DEMO CRASHING VERY OFTEN-Is ABLETON STABLE-INPUT APPRECIATED

Mark Lane · Post by **Mark Lane** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:32 pm

Hi,

I am trying the Ableton demo but it keeps crashing on me, it sort of just seizes up and everything goes into slow motion. Usually when I try and do a menu command like redo or undo.

I am getting a more powerful laptop soon but was wondering if my compy specs have anything to do with it, they are:

1.6ghz ATHLON
512 MEG OF RAM - 16B MG SHARED VIDEO MEMORY
DMA 40GB hard drive (not sure of speed)

The compy is pretty old, about 4 years or so.

cheers
Mark

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:55 pm

Hi,

I've always been stable with Live. But experiences differ. Don't know how much your rather old comp would influence this, though.

Regards,
Mikael

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:56 pm

are you running any freebie plug-ins?
or even cracked plug-ins?

Mark Lane · Post by **Mark Lane** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:59 pm

no cracked plug ins. just Ableton on it's own. I would go and buy the program but am scared it's unstable. Maybe my compy can't handle it as with the shared video memory I am slightly under the recommended 512mb ram.

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:21 am

i would not be surprised if your old computer was contributing to your woes.

then there's the whole bag of worms about what else is on your computer. optimizing a comp for audio work is a well-worn topic. have a search on the net, or on this forum

kineticUk · Post by **kineticUk** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:09 am

Don't bother listening to the old "Its your computer" bullshit ..
Basically get the beta and use that to evaluate Live. The pre-5.2 versions are a joke whatever system you use.

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:25 am

especially on 1.6g amd chips with whopping 512mb of ram

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:34 am

kineticUk wrote:Don't bother listening to the old "Its your computer" bullshit ..
Basically get the beta and use that to evaluate Live. The pre-5.2 versions are a joke whatever system you use.

Never have been for me...

Mark Lane · Post by **Mark Lane** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:30 pm

cheers for the input guys.

can i ask, what is the beta? and how does it differ from the demo version which i downloaded from the ableton site? thanks! also where can i get a beta to try out?

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:03 pm

5.2 was released today, so if you previously downloaded version 5.0.3, you might want to download this new version to check it out.

the beta testing is now "over"

Amaury · Post by **Amaury** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:11 pm

Mark Lane wrote:cheers for the input guys.

can i ask, what is the beta? and how does it differ from the demo version which i downloaded from the ableton site? thanks! also where can i get a beta to try out?

Hi Mark,

Longjohns is right, the beta period is over, so no need to worry about now. But yes, the beta version is for everyone to try.
So that means that there is a new demo version to download from our website: that is version 5.2.

I would say that Live 5 should run on your computer though it is not the fastest: I myself have a 5 years old PIII 1 ghz with 512 Mb and 8 Mb shared video at home, and Live 5 can run on it.

Sometimes the Preferences and/or undo system files get corrupted and deleting them can help. Try to locate those files: Preferences.cfg and Undo.cfg, and delete them. You should find them here:

C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Application Data\Ableton\Live 5\Preferences

Also, what version of Windows are you using ?

Kind regards,

Amaury

Mark Lane · Post by **Mark Lane** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:15 pm

thanks for the input. It is good to see Ableton staff are quick to respond to problems on the forum and encourages me to buy the product.

I have deleted the cfg files. I did notice that when I operated undo on occasion the program crashed (amongst other times) so maybe it was that.

I will download version 5.2. I hope this will be more stable and will provide you with input.

Thanks again.
Mark