Slipstreamed windows ISOs optimized for djing ?
Slipstreamed windows ISOs optimized for djing ? Posted on: 20.04.2013 by Dannie Dimora Hello there, i've been having problems with my laptop ever since i bought a brand new hdd and installed a fresh copy of windows 7.Waveforms are sluggish in both serato and traktor (vdj works fine tho), and traktor is MIGHTY slow. It takes about 10 seconds to get into the settings menu, let alone browsing and loading tracks. Serato also crashes when i load some of the tracks, and i have these weird cpu spikes when doing absolutely nothing. My specs are: quadcore i7 (2ndgen) @2ghz, 8gb ram @1333, WD caviar black 7200rpm 750gb, nvidia gt540m 2gb. OS: Win7 Ultimate x64 (genuine), followed every optimization guide out there. The disk is defragmented every week by a good third party defragger, i have about 180gb used on the disk, now this is only music, on the laptop i have installed just serato, traktor, vdj, chrome, itunes and the defragger. NOTHING ELSE. TL;DR So if any of you know of any slipstreamed installs of windows 7 that are specifically targeted at and optimized for music production/djing, that would be GREAT. Thank you Luka EDIT: -also, "get a mac" , yeah i would, i'm just waiting for the next-gen retinas to come out because the 15 has an overheating issue. | |
| Alphonso Deitchman 21.04.2013 | Tried disabling Hyperthreading for your CPU? |
| Brunilda Kora 21.04.2013 | Try taking out the battery. Run it with the power adaptor only. |
| Dannie Dimora 21.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by makar1
Toevening i'm gigging so i guess i'll let dpc run and then take a screenshot when it happens... |
| Alphonso Deitchman 21.04.2013 | Do you see any spikes in DPC latency when the audio stutters? |
| Dannie Dimora 21.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by makar1
When serato starts i have a 5000+us max spike, but then it goes back down to around 180us... |
| Alphonso Deitchman 21.04.2013 | What's your minimum processor % state in Power Options? Do you get any spikes in DPCLat or LatencyMon? |
| Dannie Dimora 21.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by makar1
R/W speeds are normal for a drive like this, serato search is instantaneous, too. |
| Dannie Dimora 21.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by OmniRoss
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| Rosina Steinkuehler 21.04.2013 | Run latencymon and see what is causing it to bog down. http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon |
| Trista Karle 21.04.2013 | Likely a bad driver check that also if we're in case try reseating your memory maybe you've bumped them. Likely one of thoose two yhings |
| Alphonso Deitchman 21.04.2013 | If usage never goes above 30% it's not really a spike, or a problem worth worrying about. What kind of read/write speeds do you get out of your HDD? My Traktor browsing+searching is pretty much instantaneous, and my music is all stored on a slower WD Green drive. |
| Annalisa Shogren 21.04.2013 | All drivers updated? |
| Dannie Dimora 21.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by makar1
Cpu spikes are in serato, cpu usage never goes above 25/30%. The only processes that are using the cpu are seratodj and audiodg (yes i tried the audiodg "fix", and it did nothing..), which i guess are essential to audio reproduction.. |
| Dannie Dimora 21.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by b1sh0p
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| Alphonso Deitchman 20.04.2013 | 64bit Windows, I assume you're using 64 too from the amount of RAM. Have you had a look in the Resource Manager to see what's causing the CPU spikes? |
| Dannie Dimora 20.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by makar1
are you using x32? |
| Sonja Roybal 20.04.2013 | There has to be something on your machine that's bogging it down. I'm running Traktor on an old i3/3gb/win7 laptop with no issues whatsoever. The more I read these threads, the more I believe people blame Windows for not knowing how to use a computer. |
| Alphonso Deitchman 20.04.2013 | Unless you've filled your computer with bloatware, a standard Win7 install should perform pretty well. Certain tweaks may be necessary depending on your exact hardware though. The Windows 7 machine I'm using right now works great for Traktor and I haven't optimised a thing. An SSD should help with the sluggish performance. |
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