That system is on the bottom end of what I would go with, especially with integrated video and 1GB of memory. The video is stealing system memory so I bet you have some memory swapping going on (which would also be shown as you got improvements by giving priority to the background functions).
If you are locked on the x2 3800, go buy a video card asap. While there, buy another gig of memory. I am not sure if a separate firewire card would help but they are dirt cheap so it cannot hurt! Sorry to give you this advice but thats what I would advise. Neal On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Brian Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Neal Campbell wrote: > >> Hi guys! >> >> Brian, what model of Athlon X2 are you using? How much memory and what >> video card (sri if I missed this in a prior note)!. > > AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+, 2.01GHz, 1GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce 6150 on > the MB. > >> The very first thing to do is go to >> http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks2.htm and follow his >> XP tweaking advice. When it gets to the part about turning off Windows >> services, I would turn off the services listed in "Level 2" and if you >> run into problems, make the services settings look like Level 1. > > OK, did that. Set up for level-3. Pretty agressive. No change (as I have > mentioned). > >> Anything that requires you open Regedit, ignore. > > Sensible. > >> Second thing is to make sure your 1394a adapter isn't sharing an IRQ >> (interrupt) with any other bandwidth hogs like the USB controllers, >> the lan controllers or the video adapater. To do this go to the System >> control panel, select hardware manager and once its open, go to the >> view menu item and click on "by connection". This will sort the list >> of devices by interrupt. Find your video card and see what else is >> sharing it. If one of the bandwidth hogs I mentioned are sharing with >> it, try moving it (or some of the other devices) to different slots. >> On my machine, it wants to share the IRQ with the Ultra Audio Adapter >> so I just disabled it in the device manager. > > Well, that will be tough because I am only using the devices on the MB > itself. There are no boards plugged into any of the PCI slots. > >> One other thing (while you have the device manager open), make sure >> that the machine isn't trying to run TCP over the firewire port (its >> default for some reason). Disable the 1394 Network Connection (don't >> worry, it doesn't disable your firewire controller). > > Already done. I always disable that right off the bat on any system I am > running. > >> I have a computer with a X2-4800 and 2GB of memory and have run mixw >> with the Flex-recommended values in VAC, at 96 Khz/1024 defined in the >> driver spec and 2048 in the DSP buffer size. I would start at that and >> if you see gaps in the waterfall (after doing the optimizations in >> tweakhound) try 4096 in the DSP buffer. > > Already up to 2048 in the Flex-5000 control panel. DSP buffer size was > already 4096. > >> The reason this can't be a "recipe" for everyone is that everyone's >> set their operating system differently, has their 1394a card sharing >> its IRQ with different devices, etc. Windows machines are "the wild >> west" when it comes to performance tuning (not even sure its an art). >> >> >> Let me know how this goes! > > It didn't, at least not for MixW. Now it is time to try other programs to > see if that has any effect. > > > -- > > 73 de Brian, WB6RQN > Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com > > > > -- Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux (540) 242 0911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Try Spot for OS X, the intelligent DXCluster Client at www.abrohamnealsoftware.com - introduction priced at $10.99 ------------------------------------------------- For a great dog book, visit www.abrohamneal.com ------------------------------------------------- See the FlexRadio Systems Flex-5000a in action at www.flex-videos.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
