I have been having an array of issues and I would like to determine the cause without having to spend money (if I can)
Here is what is happening...
In any project of reaper, after an extended period of time (roughly 1-2 hours) my entire computer will freeze. I have found no specific plug-in that causes this, I have removed all plug-ins and still the error persists. The mouse won't move, the screen locks up and nothing happens. I have to reboot my computer to be able to do anything.
Before the upgrade, my computer had a huge delay in response. I would press play/stop and it wouldn't respond for a good 13 seconds. Assuming this was a capacity error, I upgraded. Ever since the upgrade (6 months ago) it freezes instead.
I have heard several possible fixes. Overheating (so I bought better fans/cooling units), bad sector of RAM (so I upgraded RAM), bad motherboard (so I exchanged the motherboard).
Please, assist. I do not have a Error Log to post right now, but the issue doesn't single out Reaper as the culprit or my OS. The whole computer locks up, however, it only happens in reaper. I am tempted to make the switch back to Intel, but I am begging the help of the internet before I spend over $1,000 in new parts to fix the issue.
Just to clear up the fog in my mind: You did start from a clean installed Windows and didn't copy over any config from the old system?
My first guess would be a hardware problem too, but since you completely exchanged all hardware (except GPU, PSU...?), we can rule that out, it seems.
A 13 second delay isn't normal, even on a very low end system.
Hey Cyrano,
Yes when I migrated to a new Mobo and all, I installed Win 7 Ultimate in fresh. I did not swap out my PSU or GPU either. If at all possible, I'd like to resort to those last if I can avoid spending any more money on this.
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Back to basics: What does resplendence`s latency monitor say about your computer`s ability to do real time multitrack audio?
And of course you have checked that you are running the latest drivers for your interface from Focusrite.
I had a quick look round the various music forums and it does seem that historically there have been issues with the USB drivers, acknowledged by focusrite themselves.
Might be worth shooting their support folks an email or opening a ticket on the support site to see what they say.
FWIW I also had issues with several of the smaller ff USB interfaces a while back but thought they had sorted out their driver issues since then.
Back to basics: What does resplendence`s latency monitor say about your computer`s ability to do real time multitrack audio?
And of course you have checked that you are running the latest drivers for your interface from Focusrite.
I had a quick look round the various music forums and it does seem that historically there have been issues with the USB drivers, acknowledged by focusrite themselves.
Might be worth shooting their support folks an email or opening a ticket on the support site to see what they say.
FWIW I also had issues with several of the smaller ff USB interfaces a while back but thought they had sorted out their driver issues since then.
I just emailed their support line, but yes, I was using the most recent version.
What is resplendence and where can I download it to test?
I updated all of my drivers, made sure the motherboard and BIOS drivers were up-to-date and even went through steps found on Focusrite's help center to optimize my computer.
I opened a 48 track file and it froze my computer within 15 minutes.
Sometime ago,I had a similar problem. SLow response, random freezes. I thought a virus or similar. I could find nothing.
I went over to a spare machine and used that.
The problem machine I left for a while. I then took stuff out of it that I thought I would salvage: graphics card, firewire card, and maybe something else. I can't remember.
Later I discovered I wanted to get a file of it, so I plugged a monitor into its on-board VGA slot and started it up, hoping it would go long enough for me to get some stuff off it.
It ran just fine. I put all the stuff I had taken out and put it back in, except for the graphics card. And it still worked fine.
Long story short . . . it was the graphics card causing the freezes and other problems. When I got a new one, it ran smooth as silk. That may be worth a try.
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...especially if it happens to be an Nvidia card. I have been back and forth with them. My current Geforce passive 610 is great, but previously I had almost given up on Nvidia, in spite of their fanless cards offering excellent bang for the buck.
Worth trying it on the mobo gfx chips....
Sometime ago,I had a similar problem. SLow response, random freezes. I thought a virus or similar. I could find nothing.
I went over to a spare machine and used that.
The problem machine I left for a while. I then took stuff out of it that I thought I would salvage: graphics card, firewire card, and maybe something else. I can't remember.
Later I discovered I wanted to get a file of it, so I plugged a monitor into its on-board VGA slot and started it up, hoping it would go long enough for me to get some stuff off it.
It ran just fine. I put all the stuff I had taken out and put it back in, except for the graphics card. And it still worked fine.
Long story short . . . it was the graphics card causing the freezes and other problems. When I got a new one, it ran smooth as silk. That may be worth a try.
I have had some suspicions about it being my video card and it is one of the only things I have left to swap out. Since I can get one for a decent price, I may have to try that.
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Originally Posted by ivansc
...especially if it happens to be an Nvidia card. I have been back and forth with them. My current Geforce passive 610 is great, but previously I had almost given up on Nvidia, in spite of their fanless cards offering excellent bang for the buck.
Worth trying it on the mobo gfx chips....
Yes I currently have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or something along those lines. Since I am using an AMD board now, maybe I need to switch to an ATI Radeon graphics card.
So, I replaced my NVIDIA GTX 670 video card with a MSI Radeon R9 380 and so far have not had any problems.
My internal set up is as follows right now:
ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z motherboard
AMD 9590 FX Black 4.7 GHZ 8-core Processor
1TB 7200 RPM hard drive
1TB 7200 RPM hard drive
256GB Solid State Drive
16GB 1866MHz RAM
MSI Radeon R9 380 video card
750 Watt Power supply
I don't want to jinx it, but so far it is running like a champ. I will do a more detailed and painful test this weekend during vocal recording.
Alright, so in talking with the Focusrite Support team, I discovered that when playing audio back through reaper, this is what my LatencyMon image looks like (see attached)
It appears that NDIS is the biggest hog as well as having issues in these fields (according to LatencyMon).
"Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. Also one or more ISR routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. At least one detected problem appears to be network related. In case you are using a WLAN adapter, try disabling it to get better results. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates."