Ableton Forum

I just got a new MacBook for my birthday. 2Ghz processor, 512 MB RAM. I installed Live 5.0, and when i ran the demo songs, CPU load would run as high as 190%. Sound was clicking and ULTRA SLOW, one could not tell it was music. It was just noise. Please help! Are there settings I need to change? My dad has a G4 with poorer performance qualities than my MacBook, yet Live 5 works without a flaw!

i reckon you're trying to run the power pc version on the intel machine....

am wrote:i reckon you're trying to run the power pc version on the intel machine....

I am not sure. Is there a way i can check? I just got this MacBook. If I am, how do i fix the problem?

have you bought the intel 5.2 upgrade? that's how you'll know...

am wrote:have you bought the intel 5.2 upgrade? that's how you'll know...

Yes i just downloaded the 5.2 upgrade. I have not purchased it yet, but it works fine in Demo Mode. So from this I opine that I will never be able to get live 5.0 to work properly on my MacBook. Is this correct?

That's correct - 5.2 was the first version of Live to run natively on Intel.

ps you might want to look at upping your ram sometime soon. 512Mb was the bare minimum for audio 4+ years ago. That is one area you will really be able to improve the functionality of Live on your machine - track count/overall "speed" of the app etc.

seems like we got the same problem.


have you compared the 5.0 demo song with the 5.2 demo song??

My macbook runs like shit on the 5.2 universal binary to,

Yes I have tried both demo songs. Vitamins by Jethro runs my CPU at like 180% on 5.0. Fortunately it is only 17% on 5.2, so I guess the update is better suited for MacBook.