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czar of bizarre
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hello fellow members i have a slight problem and questions. i have a pc which is an amd k6, 475 mhz,13 gig 5400rpm drive and 376mb of ram. i was running windows 98se about 1 month ago. i took it off because it would ALWAYS crash. it would NEVER crash while i worked a music application. it would crash when i would hit an MSN SIGHT or scrash starting up or shuting down. blue screen fatal exception stuff.
i took the pc in and had 98se yanked off and the guy installed 98. it still crashes on the msn sights but it doesnt crash in audio programs. so here is the first question i have. i checked for ram leaks and faulty directories. should i yank out the amd and get a pIII with 2000?
two of my programs seem to have ram issues with my setup. reason and acid. i exceed the basic requirements to run those programs. however with acid i CANT play back my wav files without stutter lag and gargle. if it is an acid file its cool. if its my file and i have a lot playing it acts up. at the bottom of the screen in acid i can see the ram and it isnt even going past 12mb.
i installed reason on my brothers pc. he is running windows me with 128 mb of ram and a 5400rpm hard drive with a pII. we ran each drum sound to its on channel on the reason mixer. the cpu usage meter barely moved. however when i start reason on my pc and just use the presets my cpu usage meter peaks. so my second question is what exactly is going on with my pc and reason vs his pc and reason? shouldnt my pc exceed his as far as performance? my resources are always between 92% and 96% when i boot up.
so heres a recap of questions:
1.should i remove the amd and get somthing else and install 2000?
2.why is my brothers pc handling the software better than my pc?
thanx guyz.
i took the pc in and had 98se yanked off and the guy installed 98. it still crashes on the msn sights but it doesnt crash in audio programs. so here is the first question i have. i checked for ram leaks and faulty directories. should i yank out the amd and get a pIII with 2000?
two of my programs seem to have ram issues with my setup. reason and acid. i exceed the basic requirements to run those programs. however with acid i CANT play back my wav files without stutter lag and gargle. if it is an acid file its cool. if its my file and i have a lot playing it acts up. at the bottom of the screen in acid i can see the ram and it isnt even going past 12mb.
i installed reason on my brothers pc. he is running windows me with 128 mb of ram and a 5400rpm hard drive with a pII. we ran each drum sound to its on channel on the reason mixer. the cpu usage meter barely moved. however when i start reason on my pc and just use the presets my cpu usage meter peaks. so my second question is what exactly is going on with my pc and reason vs his pc and reason? shouldnt my pc exceed his as far as performance? my resources are always between 92% and 96% when i boot up.
so heres a recap of questions:
1.should i remove the amd and get somthing else and install 2000?
2.why is my brothers pc handling the software better than my pc?
thanx guyz.