[PD] audio I/O stuck immediately after running .37t6 in WinXP
David NG McCallum
d at mentalfloss.ca
Tue Jan 27 16:53:07 CET 2004
Enrike,
I've had this problem off and on before. The difference this time is
that it happens *all* the time when I run Pd, not just occasionally.
I am currently trying to migrate my setup to Linux, but it's taking
quite a while to get everything working properly.
David
.
. David McCallum
. Music wants to be free
. http://sintheta.org
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enrike wrote:
> bad luck. As far as I understand this problem its caused by your
> soundcard and there is no way to get rid of it totally. Its the same in
> my laptop (a Compaq Presario 920 EA) and i have never managed to solve
> it. However there are some things that should help a bit like:
> format your HD as Fat32
> Increase the -audiobuffer that PD uses
> Defragment your HD
>
> I noticed better performance after doing all this in my machine but I am
> not sure why i just tested few things.
> Also I have the feeling that doing a custom installation of windows
> would be better than installing the Windows provided with the laptop. I
> mean that for example my laptop came with a copy of windows and also
> with an OS restore disk that contains a copy of windows + all the
> customizations by the seller. My experience is that the machine will
> works better if you install yourself windows. The first time I
> reinstalled windows (and formated the HD to fat32) the machine worked
> better than the first day when i bought it.
>
> Another solution is to install linux and use PD under linux, this is the
> best solution. Latency is much lower and it performs better.
>
> best
>
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