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Is this a video card or CPU problem?

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Syntho:
I've successfully synced Logic and Pro Tools without a problem. Everything plays back smoothly as long as I don't have a million things going on. But something I noticed is that at a certain point, the refresh rate of the graphics slows down. Everything sounds OK and is playing back fine like I said, but the graphics seem a bit off.

The timecode on the transport and the digital meters in the mixer now appear to be going in slow motion sort of. I'm on a 1.25 MDD with 1GB RAM and a GeForce Ti card. I wouldn't think the video card to be the problem, it may be that a 1.25ghz CPU just isn't enough to handle both programs at once (but remember, it's the graphics that slow down).

I've read to not use a dual CPU machine, but Logic 6.4.3 has multi processor support built in so maybe that'll help with the load I'm putting on the machine.

Syntho:
Actually, I think the problem is SoundDiver. That's funny because it takes up very little system resources. I get that slow motion effect when it's open and it immediately goes away when I close it.

Protools5LEGuy:
I have the same slow redraw on screen with the beta drivers direct connect 128 with my ghz dual with rage 128 and 1 gig ramram on pt5Le with logic 5.
The redraw is someway better withgeforce2, but not too much away.
At least the sound do not stutter. The same goes with protools on play when you go menus. The redraw stops but the sound not!
That is well coded software

Syntho:
I opened the OMS Setup editor alongside Pro Tools and PT started giving me the same slow redraw. Maybe this has something to do with OMS and not the software that's utilizing it?

Maybe not though, I can get Logic and Cubase to play safely together with no redraw issues and both of those programs use OMS.

supernova777:
it sounds like its a software related problem, ie: the computer is stupidly trying something over and over and getting stuck in a loop somehow..
not the computers fault, but rather a problem with the software programming + current configuration

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