MadTracker - Forum - Is it my cpu?

Color scheme

QBical
Registered User

Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Utrecht , The Netherlands

Posted: Tue Apr 12 2005 17:27 Is it my cpu?
Hey all... Lately I'm having some problems with MT. Not realy big ones, but anoying. Everytime when I play a track, that's filled with VST's, EQ's and stuff, madtracker creates a spike of CPU usage, the result is madtracker stopping. And when I deselect stop on CPU overhead madtracker stutters as hell at these times. These spikes happen at random and are realy annoying. Never the less, I combine madtracker with lots and lots of plugins so maby that's the case, or maby it's the EQ's that are still a bit buggy. But since I have a P4 3Ghz with 1GB duallayer ram I expect my pc to handle it... Do you guy's have the same problems? and what are your specs? Do I need to buy more ram, or a new cpu or both? HELP! Grtz Raymond
PC: P4 HT 3ghz, 1gb ram, 500GB+ Storage, plextor DVD-rw, M-audo Audiophile 2496 Laptop: Apple Powerbook G4 15inch Other Stuff: Phonic MU802 mixer, Alesis M1 Active Mk2 Monitors, Ipod 2nd gen. 20GB, maxtor firewire HD 80GB

N0N
Registered User

Joined: 20 Oct 2003

Posted: Tue Apr 12 2005 20:22
Hey QBical I get the same problem, kinda. I dont get spikes anymore, I used too, dont know what happend there (oh yea something about using a MT loop and the eq's, and after you stop the loop the eq kinda does some kind of cpu feedback thing, maybe, or at least thats what I found when I got that problem, I stopped makeing loops in MT because of that I think). But It also might be your soundcard, I've noticed that when I run any of my songs, or the MTchainsong I'm only useing 0-70% cpu power, but mt reads 0-100%. So that might be an issue, don't know. But you can always deselect HQ filters, volume ramping, soft clip, and/or use no interpolation. maybe a combination will work better for you, I've had to turn them all off when workin on the MTchainsong with over 40 vst's!!! and MT eq's used on at least 20 tracks. P4 3ghz 512 ddr ram. So your pc should kick my pc's butt by a little bit anyways.

Inge
Man-At-Arms

Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Nieuw Lekkerland @ Holland

Posted: Tue Apr 12 2005 20:30
There are 'rumours' that this is Intel Pentium related. AMD-based systems are not known to have these problems with MadTracker. I hope Yannick will be able to fix it (if it is MadTracker related, that is). Inge
Care for a game of Monopoly?

Sunbuster
Registered User

Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Finland

Posted: Tue Apr 12 2005 22:21
Yeah, I have never had MT stop on me, but I do have some tracks that seem to demand quite a bit of the CPU. Though I'm guessing that's totally related to the nr of fx (both MT and VST) that I have running. Sometimes the pattern view would lag behind 0.5 patterns or even more. Sometimes MT has gone so slow I have seen it fit to shut down and start over, but it never actually stopped. I do however have the occasional dropout of sound when playing these intense tracks My system: AMD XP 2600+, EpoX 8RDA3+ mobo, 1GB DDR-RAM @ 166MHz bus speed, shitty old Aureal Vortex2 SQD PCI soundcard, great old Matrox G400MAX gfx card

Page 1 of 1

All times are GMT + 1 Hour