chunkymonkey2778
hi wondering if anyone can help? i have a mate's wedding to do in 3 weeks time and im having trouble getting rid of this drop out. with dpc latency checker running as i type this my maximum spike is 11676 microseconds. if pc is left to idle it'll spike at about 1800.
the drop out in vdj appears to happen just as the fan kicks in, the sound pauses and the display stops scrolling for about a second and then carries on where it left off.
toshiba l300-243 laptop. 2.1g amd athlon x2 dual core processor, 3.0gb ram, ati radeon 3100 graphics card.
windows 7 fully updated.
numark omni control, latest driver from numark website.
vdj 6.1 pro.
always running on high performance power option when vdj used.
numark omni control and external hdd running through belkin powered hub due to only one working usb port.
things ive tried to cure include:-
complete clean reinstall of windows 7.
gamebooster.
turn off anti virus.
selecting adjust for best performance in windows power options.
defrag hdd.
microsoft hotfix for 15 second surge in latency. (made things worse).
check for latest drivers for fan, usb, processor etc etc.
how much attention should i be paying to this 15 second spike in latency? is the dpc that trustworthy and am i trying to fix something i will never cure? is it likely that this latency spike is causing the drop out?
the drop out in vdj appears to happen just as the fan kicks in, the sound pauses and the display stops scrolling for about a second and then carries on where it left off.
toshiba l300-243 laptop. 2.1g amd athlon x2 dual core processor, 3.0gb ram, ati radeon 3100 graphics card.
windows 7 fully updated.
numark omni control, latest driver from numark website.
vdj 6.1 pro.
always running on high performance power option when vdj used.
numark omni control and external hdd running through belkin powered hub due to only one working usb port.
things ive tried to cure include:-
complete clean reinstall of windows 7.
gamebooster.
turn off anti virus.
selecting adjust for best performance in windows power options.
defrag hdd.
microsoft hotfix for 15 second surge in latency. (made things worse).
check for latest drivers for fan, usb, processor etc etc.
how much attention should i be paying to this 15 second spike in latency? is the dpc that trustworthy and am i trying to fix something i will never cure? is it likely that this latency spike is causing the drop out?
geposted Mon 05 Jul 10 @ 1:48 pm
djsynystr
download RATT3 its a free microsoft debugging program. you can see what .sys process are giving you a headache. i also read somewhere a while back that toshiba laptops have an issue with other usb sound cards etc when the fan kicks on. you might be able to use speed fan to control it depending on your system setup.
geposted Tue 06 Jul 10 @ 7:09 am
chunkymonkey2778
hi thanks for your reply, when you say speed fan is that a setting i can change in windows? or a program i need to download?
geposted Wed 07 Jul 10 @ 3:00 pm
hippydog
chunkymonkey2778 wrote :
the drop out in vdj appears to happen just as the fan kicks in, the sound pauses and the display stops scrolling for about a second and then carries on where it left off.
the drop out in vdj appears to happen just as the fan kicks in, the sound pauses and the display stops scrolling for about a second and then carries on where it left off.
You need to find out what "process" is eating up the CPU cycles..
Use "task manager" to watch the processes/threads, and look for the one that "peaks" when thise happens.
geposted Wed 07 Jul 10 @ 3:35 pm
hippydog
Process Explorer v12.04
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorer.zip
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorer.zip
geposted Wed 07 Jul 10 @ 3:59 pm
chunkymonkey2778
cheers fellas, it seems the problem mightve been cured by rolling back to 6.0.8., resetting vdj to factory settings then setting up vdj how i wanted it again.
just had a 2 1/2 hour mix and it was flawless, thanks very much for all your replies though.
just had a 2 1/2 hour mix and it was flawless, thanks very much for all your replies though.
geposted Wed 07 Jul 10 @ 5:18 pm
chunkymonkey2778
problem's back. been ok for a couple of mixes and now it's the same as it was. haven't changed anything on laptop other than a few auto windows updates.
seems to be when the fan cuts in still, and sometimes when loading tracks. cpu meter never reaches top bar though.
this minimize/maximize thing, it seems to use less cpu if i have the windows toolbar at the bottom. thats mininized right, which is what it should be on?
ive tried rattv3 but im no pc techie. also in the middle of trying to make sense of process explorer.
what i dont get is vdj used to run perfectly on this machine. with windows 7. so either its a problem with my new omni control or its driver (which is a beta), or my pc got screwed when my total control and dj i/o blew? but then everything else works perfectly.
got a wedding to do in 8 days time and im spending more time trying to get everything working properly than building my set. can anyone help please?
seems to be when the fan cuts in still, and sometimes when loading tracks. cpu meter never reaches top bar though.
this minimize/maximize thing, it seems to use less cpu if i have the windows toolbar at the bottom. thats mininized right, which is what it should be on?
ive tried rattv3 but im no pc techie. also in the middle of trying to make sense of process explorer.
what i dont get is vdj used to run perfectly on this machine. with windows 7. so either its a problem with my new omni control or its driver (which is a beta), or my pc got screwed when my total control and dj i/o blew? but then everything else works perfectly.
got a wedding to do in 8 days time and im spending more time trying to get everything working properly than building my set. can anyone help please?
geposted Fri 16 Jul 10 @ 2:11 pm
chunkymonkey2778
seem to have cured sound problemds by setting performance settings to prioritise background tasks instead of programs in advanced performance settings. however it might just be me but the beat match doesnt seem as tight now. before it used to calculate bpm and be really tight with the beat match, now its sometimes 0.2 to 0.3 of a bpm out unless you hit sync a couple of times and it doesnt seem to beat lock as well. is it likely that ive set this up in some way that its gonna affect the beat lock?
geposted Mon 19 Jul 10 @ 7:33 am