R2.41 - Video Slow Goes Sluggish

[craftycurate]

Does anyone else find R2.41 sometimes goes into a really sluggish playback (maybe 1 or 2 frames\sec) , maybe if there are other apps running in the background? I have been using Ableton Live in the background (avoiding heavy CPU) to control R2.41 and sometimes dive into Swishmax2 Flash editor.

When this happens, I can restore some order by changing the Screen Preferences, and it returns to normal, for a while anyway.

I've done as much optimisation as I can find ... unfortunately this is my only laptop, so it has to have the usual stuff on it (antivirus etc), though I would normally disable this. Maybe I'll look at dual boot at some point.

Anyone else find this drastic slowdown? Any thoughts, tips, tricks (apart from the obvious)?

Thanks
Richard

[vjcharm]

Running apps in the background will definitely slow things down, how much RAM do you have?

I too notice that it slows down by the end of the night, but then again I attribute this to the fact that I run long clips (several minutes long usually). I have a duocore 1.6GHz, 2gigs RAM on XP.

[craftycurate]

Running apps in the background will definitely slow things down, how much RAM do you have?

I too notice that it slows down by the end of the night, but then again I attribute this to the fact that I run long clips (several minutes long usually). I have a duocore 1.6GHz, 2gigs RAM on XP.

Core 2 Duo 2Ghz, 2 GB Ram.