Yes it says Texas instruments in Control Panel. I tried turning off all services (except the system ones), and it didn't help much. I tried the 32 MB cache drive and it certainly did help, I can now play 54 tracks at 19 MB/s and CPU at 42% (with that sort of cpu usage by the tracks, I don't think I can do much with effects...), for more than a minute, and then it stops again.
RE: Reaper cant take 40 tracks of playback ... Help!
sarmadg did you say now you get 54 traks , but the song doesnt play all the way thru ?? did i read you correctly ?? if the song stops at a certain point...try and monitor processor useage in win just before the stop point. useing win task mgr . at the stop point do you see a cpu spike ?? if you get a stop point , does the song stop at the same point each time ?? i would also like you to run this test. at the stop point. (NOT A PERMANENT DELETE THO). silence by cuttijng audio on many traks just before and just after the stop point. does the song now play thru fine ?? so its not a permanent delete just undo the deletes of the audio trak cuts around the stop point. or just exit without saveing. (DO A BACK UP COPY OF THE SONG FOLDER PRIOR TO RUNNING THE TEST.)
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RE: Reaper cant take 40 tracks of playback ... Help!
The window's defragger can actually fragment hard drives.This was a legacy form of defragmentation brought in in win98 to allegedly improve program loading speeds.With the improvement of hardware this is not really needed and in the case of Sound recording and the manipulation of large files can be counter productive. The Auslogics defragger uses a more intelligent form and if used on a regular basis is much faster.Try both and see which you like.As stated I've been using it for years and it may be a contributory factor why I seem to have so few if any problems with Reaper even on my now ageing system. YMMV :)