Cubase locks up my system
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- KVRist
- 64 posts since 18 Oct, 2004
I dont really understand how this is happening, but I installed Cubase SX on my system and it totally chokes! I have a great audio system, too... a 2.4 Athlon XP, plenty of ram and such... even my motherboard was made primarily for sound and multimedia... Maybe it is because my sound is integrated? But what happened is I was using cubase and after recording about 4 tracks, it locked up... and it wasnt just the prog. that locked up, it was the entire system (didnt bill gates say winxp doesnt lock up? LOL) ok... so i thought it was windows being janky, and i formatted (other things were telling me it was time to format anyway). Well, after the format cubase now locks up the whole system when i open it... Legit copy too. Any tips or tricks i should try? Maybe I've got some settings wrong?
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- KVRist
- 164 posts since 10 May, 2004 from England, UK
I would suggest that the onboard audio isn't helping the cituation but it still shoulden't be that bad.
As for bill saying Win XP dosen't crash...he's right. If you left Win XP on its own and installed no other software it woulden't crash...ever.
He did also so that it was the end of the BSOD with xp, but he just makes it so that xps default setup is to reboot when you get one, so you don't know what is actually causing the problem...nice one!
Anyway back on topic.
As for bill saying Win XP dosen't crash...he's right. If you left Win XP on its own and installed no other software it woulden't crash...ever.
He did also so that it was the end of the BSOD with xp, but he just makes it so that xps default setup is to reboot when you get one, so you don't know what is actually causing the problem...nice one!
Anyway back on topic.
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- KVRist
- 151 posts since 20 Nov, 2002
Cubase with an internal soundcard is no match. You need at least asio drivers and better a real audiocard with proper asio drivers.
Is the cards sample rate locked to 48khz?
If you system crashes it's driver related
Try installing a generic asio driver for your build in card http://www.tippach.net/asio4all/
And select it in your device setup.
My windows XP system has never crashed so it's not that bad.
Is the cards sample rate locked to 48khz?
If you system crashes it's driver related
Try installing a generic asio driver for your build in card http://www.tippach.net/asio4all/
And select it in your device setup.
My windows XP system has never crashed so it's not that bad.
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
Having a crap soundcard will give you latency and sound quality issues. It's doubtful that it's actually causing your lock-up, IMO.
Yes, you'll need a proper soundcard anyhow (I wouldn't even buy Cubase without one!), but I think you'll find that your lockups don't go away.
Greg
Yes, you'll need a proper soundcard anyhow (I wouldn't even buy Cubase without one!), but I think you'll find that your lockups don't go away.
Greg
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- KVRAF
- 4738 posts since 20 Feb, 2004 from Gothenburg, Sweden
Plenty of mobo's now have the nforce sound chips, those have asio drivers nativelykagemusha wrote:Cubase with an internal soundcard is no match. You need at least asio drivers and better a real audiocard with proper asio drivers.
Is the cards sample rate locked to 48khz?
If you system crashes it's driver related
Try installing a generic asio driver for your build in card http://www.tippach.net/asio4all/
And select it in your device setup.
My windows XP system has never crashed so it's not that bad.
(my and my gf's shuttles do).Stefan H Singer
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