Optimize Your Windows 2000/XP PC For Audio

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Tue Feb 26, 2002 5:29 am

"Open" is not a part of the path.
If your XP is on drive C your path will be

c:Windowsinfsysoc.inf

it has got a friend: sysoc.pnf too.

mydaycomes · Post by **mydaycomes** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 4:06 am

ahh thanks I found it...I don't know what I was doing earlier...plain as day. Maybe I was in '98? Been a long week for me...

Thanks for the great tip!

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Sun Mar 17, 2002 3:23 pm

properties/advanced/performance/setting/advanced/processor scheduling/background services
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ferrybodijn · Post by **ferrybodijn** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 4:41 am

An other link I found,for tweaking Xp for DAW use:

It's at the Steinberg Nuendo site:

http://www.nuendo.com/help/help.phtml?a ... 59&hsec=04

Hope it can help some of you.

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 5:17 am

http://www.tascam.com/products/computer ... timize.pdf

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 2:51 pm

Here's a list explainging the various XP services. Some may find it useful:
http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

cannibal · Post by **cannibal** » Tue Apr 02, 2002 3:06 pm

I think it's also worth mentioning here that at least in XP you can edit the common group and computer policies to for example turn off auto insert notification, prevent windows messenger from running and a whole host of other interesting stuff...

Start/Run and type "gpedit.msc" is the easiest way to access the policies. Just be careful out there...

Best regards,
cannibal

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Tue Apr 02, 2002 8:44 pm

Biggest XP optimisation = Upgrade to 98se

Immanuel

cannibal · Post by **cannibal** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 12:19 am

Nice one

Of course it's hard to speak for others, but I am myself still using W98SE for audio just because it feels seemingly faster than XP on my low performance comp (1Ghz Athlon). Maybe a P4 would make a difference though...

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 3:12 pm

On 2002-04-02 20:44, Immanuel wrote:
Biggest XP optimisation = Upgrade to 98se

Immanuel

agre! i'm on win98 again.
i can't set latency to 3ms like in xp, but everything work. i have my giga again, no problem with cd roms and with some little distortions in sts3000 on note off what i had with xp

i can work again with no compromises with my costumers

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remixme · Post by **remixme** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 3:56 am

I would be happy using win98se.
Apart from thing, if something apart from cubase crashes ie gigasampler, the whole computer freezes and I can't save my work.

While in xp, if like the pulsar software crashes for instance, after I've got rid of the asio blowout msgs in cubase, at least I can save, then reboot and carry on happy as larry. Just my $0.02

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Sat Apr 06, 2002 4:30 am

i had freezing problem when i was useing giga and cubase together with some matrox card (forget model). with new graphic card problem's gone!

dblbass · Post by **dblbass** » Sat Apr 06, 2002 5:07 am

a couple more . .

if you use your DAW for internet surfing, this will clear out the page file on shutdown:

In regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management

Select ClearPageFileAtShutdown
Change to 1 to enable.

Reboot.

Next one is cool, but probably useful only for Ultra Geeks:

Control Panel/System/Advanced/Environment Variables/'System variables' frame/New

In Name label, type: "DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS" (with underscores but no quotes)

In Value type 1

save and out with OK, OK and OK.

Now properties for every item in device manager will have a new Details tab with lots of settings arcania. Note you can't modify here - all this stuff is really in registry or drivers or somewhere, but this creates a handy peek at a lot of system-level details which will help someone debug a system problem provided they know what they're doing

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Fri Apr 12, 2002 1:35 pm

[OT] ACPI must be EVIL! I had a problem on my little toshiba laptop, a 15 track Fruity song would not even play at max buffer size/latency. it was only on 20% CPU useage.

so i got pissed off enough to do the "standard pc" thing and press "OK" and "continue anyways" about 10000000 times after it re-found all the devices.

now it plays that song at 4098 (1/4 way up the bar) latency and even better for smaller songs.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Thu May 02, 2002 1:33 pm

A thread exist somewhere on planet Z explaining how to set higher prioroty to a process (like Pulsar or Logic) right from start, i tough it would be easier to find here :

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... &forum=3&3

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sun May 05, 2002 5:43 am

Windoze XP tends to automatically free it's RAM, which I don't like really. Could be good, but not when you've been editing your song in Cubase for about an hour, then go back to Pulsar OS for some adjustments: WinXP needs to load the whole GUI again to the memory.

Here's a snapshot of what happens in the memory. The initial drop of free RAM is right after opening of Pulsar and Cubase, the RAM freeing happens after a while when working in Cubase.

So I made an entry in the system.ini:

[386 Enh]
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

This setting will tell Windows not to use the swapfile at all until all of the RAM is used. I found only that it's for Win98, to use it's Virtual Memory like Win95 does. I haven't monitored mem usage on XP lately, but it doesn't seem to give any probs

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue May 14, 2002 10:08 pm

Another page on Win2k (and XP?) tweaks:
http://www.oakland.edu/~wdsnyder/data/w ... zation.txt

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Wed May 15, 2002 5:45 am

A useful page for german speaking users who are not so familiar with xp:

http://www.xp-heldesk.de

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 2:45 pm

don't disable terminal services in xp if you want to run sound forge 5.0f, otherwise it won't open.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Jun 25, 2002 8:16 am

Check out also the http://www.musicxp.net site,