Whoopysnorp
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I have two PCs: a desktop with a 1.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo used mainly for mixing, and a laptop with a 2 Ghz Turion X2 used mainly for tracking (I live in an apartment so I have to go to our rehearsal space to track loud stuff). I have them both running Windows XP SP2 with all the necessary updates, etc., and configured in the same way. I use the same audio interface (RME Fireface 800) with both of them, and I even use the same Firewire external hard drive with both of them. Both machines have 2 gigs of RAM. Why, then, am I able to use a 96 ms latency with no problems on my desktop, and my laptop seems to require a latency of over 768 ms in order to record ~10 tracks of audio smoothly? I have done all the important tweaks you're supposed to do, like optimizing for background processes, disabling write caching, etc. Any way I can squeeze a lower latency out of the laptop?