Protools M-Powered...

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Okay I bought a brand new Compaq Presario V2000 Notebook 1.8Ghz with 512 MB Memory. I installed Protools 7.1 M-powered on it and all the updated drivers and I keep getting this message.

"You are running out of CPU power. Remove some RTAS plug-ins or increase the CPU Usage Limit in the Playback Engine dialog. (-9128)"

Any Ideas?
 
Yeah, first thing to check it your playback buffers. For mixing, I'd set that to twice what RAM I have. For tracking, it has to be lower or the latency will get you. How many plug ins are you running? What kinds of plug ins?

Did you do the system optimizations recommended by Digidesign? Did you do the system optimizations recommended by www.musicxp.com?

You'll want to eventually add more RAM to your laptop. 512mb is rather low for a DAW.

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also, what CPU do you have? 1.8GHz is pushing it on the low end....Digi recommends you have a minimum of 2GHz processor. Also, what is your hard drive speed
Make sure nothing is running in the background either while using Pro Tools.
 
Also check in at

http://answerbase.digidesign.com

Type in the error code and scroll throught the answers and see if any of them apply to you. The "running out of CPU" error, especially if you don't have any plugs running, can be a sign that something is quite configured right or there is a conflict somewhere.

On my Mac, that error was caused by having Palm software running at the same time. Deactivating the palm stuff did the trick.

Take care,
Chris
 
sixways said:
Yeah, first thing to check it your playback buffers. For mixing, I'd set that to twice what RAM I have. For tracking, it has to be lower or the latency will get you. How many plug ins are you running? What kinds of plug ins?

Did you do the system optimizations recommended by Digidesign? Did you do the system optimizations recommended by www.musicxp.com?

You'll want to eventually add more RAM to your laptop. 512mb is rather low for a DAW.

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To answer your questions: I don't have any plugins running. I did the systems optimizations per both websites.
 
bennychico11 said:
also, what CPU do you have? 1.8GHz is pushing it on the low end....Digi recommends you have a minimum of 2GHz processor. Also, what is your hard drive speed
Make sure nothing is running in the background either while using Pro Tools.
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AMD Sempron 3000+ ....
I believe the Hardrive speed in the laptop is 4200 but I'm using a 7200 firewire drive for the session & audio files.

Its wierd because the last laptop I had worked fine and was a slower 1.5 Ghz amd athlon I had however upgraded the Harddrive 60 gig 7200 and Memory 768 MB.
 
Chris Shaeffer said:
Also check in at

http://answerbase.digidesign.com

Type in the error code and scroll throught the answers and see if any of them apply to you. The "running out of CPU" error, especially if you don't have any plugs running, can be a sign that something is quite configured right or there is a conflict somewhere.

On my Mac, that error was caused by having Palm software running at the same time. Deactivating the palm stuff did the trick.

Take care,
Chris
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Thanks I'll look into that see if I can find something.
 
I got no answers for ya man, but what interface are you using? My wife just ordered me Pro Tools, and I have the Jamlab right now. Just curious as to what you are using.
 
Dogman said:
I got no answers for ya man, but what interface are you using? My wife just ordered me Pro Tools, and I have the Jamlab right now. Just curious as to what you are using.
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Well this is my portable system... I'm using an M-Audio Ozone with it but there are more options basically anything M-Audio makes will work with the M-Powered version.

If you got LE I believe you're stuck with using an Mbox or 002.
 
bigwillz24 said:
Well this is my portable system... I'm using an M-Audio Ozone with it but there are more options basically anything M-Audio makes will work with the M-Powered version.

If you got LE I believe you're stuck with using an Mbox or 002.
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My wife ordferd me M powered, and that's why I got the Jambox, but I might want a a better interface. My preogram won't be here till Tuesday, but I've messed with the Demo version so far. Just curious as to your luck with stuff. I'm thinking something firewire, or usb to hook to the laptop, but need to get the program and learn it first.
 
Well ever since I got this new laptop lucks been bad but I'm workin on it.
 
sixways said:
Did you try increasing your playback buffer yet?

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I put it as high as it would go.

Thats helping a little but man is it slow.

I have 15 tracks with no plugins at all... All I'm doing is hitting the playback button sometimes it works and others it gives me the error message.
 
Update:

I went into safe mode. Then I went through and uninstalled just about every program that came with the computer. Then I went uninstalled/reinstalled Protools. Rebooted and everything seems to be working correctly. I say seems because I'm scared to cut the cpu off after I've gotten it to run halfway decent.
 
Update #2:

I went into the BIOS and noticed it was allocating 128MB to the graphics card. I changed that to 32MB and noticed a HUGE difference.

Then I went out and bought a 1GB stick for the notebook and Protools is running like a champ. :)
 
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