bad performance on very fast machine

DaDj_ · Post by **DaDj_** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 04:01

Hi i have been playing with Resolume version 1.1 beta 4 on my machine which is a P4 3GHz with 1Gb ram and a geforce 4 4600 Ultra, but anything over 320x240 will dramaticly decline framerates and thus render higher settings useless.

Even at 320x240 performance often drops dramaticly when using 2 avis at once..

Is this a beta issue or just bad code?
other than this i really love the program and hope to see new betas soon!

DaDj_ · Post by **DaDj_** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 04:34

ow and yes, i did try several different video codecs and uncompressed

jm_ · Post by **jm_** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 14:52

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hello
ive been useing resolume for live video and
it works fine (actually for 3 hours straight sometimes)
my setup
xp pro
athalon xp 2ooo (1664 mhz)
256 mb ddr ram
4 gig sys drive
40 gig maxtor drive(media)
40 gig maxtor (page file)
mege speed geforce card 128 mb
sounds to me like it might be your hard drive(s)
i use 640/480 clips w/ cinepak
and sometimes use straight 720/480 clips dv codec
this program is incredible solid.
audio sync would be nice,and some sort of vector or random pattern genarator would be sweet.

peace

agitate peace

Jeremy_ · Post by **Jeremy_** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 19:23

I'm agreed with jm... it sounds like a HDD issue.
How many Cache has your HDD ?
What is the speed of your HDD ?
Regarding your RAM, is it DDR ?
and what is your OS ?

DaDj_ · Post by **DaDj_** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 23:26

heya, I have a Western Digital 120Gb 7200rpm with 8Mb cache. The ram is RD-Ram and i am running win XP pro with SP1 and direct-x 9...

jm_ · Post by **jm_** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 17:51

your hdd sounds fine (do you have 1 for every thing)
i find splitting stuff up between them works for me.
xp,resolume and all programs on c:
pagefile,other media on D:
640/480 clips and a folder w/ my decks on E:
i defragment before i go to gigs,also
at gig i turn off services i dont need(spoolserver,scanner drivers anything 2 get as much memory as possiable then start resolume load deck,minamize give resolume hi priority in xp taskbar,then go back 2 resolume and adjust my tv out window 640/480 16bit and hit full screen.
hope this helps sounds like you have a great setup.

agitate peace
jm

DaDj_ · Post by **DaDj_** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 13:31

yep, its splitted up into 4 partitions, the partition with the footage is ntfs.

Andrew_ · Post by **Andrew_** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 16:45

hmm, strange one,

I've a very similar setup but running a 2.4 ghz chip, and its solid as a rock and flies with the 480x360 clips that I use, 640 clips are no problem either. I have a feeling it may be your graphics card, I use a matrox 550 which seems spot on on resolume use.

I have my drives partioned the same but one thing I have just done is format one of the partions purely for VJing, so a very basic install of Windows 2K and the basics of what I need to VJ. I've done three 4 hour sets with this and it hasn't missed a beat whatsoever.

Even on my old pc (athlon 1gig, 512 133 ram 5400 HD) resolume ran smoothly, and that thing was bunged up to hell with all sorts of programs!

ether_warpTV_ · Post by **ether_warpTV_** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 04:04

i would suggest a separate hard drive for video clips, not a partition, also what video codec are you using?

i have AMD 1.2Ghz
256 DDR Ram
matrox g550
20Gb UDMA drive

- no worries with 3 layers of 320x240 + effects on all layers
i use avi's (ligos indeo codec) and flash

luck

ether_warpTV_ · Post by **ether_warpTV_** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 04:04

... i also have a 10Gb system drive