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Old 04-14-2009, 08:24 AM   #1
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Default Graphics performance much better in v3,- even in windows!

So i put the beta on the studio computer today as I figure it's not going to do anything too mad from now on and it was a nice surprise to discover I can have "show window contents whilst dragging" enabled now and not get crackling when moving windows around!

wooohooo!

it's much prettier and I dunno whether this was sorted ages ago 'cos like I say it's only just been put on the studio computer.

Nice

before I had to run with basic Xp look (win2k theme) and with none of the effect enabled to not get crackling when working.

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Old 04-14-2009, 09:05 AM   #2
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hmmpf ignore me....

crackles are back

nevermind.

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Old 04-17-2009, 12:38 AM   #3
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Forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but have you tried moving your soundcard to a different slot (if it's PCI), or lowering graphics acceleration? It sounds very much like a shared IRQ issue...you could also possibly solve the problem by just changing to a new video card - a DAW wouldn't need any better than a $30 ATI from New Egg...
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Old 04-17-2009, 02:26 AM   #4
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Sounds like some kind of Latency problem, Ed
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Forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but have you tried moving your soundcard to a different slot (if it's PCI), or lowering graphics acceleration? It sounds very much like a shared IRQ issue...you could also possibly solve the problem by just changing to a new video card - a DAW wouldn't need any better than a $30 ATI from New Egg...
There's no irq sharing at all.

The soundcard is a firewire device off a pci firewire card,- with texas instruments chipset.

See my other thread

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Old 04-17-2009, 08:19 AM   #6
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FWIW....
I think that the graphics rendering (or whatever it is actually called) is a bit "tighter" in V3 betas... I like that alot.
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Old 04-17-2009, 09:49 AM   #7
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I think that the graphics rendering (or whatever it is actually called) is a bit "tighter" in V3 betas... I like that alot.
If I recall correctly, at some point those optimizations got even into the 2.5x. That's one of those things that the Cockos ironed out working on v3 alphas and kindly transferred to v2 stable releases.
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Old 04-17-2009, 10:18 AM   #8
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Some parts look smooth in v3 and that is enjoyable. Other parts lag a lot. For example, a busy mixer with 10s of tracks, doesn't even get the chance to redraw when I scroll (the mixer) left+right. Also, and this is me being spoiled even more, I'd love to see 100% smooth scroll/screen update in the arrangement view. It updates in steps instead of a fluid realtime motion.

Then again, I used to make music on tiny LCD screens and didn't complain. But we go with the times I guess.
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Old 04-17-2009, 03:48 PM   #9
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.... Also, and this is me being spoiled even more, I'd love to see 100% smooth scroll/screen update in the arrangement view. It updates in steps instead of a fluid realtime motion...
Me too (that would rock and make sense).
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Old 04-17-2009, 04:37 PM   #10
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I'd love to see 100% smooth scroll/screen update in the arrangement view. It updates in steps instead of a fluid realtime motion.
Me too and I'd add smoother zoom in/out, right now at some point reaper seems to have a hard time when zooming in.
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Old 04-18-2009, 07:36 AM   #11
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ok found the source of the crackles.

if i disabled anticipative and synchronous multiprocessing the crackles disappear!



sorted

not sure what performance hit that has, but i'd rather live without the crackles.

EDIT-

discovered my processor scheduling was set to normal, and not highest which is recommended.

I've sorted that and so far it seems to be ok!


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