I just put together a new computer and guess what...

darr wrote on 5/14/2001, 2:36 PM
Yes I am now using an intel 815e mobo.
I thought maybe it would clear up the record meters
latency.They always are behind the actual sounds being
recorded.
Has nothing to do with any suggestions offered by Sonic
foundry.
I have no prob in other programs.Matter of fact they are
very well.
Also when you go to grab the track scroll bar on the right
to pull down to see more tracks,The task manager reports
jumps from 55-80%.This is scary.If you had a project that
was already churning away 50%,what do you think would
happen to your session on playback.You would hit the top of
your cpu and stop.
This is not good especially for a product that really needs
to use video which is more of a hog.
I have no idea where to go any farther with this ,but it is
not acceptable under our heavy sessions.
This is with a small session of 8 tracks as well!!!OUCH
All other programs show a bigger session with only a 5-10%
jump on screen draws.
Sonic foundry,you really need to address this.
This is a serious prob with the product.
Please let us know of your stand on this prob.Thanx.

Comments

Rednroll wrote on 5/16/2001, 8:59 AM
Alo everyone, I've been away in Sao Paulo Brazil on
Engineering business for the last month. I know you've all
missed me...LOL, but figured I'ld stop in and see my
favorite forum.

Your question-
I have not seen these problems. I would actually suspect a
problem with your video card drivers or the card itself.
I'm using a 700Mhz Athlon with an 8MB ATI video card, 128MB
RAM, and have seen no latency in record meters like you
describe. I have learned that video cards seem to be a
problem in Vegas.

Regards,
Brian Franz
SonyEPM wrote on 5/16/2001, 9:13 AM
One thing we have seen time and time again is IRQ/bus
throughput problems with PCI devices. Windows 2k force-
assigns all PCI devices to IRQ9, which can really mess up
performance in anumber of different areas.

You can disable this "feature" in the bios and assign
separate, UNIQUE irqs to bandwidth hungry devices (and you
can assign irqs even more easily in 98).

If you aren't already aware of this (its been a topic on
this forum multiple times), try assigning scsi, 1394, video
dispay, and sound cards to different, distinct irqs. I have
confirmed, on my 3 systems, much better recording and video
performance once the irqs are laid out correctly. Quite a
few users of our products (and other products) confirm this.
I don't guarantee it will solve your problem, but I do
think its worth a try-
chaboud wrote on 5/17/2001, 7:41 AM
Hey, darr..

Try this one out.

>from a 4/30/01 response>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well, if showing the waveforms during recording is less
important to you than metering, go to OPTIONS-
>PREFERENCES. Go to the Audio tab and look for "Waveform
display while recording."

It should be set to "Show all waveforms" by default, but
setting it to "Don't show waveforms" will pick up your
meter speed quite a bit.

Tell me how it works for you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The trick is that meter drawing is at a very low priority.
Why? We consider audio gapping to be much worse than meter
slowness.

Personal taste?
mc