Resolume Forum

I've been looking at prices on some athlon64 laptops. Not too shabby.

The Aviator AX6 comes to mind, 1600mhz FSB! ATI Mobility 9600 Pro Turbo 128mb!

Will that FSB help resolume in a big way? if not, I'll save $ by going with a P4. I'm looking at pushing the limits to fullscreen full rez. Thanks.

Eno

go for a p4 3.4 GHZ or more .. the athlon64 do not run at a high clock rate (yet) ... and clock rate (MHZ) is what makes resolume go fast ...

go for the Athalon64... they give you apx a 25% performance increase over the P4 when running win xp(32bit os)... due to the backwards compatable 64bit archetecture and the 1600FSB... Once microsoft releases windows 64 later this year(built on the amd archetecture instead of the intel archetecture like it is now) and resolume is updated to use the 64bit functions (as all windows applications eventualy will due to the new os)you'll be much better off and won't have to upgrade as soon as i did... i have a p4 3.0 800mhz fsb and 320x240 works great... but when i bump it up to 640x480 i have some slowdown issues when using too many clips/fx... as of now i can get 2 640x480 picMjpg at there highest quality settings with 2 fx with little to no slowdown... i'm plaining on getting an athalon64 3.2 1600mhz fsb later this week... and i'm expecting a performance increase... btw... 4 athalon 64's running a 64bit os can do the work of 10 p4's running a 32bit os....
-paul.
-aurOra.

That's good and all, but I think the major bottleneck in playing largfer clips in Resolume is probably the speed of the HDD. You can build the toughest computer on the block, but put a slow HDD in it [as most laptops have] and you are shooting your own horse before the race even starts.

Yeah the Hitachi 7K60 is the shit from all reviews (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storag ... -7200.html) planning on upgrading in the next few weeks.

I'm not sure about laptops... i Use a shuttlex sff and a samsung flatpanel... laptops arent fast enough in my oppinion to do live video... esp at higher resolutions...the mobal p4 is a conciderable amout slower then the desktop p4.. i have a WD 8meg cache (9600rpm i think, maby 7600) that reads at somthing like 400 megs/sec.. with pic mjpg at it's highest setting each file is apx 1500kb/s data rate... so the drive is more then fast enough.. it's more of an issue of how fast the fsb is(how fast the data gets from the hd to the processer).. the major issue is processer power for decoding the files and running the fx... my plan is to buy another shuttle and a high rez capture card... run onn machine as the video mixer and run one layer with it's fx and a master fx... and use the other machine to run vjo, winamp, or resolume handling all the processing for layer2.... and pass the signal over using the capture device which takes lots less processing power then decoding and what not... and possably run my cam in also for live feel.. (hopefuly the firewire issues i've been having will be fixed in 2.0 =) my cam's a piece of crap though.. stupid canon)..
i've tride this setup with my current machine... (one layer file, one layer firewire, and one layer low rez capture card) and it worked great... i don't see why with 2 machines the res can't be bumped up to HD or atleast ED.. high rez, 30fps, sound responcive, multilayer video.. all perfectly fluid...
-paul
-aurOra.

Hello guys,

I bought a laptop a month ago but it's not performing as I hoped it would. When I use resolume and start a clip the screen freezes for a split of a second. Very annoying and so far my laptop is not usable for vjing

Below are the specifications, maybe someone has a idea what is causing this problem and has a suggestion how to solve it.

By the way when I use resolume my Cpu usage is high, between 80 and 95 %.

THNX!

Mark

Processor:
Mobile AMD Athlon™ XP-M Processor, speed: 2600+
L1 cache 128K, L2 cache 512K

Chipset:
SIS M746FX + SIS 963L

Main Memory:
512MB DDR333 SDRAM, 2x SO-DIMM socket expandable to 2048 MB

ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON™ 9600 PRO
External 64MB DDR VRAM

and a external 7200rpm harddisk.