Ableton Forum

i'm having untold grief with my laptop at the moment and in trying to fix it i've formatted my hard drive several times and re-installed windows.

problem is i need to keep getting a new unlock key because the challenge code keeps changing.

am i ok to keep doing this?

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % about 60% 2) Laptop/Desktop? SONY pcg-k315s 3) Operating System xp pro sp 1 4) CPU Make Model and Speed intel 3,06 ghz 5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram 1024/2700 kingston 6) Soundcard built in with asio 4 all 7) Hard Disk Drive Speed hitachi 60 gb 7200 rpm(not original) i...

1) 80% !!!!! 2) laptop packard bell H5 315 3) XPproSP2 4) P4 3.2Ghz 533Mhz 5) 512mb / PC2700 6) Edirol PCR-1 usb interface 7) 7200rpm somethings wrong, thats for sure............ i see other laptops with much less specs blowing this away. this is a dedicated DAW and its had every tweak in the book ...

are you sure you set the power management to "always on"?[/quote]

yep' always on is set. i have no problems with any other software. a 'big' track in reason only uses up about 15%cpu.

1) 80% !!!!! 2) laptop packard bell H5 315 3) XPproSP2 4) P4 3.2Ghz 533Mhz 5) 512mb / PC2700 6) Edirol PCR-1 usb interface 7) 7200rpm somethings wrong, thats for sure............ i see other laptops with much less specs blowing this away. this is a dedicated DAW and its had every tweak in the book d...

my live4 box arrived today. upgrade to v5 couldn't have been any easier. happy days!

thanks. roll on tommorow.

hi, i just ordered live4 from a shop because i thought i'd get the free upgrade to v5. it will be delivered tommorow. will i still be eligible for the free upgrade?