Re: XP based DAW: More than one meg of memory?
- From: Laurence Payne <lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:20:50 +0000
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:05:12 -0800, spud <ohno@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ahoy, I just got another meg of memory for my desktop pc. I moved from
one meg to two based on the posited belief that winXP will take
advantage of as much memory as you can afford.
The machine behaves exactly the same. I can see absolutely no increase
in performance. Cubase has a utility to let you view your performance
while it's running and it's completely unchanged after the upgrade.
Is there some setting I'm supposed to change like the swap file size
or something in order to take advantage of the increased memory? I
tried changing to background services too but it made no difference.
Thanks as always, s.
Well, before you had enough RAM to buffer a few thousand audio tracks,
now you've enough for quite a few more (though you may
run up against other restrictions :-) It won't affect real-time
effects - that's about processing power (what would a FX do with huge
amounts of RAM? Buffer the data so as to achieve massive latency?)
You'll notice the difference if you use sample-playing softsynths -
more data can be cached in RAM so performance will be smoother.
Offline rendering may be quicker as the program can work on bigger
data chunks. But for many (most?) applications 1GB was doubtless
ample.
The Background Services priority setting (which might cause less
argument if it was more accurately called "Don't boost priority of the
foreground process") is of proven benefit in curing audio glitches.
WERE there any that needed curing?
Was/is your system working well? We may be able to help with
problem-solving. But maybe you had plenty of RAM for your needs, now
you have WAY plenty :-)
.
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