dropped frames in a bad way

INFMAN wrote on 9/2/2003, 7:23 AM
I recently upgrade from a p3 650 133 fsb to a p4 2.8 800 fsb. For some reason when I capture in vegas I experience dropped frames to an extreme extent, the audio drops out and the picture freezes....does anyone know what the cause of this could be? I never experienced this ( at least not to this extent) on the older system.. could it be a fualt in the operating system, hard ware or what?

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JJKizak wrote on 9/2/2003, 7:51 AM
One of the easist things to try is to disable your 1394 network connection,
not the 1394 connection for capturing. The disable only removes the network
portion. Also check your DMA settings for your drives.

JJK
DGrob wrote on 9/2/2003, 9:43 AM
Did you also upgrade to XP? All the issues re defragging, background apps, etc seem exacerbated in XP. Check out:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/support/SupportProduct.asp?FamilyID=30&Family=Vegas&TopicID=89&DetailID=879

More detail about your new setup config will help this forum work with you. DGrob
INFMAN wrote on 9/2/2003, 1:56 PM
didnt upgrade to xp yet....I was planning on upgrading...Im still in win98..the odd thing about it is that this didnt happen in my older p3 650 system and it happening in my new p4 2.8 system
Begbie wrote on 9/2/2003, 7:18 PM
I would be using msconfig to check what apps are running at startup and disable all the ones you dont need.

also using ctrl+alt+del to bring up the task manager and watch this during capture/render to see if anything else starts using resources at the same time as you drop frames.

I use a p866 and can capture and render without frame loss %100 of the time - if i launch other apps, or ESPECIALLY if i have explorer open and watch the file size increase, or press F5 to refresh it, i will lose an arseload of frames EVERY time during capture.

Disable EVERYTHING and capture, it works fine, enable one thing at a time and capture again each time until you find the culprit.

Suggest you upgrade to at least win2k urgently - win98 isnt a really stable OS at the best of time, let alone dring intense resource usage.

EDIT: the link above is not for win98 tweaking, its for XP/2k and you should take care that attemtping what sofo advise you could easily toast your restry and end up with a non booting system - i think the advice in sofos link above is unlikely to rectify and shouldnt be your first port of call.
INFMAN wrote on 9/3/2003, 2:08 AM
I was using win98 on a p3 650 system people and it didnt do this to the extent it does it now.... so it cant be the os or the system any one have any other suggestions