Will more ram fix this?

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I'm running windows 7 (32 bit) on an older dell computer that has pendium 4 HT processors and 2 gigs of ram. I have some latency when operating Nuendo. For instance when playing a song back it dosen't immediately stop when I click the stop button.. It only plays for a fraction of a second Longer but there is a tad of hesitation. Will upgrading to 4 gigs of ram remedy this or is it in the processors and operating system?
 
I would guess that what you're hearing is the audio buffer emptying. The bigger the buffer setting, the longer the sound you'll hear. Upgrading RAM won't change the length of this sound directly, but it may enable you to have a smaller buffer size, thus reducing this sound.

Anyone of a more expert nature able to confirm this?

What is your current audio buffer size, Jimi?
 
jonny deep said:
I would guess that what you're hearing is the audio buffer emptying. The bigger the buffer setting, the longer the sound you'll hear. Upgrading RAM won't change the length of this sound directly, but it may enable you to have a smaller buffer size, thus reducing this sound.

Anyone of a more expert nature able to confirm
What is your current audio buffer size Jimi?
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in nuendo?
I don't know... I guess what ever the factory settings are.
I've never tweaked it
 
In your sound card settings (can be accessed through control panel or viewed through the VST settings).
 
It's not just the music playing a bit after I click stop...
VST plugins like compression and reverb are lagging behind my tweaks also.
You think that all springing from the emptying of the audio buffer?
 
That's normal, or at least I've always had that.

All you reverbs will kinda release after you've hit stop, right?
 
The price of RAM now a days I would add some! Also if you upgrade to 4 gigs on a 32-bit OS your only getting 3.25 of it recognized, so ya if you do upgrade no need to go over 4 gb :guitar:
 
Steenamaroo said:
That's normal, or at least I've always had that.

All you reverbs will kinda release after you've hit stop, right?
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Well, what I'm talking about is the reaction time to a tweak. Like turning the level up on a compresser but the actual volume increase lags behind...then I turn the level down and the volume decrease lags behind. Ditto on increasing or decreasing the amount of reverb to the channel. It's spongy feeling but it's because there is a momentary lag to everything,
I was wondering if it was a lack of sufficient ram or if I just needed to delete windows 7 and put xp on there.
Hell, I ran nuendo with all these VST plugins on my laptop with windows xp and didn't even have 1 gig of ram and I never has this lag or latency or whatever it is.

I was just wondering whether it was insufficient ram or the wrong OS on the wrong computer that has the wrong processors. Abusing these problems
 
Oh, wow. No that's not normal.

Sorry. Can't really help bud. :(

Does your DAW have meters for cpu/ram/hdd usage?
If not, look it up in windows. That should tell you where you're lacking.
 
I am going to buy you a shrubbery. Not to expensive however. :D

Ironic.....

Or obvious?
 
There's a program out there called RAMDisk. Takes all the RAM that 32-bit Windows can't see as RAM and makes it look like a hard drive. I have 8G in my XP machine, and I keep my page file on the 4.5G RAMDisk.

Edit to add - I don't necessarily think this will help the OP. That sounds to me like you're running out of processor ticks somehow. Either some background program is stealing your thunder or it's just too slow. It's possible, though I wouldn't guess likely, that a faster/more memory video card could help. It's just as likely that shutting down all network devices and all anti-virus software will fix the issue. Too many variables and too little information...

But, you might as well stick all the RAM in that it will take!
 
ashcat_lt said:
There's a program out there called RAMDisk. Takes all the RAM that 32-bit Windows can't see as RAM and makes it look like a hard drive. I have 8G in my XP machine, and I keep my page file on the 4.5G RAMDisk.

Edit to add - I don't necessarily think this will help the OP. That sounds to me like you're running out of processor ticks somehow. Either some background program is stealing your thunder or it's just too slow. It's possible, though I wouldn't guess likely, that a faster/more memory video card could help. It's just as likely that shutting down all network devices and all anti-virus software will fix the issue. Too many variables and too little information...

But, you might as well stick all the RAM in that it will take!
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I'm running nothing whatsoever on it besides nuendo, wavelab, and the VST plugins. I don't even have a web browser because im not going to put it on the net
 
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