 Help With Powerbook Cpu |
 ven. 15 avril 2005, 07:52
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Please help. I bought my band new 1.5 GHz/ Superdrive/512 ram) os x 10.3.8 powerbook in Jan 2005. There were so many reasons I bought it. For so long I wanted a portable computer that worked, rather than my old windows brick.
I think something must be wrong or the answer is more memory. I want to use Ableton Live but as soon as I start using VST then the computer really starts to struggle. The CPU meter gets up to 100%. I have found the cpu getting this high and staying like it in other apps too, non-music ones. Even now writing this, I only have Live (not actually playing anything), Stcikies and Mail open. The cpu is staying between 65% & 70% and the RAM used is 352MB. This can't be right. What am I doing wrong? I can only think it's beacuse I have installed so much software, (and taken it out), that I need to do a fresh install and see if it's still the same. Thanks all for your help in advance. PS I just switched to MAC 4 months ago! |
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ven. 15 avril 2005, 15:44
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well, if you use TONS (like 20 VSTs) it should bog down.but just a couple should be fine. Dunno. My powerbook 1.25 GHz runs all this stuff and is great with up to like 15 realtime plugins (not in Live as i dont use it, but in logic or MaxMSP or other softs)
that is weird. Make sure there are no hungry background processes running using the activity monitor and what audio interface are u using, and at what buffer size? i get good performance at 128 samples, but lower gets tough for the machine. 32 is just not usable. Only some apps like MaxMSP allow you to try it though. 64 works for light stuff usually. weird. -------------------- -Arvid •• Squish the Squid Productions, Modest Machine
•• digitally augmented trumpet, TOOB, flugelhorn, cracklebox, percussicube, no-input-mixers and Macbook Pro, 2.4 GHz 15", MacOS 10.5, MOTU Ultralite, Logic Studio 9, MaxMSP 5, JackOSX •• •• Electronic-experimental, jazz, digital instrument design, electronics, unique software and performance.•• |
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mishmashmole Help With Powerbook Cpu ven. 15 avril 2005, 07:52
mididiot Run disk utility to repair your permissions. Zap y... ven. 15 avril 2005, 15:46 gdoubleyou The problem is the app itself, Live doesn't su... ven. 15 avril 2005, 18:06 hugo01 maybe could be this: system preferences->energy... sam. 16 avril 2005, 00:03 mishmashmole Thanks for your advice. I checked the startup pro... mar. 19 avril 2005, 13:31 mishmashmole Interesting what you say about Altivec though. I ... mar. 19 avril 2005, 13:32 lepetitmartien I thought the last big update of Live at last brou... mer. 20 avril 2005, 03:52
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