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Hey whats up i have a question thats driving me nuts.
Ok well I just bought a toshiba satellite notebook t2300 chipset with 1GB of ram. (It's the dual processor). Running windows Media Center = I know it sucks but i didn't reformat it in the beggining ...whatever LOL. Anyway i'm trying to run Ableton 5, but to my surprise it's glitching out. I start to play a clip from my set and stutter starts etc, may play fine for 2 minutes or so then i fire more clips same issue. Shows like 5 to 6 percent cpu usage on the top bar. I also went ahead and set to play all clips from ram instead of trying to access it from the hard drive in real time...no dice. My pentium 4, 2.0 never had these glitchy issue's. Am i fucked becuase it doesn't have dual processor support?! Thats kinda killing me for my upcoming shows! I mean on paper I should be smoking in Ableton right now. I'm also running a M-Audio firewire audiophile. I turned the buffer all the way up also. Just driving me fucking crazy I need to find a solution!
Thanks In advance,
Mike

I have the chip right above yours and the same amount of memory and have had zero problems. The fact that Live 5 doesn't have dual core support yet shouldn't be an issue.

When I got my new machine I was having the same issue as you. Turned out that it was the hard drive protection system the machine had. If I bumped the machine the sound would stop streaming from the HD. Doesn't sound like this is your issue since you are getting the same issue with the clips loaded into RAM.

Only thing I could say is see if you have the issue with you wireless internet turned off, and if that doesn't help maybe Windows media center is the issue?

I haven't turned off my wireless internet maybe that it but i'm streamed it down everyway possible. I was thinking maybe it's version 5 i'm gonna try and re-install version 4 see if it makes a difference

media c. tis not good.
install xp. perhaps.

goodluck/