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Topic: poor performance Win 7 Babyface ... anyone help

Anyone having experiences with Babyface and Win 7?

My audio is skipping every 10 seconds or so, glitching and I am having trouble getting decent playback. also, in ableton live the CPU usage is spiking like hell periodically......

thanks,MR

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Re: poor performance Win 7 Babyface ... anyone help

Please post your system specs and Babyface latency settings so people can understand your operating conditions.  Is the Babyface plugged into a hub or directly into the computer?

You may want to run DPC latency checker to see if you have anything in your system that is causing intermittent spikes.  It's usually a wireless card or something running in the background.

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Re: poor performance Win 7 Babyface ... anyone help

Thnk you very much for your help/ I am running Win7 64, using ableton Live, 4 gigs RAM, 256 samples buffer. The card is operating very well except for the occasional audio stutter or glitch, Can you recommend a DPC checker? Thanks again

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Re: poor performance Win 7 Babyface ... anyone help

This one has helped me diagnose periodic audio glitches before.

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

Basically just download the program, run it, and watch the meters.  Try to unplug or disable devices (wifi, blutooth ...) one at a time to see if you can get rid of the spiking.  I turned off the wireless card on my laptop and my spikes went away.

What processor?  Laptop or desktop?  256 samples isn't too low provided you have a quick processor.

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Re: poor performance Win 7 Babyface ... anyone help

In Control Panel, set power scheme to High Performance/Always On.

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  • Registered: 2007-11-28
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Re: poor performance Win 7 Babyface ... anyone help

Thanks. My specs are

Win7, i7 Quadcore 3.3GHz, Intel, 12GB, 256GB SSD.....

in other words, it's a beast. I just need to tweak the system. Ill try DPC and get back to you

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Re: poor performance Win 7 Babyface ... anyone help

Well I had the same problems with my rme 400 using windows 7 64bits. I didn't have spikes but the asio meter in cubase was moving like crazy in small steps. Tried all sorts of thing to get it stable but with no luck. I guess its normal to have around 100-200us with dcp checker in windows 7. Reinstalled windows xp and my dpc latency is now 4-5us max smile

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