Games on your music PC

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Next week i'll be buying my new computer (p4 1.8GHz, 512 MB DRRAM, Windows XP, ect). I will be using it mainly for recording but i dont want to have such a fast computer and not be able to use it on games. I've heard that its not really a good idea to do. Has anyone had any problems doing this? Are there any ways to avoide/reduce any problems playing games might have?
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I have Quake2, Half-Life, Diablo and Diablo2 installed on my computer. No problems here.
 
Cold,

The idea is to keep your music computer as "stripped down" as possible. No games screen savers etc. This will maximize the machines precious resources for recording. To handle the large amounts of data in digital music without crashes,clicks,pops,etc. you want the computer to be concentrating on your precious music, and not spending time on other frivilous tasks. Believe me, every bit of resources you can dedicate to music will improve the performance of your machine while recording and mixing.


The best solution for your situation IMHO, would be to use a dual boot option, one for music and one for everyday use. See the recent post by Paul881 called dual boot configuration for more info. Emerics dual boot tutorial is idiotproof. I can attest to that.

Twist
 
I agree with twise. My computer is a very multi purpose computer - internet surfing, word processing, graphic design, video editing, audio recording, gaming etc...

I have several computers in my house, but both my bro and I use this comp as it is the fastest. I have set up winxp for gaming and such and win2k is just here to run 3dsmax and audio recording....it is a good idea to run msconfig and disable ANY things unrelated to audio. I also have a dedicated partition for audio.

~Milkman
 
As mesh indicated,

I dont have problems either using my system for everything. I guess as long as your not running another program while your recording, and dont have your tray overloaded with garbage. As long as nothing is running in background, like firewalls,virus scans,guardians,etc.... you should be fine.
Now, if you got the dough, sure go out and buy a system dedicated to audio, I would. But I dont got the dough:D
 
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