Being past the half century I try to avoid any of these new fangled gizmos like Window XP (I've lived happily with Win2K for many years) but the new box came with XP Pro SP2 pre-installed and HT don't work with Win2K anyways so I've had to take the leap into the unkown.
So far everything flies very nicely, even the XP activation that everyone liked to winge about was painless, did it over the phone, if you ever needs to do this I'd recommend a speaker phone.
Anyway there is one problem I'm having and I'm pretty certain now it's an XP problem. Playing out ANYTHING including DV25 with no FXs on the Vegas T/L every ten seconds the fps drops for about 2 seconds, capture is fine, no dropped frames, render and encode speeds are blisteringly fast although they too seem to dip at around the same period.
Now I'm pretty certain this is caused by XP firing off some service or polling for something. I've disabled and unplugged all network connection but that makes no difference except I have a stuck on network connection labelled "Windows TV and Video" (or something similar), XP will not let me disable this connection which is odd. I doubt it's the gremlin but who knows.
I'm not really that interested in wringing ever last ounce of speed out of XP, I more of a leave well enough alone kind of person but I would like to kill off whatever is causing these jumps in playback cause it's mighty distracting.
I know there's been several long threads some time ago about tweaking XP but that info could, given SP2 be a bit out of date.
Bob.
So far everything flies very nicely, even the XP activation that everyone liked to winge about was painless, did it over the phone, if you ever needs to do this I'd recommend a speaker phone.
Anyway there is one problem I'm having and I'm pretty certain now it's an XP problem. Playing out ANYTHING including DV25 with no FXs on the Vegas T/L every ten seconds the fps drops for about 2 seconds, capture is fine, no dropped frames, render and encode speeds are blisteringly fast although they too seem to dip at around the same period.
Now I'm pretty certain this is caused by XP firing off some service or polling for something. I've disabled and unplugged all network connection but that makes no difference except I have a stuck on network connection labelled "Windows TV and Video" (or something similar), XP will not let me disable this connection which is odd. I doubt it's the gremlin but who knows.
I'm not really that interested in wringing ever last ounce of speed out of XP, I more of a leave well enough alone kind of person but I would like to kill off whatever is causing these jumps in playback cause it's mighty distracting.
I know there's been several long threads some time ago about tweaking XP but that info could, given SP2 be a bit out of date.
Bob.