GStudio brings PC to a crawl !

[Jo-Seth]

Hello All

I have a Cel 300a@450 PC, 128mg RAM, 98lite configured to rum audio apps. Gigasampler runs no problem at all. With Gigastudio, when I open the program the System resources tab reads only 66% left !! Is this right ? Running Gigasampler there is still 91% left. When I then load a big Giga file like the Bosendorfer into Gigastudio, the whole PC pretty much comes to a complete standstill. Anybody got any clues ?

[Simon Ravn]

Try looking at your system.ini file in Windows, look under [VCACHE] - the Minfilesize and Maxfilesize are probably set too high for a low-memory system (sorry, but 128mb is not much for Giga). Try setting them to 0 or 4096.

[Jo-Seth]

Hi Simon

Will doing this adversely affect Cubase\'s audio efficiency ? Also why would the vcache setting make the program alone take up so much resources? (32% of 128 mg)

I\'ll give it a try this afternoon

[Simon Ravn]

I\'m not sure about the memory-meter in GS - to me it seems to be able to show weird things http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif MOSTLY it shows nothing when I boot the program, but I have seen cases where it was at some 3x-percent when booting. Anyway, if VCACHE is set to 65535 it\'ll take half of your memory, which is way too much.

[PaPa Chalk]

You need to upgrade your cpu to a PIII. changing these settings may help a little but your problem starts with the chip and overclocking.

http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif
PaPa Chalk

[Jo-Seth]

Yes I agree that I need to upgrade my CPU and will be doing so shortly. However, this problem only started happening with a recent clean install of W98SE. Before that it worked fine - I could load Bosendorfer, activate reverb in one of the aux busses and no problem. Now it crawls. Surely the resources display (under My Computer/Performance)should not drop from 98% free to 66% free after loading GigaStudio ? No problem playing the Bosendorfer in Gigasampler (I reinstalled that last night, then switched back again to Studio)

[nous]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jo-Seth:
Yes I agree that I need to upgrade my CPU and will be doing so shortly. However, this problem only started happening with a recent clean install of W98SE. Before that it worked fine - I could load Bosendorfer, activate reverb in one of the aux busses and no problem. Now it crawls. Surely the resources display (under My Computer/Performance)should not drop from 98% free to 66% free after loading GigaStudio ? No problem playing the Bosendorfer in Gigasampler (I reinstalled that last night, then switched back again to Studio)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I\'m curious...were you running Win95 before?
Steve

[Jo-Seth]

Ok the problem is fixed but pretty illogically! When I first installed Gstudio I uninstalled Gsampler first - thats when I had this crawling PC problem. I then uninstalled it all, then reinstalled Gsampler and then Gstudio without first uninstalling Gsampler. The problem was gone. No idea why ! It has brought to my attention though that Gstudio is much more resource hungry as a program than Gsampler...