Partitioned RAM

[Alex Contero]

Hey I’m pretty new to Cakewalk. My PC has 16GB of RAM but every time I run Cakewalk it cuts 8GB away and marks it as “Hardware Reserved” so I’m only getting access to half my RAM. I can fix it by removing and reinstalling the cards but it’s a massive pain when I want to use my PC for gaming. Is this normal or does it at least have a work-around? I’m thinking about upgrading to 32GB but I don’t want to waste the money just to have it eat up half of that too. 

[mettelus]

1 hour ago, David Beaudin said:

wake up my computer

I am assuming you are allowing your system to sleep/hibernate (?), which Windows is notoriously bad at. Even though the intent is to wake up a computer in its previous state, there are other things in the background that can cause the interface drivers not to come back online properly. Letting the monitor sleep is fine, but the system should not be allowed to sleep/hibernate when using it as a DAW.

Even with hibernation disabled, Windows will continue to build the hibernation file in the background, which consumes both resources and disk space. I posted this a couple weeks ago on how to disable Windows from creating the hibernation file completely if interested. If you have hibernation disabled, letting Windows build that file is a waste of resources.

[sjoens]

Good to know. Mine was 13GB since I reinstalled Windows a year ago.  Even if not used as a DAW, hibernation is a waste of resources IMO.

[Amberwolf]

3 hours ago, sjoens said:

Good to know. Mine was 13GB since I reinstalled Windows a year ago.  Even if not used as a DAW, hibernation is a waste of resources IMO.

Not for me; I use it every day, so that all the things I have "running" on the Win10 system are saved, system powered off while I'm not home (gone to work, etc), then I just turn it back on to restore the machine state when I get back home.  

The only issue I've run into with the old Sonar I use, and the old Avid Fasttrack USB audio device, is that occasionally when I go back into Sonar, it'll stutter and dropout. If I simply restart playback a few times, the problem goes away.

I'm sure that for others it's much more of a problem, but in my case, it isn't.  

 

(On even more ancient computers with WinXP, I used it with no problems with an even yet more ancient GadgetLabs Wave8*24, didn't get the stutter/dropout with that.)

 

So, there's no absolutes....  

[sjoens]

True.  I shudda clarified "for me", that is. YMMV.