Live 5.2.1 freezes - Dell Inspiron 8200 1,8GHz 750MB - Why?

jehoho · Post by **jehoho** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:30 am

Hello.

I use Live 5.2.1 to record sessions with a friend.
Live records his incoming stereo track and I accompany using one Operator and 3-4 audio tracks with sample loops and some effects - not such a huge set I think.

The Problem: Often the screen freezes!
Music playing continues, MIDI input works - but I have to wait 2-3 minutes (or more) until Live allows me to edit on the screen again.

Why?

Is my Dell Inspiron 8200 1,8GHz 750MB to old / to weak for Live 5?
System: Windows XP SP2 Pro
Audio: Firewire 410

Live tells me about 30-50% cpu load.
The Windows Task manager often shows more than 50%.

Could it help to enlarge memory from 750MB to 1GB?
Could it help to use an external Harddisk connected via USB?

Thanks
DJHO

mu0p · Post by **mu0p** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:13 am

Hmmm, shouldnt be causing you problems with that set up. Its a fair setup, and shouldnt call for a freeze, maybe some high cpu usage, but your memory is fine.. i did a little searching and came up with this... might want to look into it

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-4744.html

jehoho · Post by **jehoho** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:10 pm

Thanks for that link.

SLOW DISK!

That´s what I assumed, too.

I will try to use an external disk via USB or Firewire for recording and post the results here...

mu0p · Post by **mu0p** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 6:00 pm

yea, make sure you got all the temp files moved to the new hard disk to
because when recording in live, it puts all the temp files in the defualt drive in which you installed the program. and try to keep everything on the external rather then then one thats causing problems. tell us how it goes