let's discus GUI lag in Live

mr.ergonomics · Post by **mr.ergonomics** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:41 pm

hi, I really want to know how you feel about it. For me it's ok, but it's not "that nice" that the GUI feels really sluggish sometimes.. like when you have a low frame refresh rate.

I have a dualcore 3800+, 2 gb ram, nvidia gt6800 (256 mb ram) and thwo screens (24" for live and 17" for plugin windows) in dual monitoring mode.

Things I've noticed:

* the bigger your ableton live window is (800x600 vs 1920x1200) the more sluggish it feels.

* disable dual monitoring helps a bit.

* changing the desktop to 16 bit improves the responsiveness a lot!

* happens even with low cpu load

someone noticed this too?

abort · Post by **abort** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:04 pm

nvidia gt6800 (256 mb ram) You should probably think about getting a better graphics card! If your still running on AGP I think you can get a better one online ...don't get any ati cards or maybe I had some bad luck with one earlier this year.

best regards,
///P\\\

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:30 pm

256Mb video RAM is low.

once Ableton fixes ALL the AUDIO bugs then I'd be interested in video lag. Live puts video as a low priority, as it should.

mr.ergonomics · Post by **mr.ergonomics** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:00 am

it's low video ram compared to up tp date video cards, but ableton is 2d not 3d. I don't think this can be an issue. a uncompressed picture with 1920x1200x32 bit is only about ~9,2 mb big.

I'm more interested if more people have a sluggish GUI (with high resolution screens), I just want to know if this is an ableton issue or an issue from my system.

mr.ergonomics · Post by **mr.ergonomics** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:24 pm

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=99502

interesting, maybe related to this...

mr.ergonomics · Post by **mr.ergonomics** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:00 pm

ok I have something new. I think it has something to do with nvidias dual-view. when I make a big desktop (dualview has two independent screens - a "big desktop" handles both monitors as one big screen) there is no or much much less lag. I will research further ...