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I am doing a lot of tweaking of my system because I am getting a lot of glitches. I find the system gets a bit 'iffy' when I hit 'record', in particular - the meters freeze in Scope until recording stops, things like MIDI get especially sluggish. I also suspect (constantly used) Sonic Timeworks' plugins are causing a drain, I have the idea they are hard on PCI bandwidth? I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my system, I'm not interested in that last 5% of performance, I'm wondering why I have a hard time using 20 tracks of 24-bit ASIO. I'm considering installing windows XP on the same system - would I get better performance than Win2K?

- Cubase 2.2
- Windows 2000
- Asus P4T-E (Intel I850 chipset) - I've been told to adjust the PCI latency timer, I find it works best at 64.
- Western Digital WD1200JB Caviar
- 768M RAM - DDR RAM is so expensive, but I'm thinking this might be optimization number one, really
-1.60GHz
-NVIDIA GeForce FX5200
-Universal Audio card in one slot

I left the network card in the machine. I find it a real PITA to work without a network card (though nowadays with USB hard drives, it might be different), I usually have the network card driver disabled but will the fact that there's another card in the slots steal PCI resources? I'm talking about a 20% loss, not a 3% loss. Will I really get a NOTICEABLE difference between disabling USB and not, or removing that network card physically?

I think windows xp professional is better than win2k ,the XP core kernel and ACPI system I think is more stable than win 2k

Have to agree - WinXP is a much better OS at this point. If you're concerned about graphical excess - you can turn off the ugly 'shiny' theme and make it look exactly like Win2K. Virtually any driver that works in 2K should also work in XP.

XP has been good to me for a long time now