Was your onboard card disabled in the BIOS before the XP install or did you simply try and turn it off thru Windows...huge difference here. And a classic symptom of problems. The Q10 should rock straight away...providing your box is correctly configured to begin with. I suspecy some serious hardware trouble here...

Update when you can.

Cuzin B

I have at least tackled one big problem so far.
I had a great system with one exception. I temporarily had been using a cruddy 8MB Trident PCI video card. It must have been hogging PCI resources and so when I would scroll in vegas4 with it playing it would majorly stutter. NO MORE now that I swapped it with a slightly better AGP Radeon card. That took care of that.

Now I'm waiting to see what happens with my first heavier session tonight. I never had issues with Vegas3 and hopefully that will continue. I'm still a lot confused about proper settings between my Aardvark Q10 and Vegas with regards to Sample Rates and Bit Depth. I gonna try 96/24 ASIO for the first time tonight and see what happens.
I'll come back here then and report and you can all act like you care:)

Thanks.
Lamename

******I'll come back here then and report and you can all act like you care:)******

Hey Craig,

I care a lot about the issues I'm seeing in this forum.

I really want to know what happens.

I personally have no need or desire to record at 96k, but I am always using 24 bit.

I had V3 and didn't really use it. My first experience with V4 was 4.0 (build 115). I'm using it to mix with in 3 slightly different systems and have not had the kind of problems I've seen here. I'm not tracking with it, so the track alignment bug as described in other posts is not something that I would have experienced. Also, I'm using ASIO.

The only thing I've ever had happen is a slight "hiccup" when I'm moving in and out of my effects chains on individual channels when the application is in play and I'm using 50 or more tracks.

If I ever start tracking with the program, I will probably want to use Direct Sound for a greater number of externally monitored tracks.

I have P4 systems that are built from the ground up for audio:

ASUS M/Bs
P4 2.0G processor (or bigger) w/onboard ethernet
2 gigs RAMBUS PC800 memory
{One machine is a XEON machine with 2G of DDR}
XP home w/SP1 (audio optimized)
Boot & Write to SCSI 19160 w/15k cheetah or IBM
IDE backup on carrier
CDRW
Delta or Echo sound card

I use SOHO server cases for all of my machines with 400+ Watt power supplies and lots of ventilation.

I wonder if my overall system stability is increased by having the real good power supplies with no voltage increase on the v-core...

tmrpro,
Sounds like you have some nice PCs. I build mine too but not quite as nice as yours.

As for last night session. Didn't keep as many tracks as I was hoping for last night but this had nothing to do with Vegas and more to do with poor performances.

That said, I experienced no problems, no hiccups, no out of syncing, etc with 15 tracks. Again, not that many I know. I would have been very dissatisfied had I experienced those issues with that many audio only tracks.

Just because, I exclusively utilized 96/24 throughout the session and it was cool. Though I agree with you, I don't know that I really need to go with 96 too often. Going 24bit though is way cool.

So, for now, no new complaining. I rest easy. I will add more input into this forum as I do more. I will also continue devouring everyone else's input in this forum in the meantime.

~Lamename

"Poor performance" because of the extra throughput with the 96K, maybe ? How did that comnpare with 48K/44K1 projects with similar track/plug-count ?

geoff

Seems like we have to bit the bullet with 4.0, 2.0 was a smooth program for me, 4.0 is buggy as hell. But still worth the update due to Efx automation.
I just updated motherboard and am now using onboard sound...no problems so far!
You are right about Video cards too, they have a big impack on XP, especially during install...and new is not always better, i had to regress to an old card to get XP loaded up.

I don't have any tips for ya...just to commiserate on 4.0.