Max Arwood Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 (edited) On 2/27/2021 at 12:25 PM, Colin Nicholls said: With my beloved Echo Layla3G PCI/ASIO at the heart of my system, I suspect I'm not upgrading past 1803 until the hardware dies. Thank goodness for Winaero Tweaker. Collin - I am running an older Echo card Original Layla 24/96 No problems with 1909 18363.1379. I would probably get better latency with a newer card LOL! Thanks to Pete Brown for the great video and tweak guide and for checking in here! Edited March 6, 2021 by Max Arwood 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garybrun Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Dont know how I missed this thread.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martsave martin s Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 On 3/3/2021 at 8:19 PM, Bruno de Souza Lino said: Or you could use OOSU's ShutUp10. what's that do ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siordanescu Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 No problems at all with my M-Audio projectmix, TC Electronic Konnekt 24 and Alesis IO 26...on the latest Win 10... 20H2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 The background/foreground* "tweak" is still out there "officially" (https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207355205-Optimising-your-PC-for-Audio-on-Windows-10) and unofficially (https://www.soundonsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=76781) * From memory, and unless something has changed since XP/Windows 7, this doesn't change the priority of threads, but how long they run for by default - cf. https://medium.com/@dikrek/processor-scheduling-and-quanta-in-windows-and-a-bit-about-unix-linux-fb5ab02828e2 (a few years old, but chimes with my memory). I do wonder if the "tweak" was , say, Cubase specific originally, since the copy-protection was running in the background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 Background mode raises the thread quantum which is how long it is allowed to run before being task switched. This could generally be bad for low latency audio performance on multithreaded machines when you have other multithreaded processes running, because another thread could be blocking the engine from processing in time. Its another one of those tweaks that happened to work for some system configuration and gets propagated on the internet as being the truth. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fogarty Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 On 2/26/2021 at 10:53 PM, Noel Borthwick said: Im exclusively using edge these days including on an iPad where ironically it generally runs better than Safari. intriguing. Must try this. Chrome really flakes out on Ipad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fogarty Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 just to chime in I did these tweaks on a new laptop and she’s purring like a kitten. Thank you so much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teegarden Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 @Pete Brown I like the way you guide a user through the whole tweaking process! Just read your power plan switching guide update. It might be easier for most users to just install PowerBuddy. No need to use the command prompt. It installs a little taskbar button which let's you immediately choose any of the Power Plans you have configured in the Windows Power Options menu. I use it all the time when changing between DAW and other PC tasks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fogarty Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) Update of my post above where it says everything is purring like a kitten. I have intermittent skips. I don't want to steal the thread, but I was so happy with my portable set-up (Thinkpad XI) and Yamaha keyboard or Babyface interfaces. Did all of Pete's tweaks that I could understand and it seemed to run well. Is there a button list somewhere of all the exact tweaks that the kind gentleman took the time to make for us? I want to make sure I didn't miss something because my classy computer is unusable in a professional surrounding right now and that's things that make you wanna go..... What happened is I was listening a to a one hour piece in Sound Forge and about, gosh, 12 minutes in the sound completely took a dive like the tape snapped, but back on again in time. It happened to me live with my XPS 9350 that I was using for VST's or some songs just a stereo loop - and it would skip. Random. Intermittent. Once in a song. Some kind of interference. On the live gig I wasn't online so it wasn't that. Is anybody successfully using a Thinkpad for recording. . Tonight -update, edit, it did it watching YouTube. I will try stuff and get back.Maybe I should try offline as it is wi-fi. (or get a LAN adapter for the Yoga. Thanks. Edited March 15, 2021 by Michael Fogarty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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