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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 11:44 am
by otter
when i open the SX mixer , there´s the typical crackling sound. when i move the mixer out of the visible screen, crackles stop. it seems that the graphics card is taking away performance for drwing the mixer.am i right?
any ideas to fix it?
-latest drivers installed, pci latency checked and so on..
using SX and sfp 3.1a on win xp pro
system: CUSL2C/PIII 1000/512mb cl 2 RAM/2x vga on leadtek winfast pro dh/ibm ide drives/midex 8
1x luna and 1x pulsar II (9dsp)
ulli is set to 4ms/44.1kHz
THX
otter
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 11:46 am
by otter
one more thing:of course i could raise ulli latency, but i think the syste, should run on 4ms, as i read from other posts.
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:06 pm
by subhuman
Raise your ULLI, use one screen, or use a Matrox G450/550 for dual monitors.
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 1:20 pm
by sandrob
my computer/properties/advanced/performance/advanced/processor sheduling/
adjust for best performance of: background services
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 6:30 pm
by Neutron
I think the real reason that matrox cards are preferred by many DAW users is because it is easy to turn off bus mastering. i am not quite clear why AGP bus mastering affects the PCI bus, but it does. I am pretty sure there is a way to turn it off for Nvidia cards, but i just do not know what it is
There are video card "overclocking" programs for nvidia cards, i used to use one for a while, there were lots of options in there besides just overclocking. sorry i can not recall if bus mastering (pci bus retries) was in there.
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 1:49 am
by otter
thank you all!
"background services" fixed it.
otter
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 4:00 am
by krizrox
Aww man.
You guys found a cure for this problem and it involves Win XP? Great. Too bad I can't run 3DAT under Win XP. That's it, I gotta get me some new recording software.
One thing that puzzles me though: I had the same problem with WinME using the analog output from Pulsar (I assume that is where you are hearing this problem right?). My problem went away when I stopped using the analog output and used toslink to A16 instead. I was so sure this was some type of grounding problem. If it was a config issue, wouldn't you think the problem would exist in the ADAT outputs as well? Or am I misunderstanding?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2002 4:18 pm
by otter
i assume that your case is totally different; that´s why my solutuion is different.I was trying to find out the limits in my system by reducing ULLI step by step. the "background services" setting is a tuning tip given in many threads. it might give your system a little extra perfomance, too ( unless already set) . btw sometimes i still have to switch to 7 ms for security,but it´s much better now.