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Digital Cause Digital Cause is a male

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what are the signs that the computer can not handle a large project? ive recently been getting little stutters whiile my comp. runs large reason projects, I am quite low on ram, but was just wondering if there are any other possible causes for this? ive got an m-audio soundcard, but i think it is just the computer being slow as ive used more and more cpu intensive things in my projects recently....

so it stutters while it plays and gives off a kinda fuzz when it does this (its not clipping), anyone know what this is down to?

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03-09-2006 20:29

Philthy McNasty Philthy McNasty is a male

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It is because you do not have a big enough processor. Open you porject and run it....also open your task manager....and play your project. Right when it starts to fuzz, if your CPU usage is above 60% then that is probably it.....if it doesnt peak out then your sound card is out of date, or cannot handle the vst's. I had the same problem, and I figured a way around it. Take each track that you have a vst on, and render each one to a new track. This way you will still have the vst on the track but the cpuasge will not come into play because it barely uses anything to play just a regular file. hope that helps!

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03-09-2006 21:52

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he said he uses reason so it wouldn't be a problem with vst's

but like iKon said open the song(s) that is causing the problems and open task manager. then you should be able to see if it is maxing out your cpu.

How much RAM have you got and what spec is ur cpu?

also in reason, if you go onto preferences there is a option that allows reason to use a little more of the cpu and it will let it max out a little further

i think the default setting is 80% so increase it to say 90% and that should help a bit.

but you should think of upgrading if Reason maxes out your comp.

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05-09-2006 21:00

Muad'Dib Muad'Dib is a male

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Or kill all the background processes and services which take additional RAM and CPU power.

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06-09-2006 04:58

D2o

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i never know which processes are needed or not

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07-09-2006 16:55

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