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I finally got my XP set up working with my Pulsar Version 3 and Cubase 5.0r6, but now I have another bit of a problem. On its own, Pulsar 3 seems to be ok on the CPU, but once I open Cubase and play a project (all instruments in Pulsar and ONLY sequences in Cubase), the two apps devour my CPU like a snack. Cubase falls of time and module movements in Pulsar take years! When looking in the Windows task manager, the CPU is working at almost 100 percent!! I never had this problem when running ME. I even have a Scope SRB in the mix as well!
Is this just something I have to live with or can I tweak some settings in either of the programs to help out with this. I disabled audio in Cubase and that helped its performance a bit, but the Pulsar graphics are soo slow its almost unbearable.
I'm running a Asus CUSL2 Motherboard with a P3 866 and 512 RAM. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Merlyn

Have a look at 5.0r7 Public Beta. They did some optimizing for the memory. Could be helpful. And always have a look for a new driver/bios of your graphics accelerator. Most of these drivers for XP are not too well optimized yet. (One reason for me to have Audio with 98SE). What we need is a WinAudio! (Maybe we get it via Mac OS X? and then Linux????;)
Happy pulsaring
Micha

Thanks for the tips. I'll check them out, but where did you see a 5.0r7 beta? I looked on the Steinberg site and didn't see it.

Take a look around the forum and you should find some tweaks for optimising XP. The main one is setting processor priority from program to background tasks under
control panel>system>advanced>performance
If you don't have oem drivers for your graphics card, then disabling all the fancy gui helps, this can also be found in the above location, and change the display to medium 16bit.

Thanks for the tips,i'll try them out and get back to you