suggestions that will work on a 200 pentium with 24 megs of ram?

thanks,

tcdave

PS- Its for my 14 y.o. nephew wants to get into computer recording with his computer. I know its a old computer.

[j]

it will probably run, but i'd upgrade asap...though, for limited tasks it might not be that bad....you could probably replace the MB, RAM and CPU pretty cheap, which would increase performance....just a thought.

[dachay2tnr]

When I first bought CW PA9, I ran it on a 233 MHz Pentium.

The answer is, it runs, but your track counts and the amount of plugins you can use will be fairly limited. Most of this will result in dropouts - the audio will play for a second or two, then stop. It finally got frustrating enough for me that I upgraded to a 933 MHz PIII.

However, on the plus side, it will allow your nephew to start to learn the program and get his feet wet with recording. AND the price is right (I assume ).

[tcdave]

Thanks, yout helped alot.

Any more responses are welcome.

tcdave

[AlChuck]

I too ran PA9 on a wimpy machine, a Pentium MMX 200. It worked just fine for up to three or four tracks, but the issues beyond that were more an issue of drive speed (old regular IDE, 5400rpm). But with only 24MB RAM, that's barely enough to handle the OS adequately much less Cakewalk...

[James Argo]

My suggestion is to avoid recording audio track too much... It would be better for you using MIDI instead for "un-necessary to be focused" track. Save the audio track for recording vocals only. Mean while, dont use too many DirectX Plug ins. But hey... trying ain't no sin... just make sure your nephew save the project regularely...