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Hi,

I would like to know if installing a game application will affect DAW performance.

I have P4 3GHz/3GB RAM and have been optimized for DAW and I am thinking to install a game (like Call of Duty) to it.

hc.

I'm running multiple games on my DAW, can't say I've had any problems that could be tracked to the installed games.

Giga Studio 3 on the other hand seems to be my only real source of truoble.... Go figure...

There's no reason why installed games would have any effect on DAW performance whatsoever.
As long as you're not actually running them while making music of course

he's perhaps asking because there was a time on Win98/ME when different directx versions actually affected audio applications that relied on portions of the directsound stack for audio processing and their mixing engines. Conflicts could arise...it's been years since that was a problem though.

UAD, for one, advise against playing games.

"Computer games are particularly troublesome because they cause video cards to run at high temperatures and generate an unusual amount of radio-frequency interference (RFI) inside the computer case. Excessive RFI can cause a warping of the plate within the UA micro-tubes. Universal Audio does not recommend playing computer games on UAD-1 equipped systems, especially first-person shooters."

http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2006/apri ... tent5.html

However, as I am in the midst of the quest for TOTAL intergalactic domination at present, the UA tubes can fry with the rest of 'em.

ns

nightscope wrote:UAD, for one, advise against playing games.

"Computer games are particularly troublesome because they cause video cards to run at high temperatures and generate an unusual amount of radio-frequency interference (RFI) inside the computer case. Excessive RFI can cause a warping of the plate within the UA micro-tubes. Universal Audio does not recommend playing computer games on UAD-1 equipped systems, especially first-person shooters."

http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2006/apri ... tent5.html

However, as I am in the midst of the quest for TOTAL intergalactic domination at present, the UA tubes can fry with the rest of 'em.

ns

There's no problem with the UAD cards, though, because you can always replace the micro-tubes: "They are extremely easy to replace: all you will need is a pair of ESD safe tweezers, an ESD safe soldering iron, an ESD safe solder suction device, and an electron microscope."

I wonder if this article was posted on the 1st April?
B

Ben Walker wrote:all you will need is a pair of ESD safe tweezers, an ESD safe soldering iron, an ESD safe solder suction device, and an electron microscope."

Great. I got some tweezers.

ns

after deinstalling a game u should check the registry with regedit ..
some games did not clean up alle entries
=> after installing/deinstalling to many gams / application windows perfomrance will slow down

lg widy

"alle entries"

Ben Walker wrote: I wonder if this article was posted on the 1st April?
B

Of course, the micro-tubes is a reference to the old vacum-tubes used in the past.

widy wrote:after deinstalling a game u should check the registry with regedit ..
some games did not clean up alle entries
=> after installing/deinstalling to many gams / application windows perfomrance will slow down

lg widy

any evidence to back this up? cause I remember reading on Microsofts own tech help site that even a very "bloated" registry would not slow the system down any noticeable amount and the use of registry cleaners is discouraged.
I did use registry cleaners before though but never really noticed any significant change in system performance. The risk of messing up valid registry entries is probably greater than the performance gained from cleaning up a couple of stray entries.
Of course you should in any case try and keep your system clean and organised, even if only to be able to find stuff you need as efficiently as possible.

old entries can make trouble in my experience.
to really remove that stuff, it must be done manually and with great care..