that would be good to have built-in, like it is in Mac OS X, with the audio output started with a higher priority. Any Windows people want to comment on that?
.hc On Dec 7, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > hi all > > every now and then i hear people complaining here in the list or on > #dataflow in irc, that audio is affected (drop outs), when doing some > gui stuff in pd on windows. i don't know about osx, but on linux, i > never experienced, that the gui was the cause for drop-outs, even > if it > consumes a lot of cpu power. i assume, this is because the gui-process > and the dsp engine are started with different priorities on linux. > today i wanted to test one of my patches on windows. it is part of the > patch, that a visible array is updated every 100ms. indeed, i got a > drop-out on every update, so that my patch sounded like an uzi. > turning > the array update off removed also the drop-outs. i found out, that > 'pd.com' and 'wish84.exe' were running with the same priority, so i > set > 'pd.com' in the windows task manager to 'realtime priority'. as usual, > windows pops-up a message saying that this is dangerous and might harm > the system. however, after that i could turn on the array update > without > getting drop-outs anymore. > > i just wanted all the windows user to let know, that there _is_ a > way to > optimize your pd. probably someone with a deeper knowledge about > windows > than me knows a way, how to set priorities permanently, so that it > doesn't need to be changed in taskmanager after each launch of pd (?). > > i tested with: > windows xp home > pd vanilla 0.40.2 > > roman > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! > Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. - General Smedley Butler _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
