Adobe Audition/Maudio 1010 playback stuttering

undrgrnd studio

undrgrnd studio

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I have my 1010 and AMD based system up and running. I mixed a complete song using audition and the 1010 to my KRK RP8's. Now when I playback the entire song with all 8 tracks and realtime fx like compression and delay, I get a stuterring that just won't stop. I restarted the PC, but that didn't help. It was working before, but would pop, click, or stutter here and there. Now it's completely unuseable.

I'm using an AMD athlon 2600, 768 MB DDR PC 2100 ram, 133 Mhz FSB, with Win XP pro.

I have been having trouble with the PC lately I will admit. When I restart my PC, sometimes it will show the processor as a Duron with only 100 Mhz FSB instead of 133 Mhz. Then it will go into a loop mode asking me to start windows normally or in safemode, when I choose normal the PC will cycle through this process about 4 times before loading windows. But the PC works just fine when it's up and running. No problems whatsoever.
 
Sounds like you're running out of processing power... take a look at your system, and its fairly clear why.. plug ins are very cpu intensive.. and having a few running at once will cause problems.

PC2100 is the slowest available DDR ram...
133 MHz FSB is also very weak, as most modern computer run at 533, or 800.
XP is a memory HOG.. and is probably eating up what little processing power you have.

Now.. to maximize what you have, do the following.

Back up all your data... all of it, porn and all.
Format your computer clean.. absolutely clean..
Do a fresh install of XP.
Install Audition.
get another hard drive (get one htats 40 gigs, they arent much money anymore)
use the second harddrive for your audio files..

With a fresh install, and separating your audio files, you should have less problems.

General rule of thumb, try to never have your audio files on the saem physical drive as your programs... (note: make sure its a physical drive, and not just a partitioned one)

Also, if you have a virus scan running, it will also chew up resources.. disable it in the meantime.. but be very aware.

If you have anymore q's.. pm me.
 
Take the side off the machine and make sure all the fans are running and the heatsink fins on the CPU etc are not choked up with dust. Use a soft paint brush to clean dust out and one of those disposable fabric anti-static cleaning brushes to mop up the dust or a small vacuum cleaner if you have one. You should be able to unscrew the cpu fan to get in all the fins.

Socket A Athlons can act most oddly if overheating.

If you're quick you can still get the Sempron 3000 CPU that fits in a Socket A motherboard - should be cheap by now. This will run with the full 166Mhz FSB and has a larger 512KB L2 cache (it's actually a Barton core Athlon XP and runs at a true 2GHz). Your motherboard must support this and you'll probably need the latest BIOS for it to be recognised correctly.
 
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