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"Open" is not a part of the path.
If your XP is on drive C your path will be it has got a friend: sysoc.pnf too.

ahh thanks I found it...I don't know what I was doing earlier...plain as day. Maybe I was in '98? Been a long week for me...

Thanks for the great tip!

properties/advanced/performance/setting/advanced/processor scheduling/background services
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An other link I found,for tweaking Xp for DAW use:

It's at the Steinberg Nuendo site:

http://www.nuendo.com/help/help.phtml?a ... 59&hsec=04

Hope it can help some of you.

Here's a list explainging the various XP services. Some may find it useful:
http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

I think it's also worth mentioning here that at least in XP you can edit the common group and computer policies to for example turn off auto insert notification, prevent windows messenger from running and a whole host of other interesting stuff...

Start/Run and type "gpedit.msc" is the easiest way to access the policies. Just be careful out there...

Best regards,
cannibal

Biggest XP optimisation = Upgrade to 98se

Immanuel

Nice one

Of course it's hard to speak for others, but I am myself still using W98SE for audio just because it feels seemingly faster than XP on my low performance comp (1Ghz Athlon). Maybe a P4 would make a difference though...

On 2002-04-02 20:44, Immanuel wrote:
Biggest XP optimisation = Upgrade to 98se

Immanuel

agre! i'm on win98 again.
i can't set latency to 3ms like in xp, but everything work. i have my giga again, no problem with cd roms and with some little distortions in sts3000 on note off what i had with xp
i can work again with no compromises with my costumers
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I would be happy using win98se.
Apart from thing, if something apart from cubase crashes ie gigasampler, the whole computer freezes and I can't save my work.

While in xp, if like the pulsar software crashes for instance, after I've got rid of the asio blowout msgs in cubase, at least I can save, then reboot and carry on happy as larry. Just my $0.02

i had freezing problem when i was useing giga and cubase together with some matrox card (forget model). with new graphic card problem's gone!

a couple more . .

if you use your DAW for internet surfing, this will clear out the page file on shutdown:

In regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management

Select ClearPageFileAtShutdown
Change to 1 to enable.

Reboot.

Next one is cool, but probably useful only for Ultra Geeks:

Control Panel/System/Advanced/Environment Variables/'System variables' frame/New

In Name label, type: "DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS" (with underscores but no quotes)

In Value type 1

save and out with OK, OK and OK.

Now properties for every item in device manager will have a new Details tab with lots of settings arcania. Note you can't modify here - all this stuff is really in registry or drivers or somewhere, but this creates a handy peek at a lot of system-level details which will help someone debug a system problem provided they know what they're doing

[OT] ACPI must be EVIL! I had a problem on my little toshiba laptop, a 15 track Fruity song would not even play at max buffer size/latency. it was only on 20% CPU useage.

so i got pissed off enough to do the "standard pc" thing and press "OK" and "continue anyways" about 10000000 times after it re-found all the devices.

now it plays that song at 4098 (1/4 way up the bar) latency and even better for smaller songs.

A thread exist somewhere on planet Z explaining how to set higher prioroty to a process (like Pulsar or Logic) right from start, i tough it would be easier to find here :

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... &forum=3&3

Windoze XP tends to automatically free it's RAM, which I don't like really. Could be good, but not when you've been editing your song in Cubase for about an hour, then go back to Pulsar OS for some adjustments: WinXP needs to load the whole GUI again to the memory.

Here's a snapshot of what happens in the memory. The initial drop of free RAM is right after opening of Pulsar and Cubase, the RAM freeing happens after a while when working in Cubase.



So I made an entry in the system.ini:

[386 Enh]
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

This setting will tell Windows not to use the swapfile at all until all of the RAM is used. I found only that it's for Win98, to use it's Virtual Memory like Win95 does. I haven't monitored mem usage on XP lately, but it doesn't seem to give any probs

Another page on Win2k (and XP?) tweaks:
http://www.oakland.edu/~wdsnyder/data/w ... zation.txt

A useful page for german speaking users who are not so familiar with xp:

http://www.xp-heldesk.de

don't disable terminal services in xp if you want to run sound forge 5.0f, otherwise it won't open.

Check out also the http://www.musicxp.net site,