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Hello,
since BIAB 2009 crashes are much more frequent that before. However I could live with that situation mainly because most of those crashes happened upon exiting the program.
It's been a couple of days now that I can hardly use BIAB. It crashes during playback most of the times.
I have noticed that the problem occurs when I 'm using any of the new styles (the one that causes the problem now is PROGROK2) especially if there is an audio with vocals loaded or I'm in voice recording mode. I would mention mixing MIDI with RealTracks as another main cause but this has been a problem since the first days of BIAB2009.
I have not made any changes to my configuration nor did I install any other software. All I notice in my Task Manger is that the CPU usage hits 100% and stays there for a few seconds. Then it crashes of course.
I'm using BIAB2009(282) with Bandstand as VSTi (however problem occurs witn ForteDXi as well) and MME audio. It's worth noting that I have no problem with styles that use 100% RealTracks.
I 've got a Celeron 2.8G, 1Gb RAM and around 8G free disk space. One may argue that disk space is insufficient. May be. The thing is that it's been a long time since I had more and anyway I did not have such serious problem a few days ago with the same disk size.
Can anyone help?
PS: When I'm saying "crashes" I mean that during playback sound and moving from bar to bar are getting oyt of synch until sound gets totally distorted. The stop button does not respond and most of the times I have to kill the session.
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Hi,
The problem may well be in using Bandstand VSTi as there have been many users with problems who have ceased using it
Make sure you also do a regular DiscClean and Defrag to keep your computer at it's best - also some spyware can max out your resources
jazzman
BIAB - RealBand - 2022
Windows 10 64
Zoo computer with 7i processor- SSD 1TB -2TB HDD
Roland keyboards
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Well you aren't crashing, exactly, you are experiencing what sounds like a disk throughput problem.
There is soemthing that may have happened if you are running XP:
The disk could have showed 6 errors in a row and the OS could have reverted the disk from DMA to PIO operation. PIO is characterized by high CPU usage when the disk is spinning (as indicated by the disk busy LED) and longer bootup times.
Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
Check the Properties of the channel your hard drive is on, usually the first Primary if C: drive, by rightclicking and selecting Properties, then selecting Advanced Properties from the top tab.
If you see "PIO" in any of the dropdown windows there, your disk has reverted.
Try resetting it to the highest DMA setting available and reboot if such is the case.
If that clears the problem by indicating a return to UDMA or DMA after a reboot and revisit, then do the disk cleanup followed by defrag immediately.
If the disk is already set to DMA or UDMA, then proceed to the Disk Cleanup and then Defrag before trying anything else. BB with RealTracks needs not only some disk space, but a defragmented disk in order to operate properly.
There can be other reasons for what you are experiencing. This is the most likely, thing, the disk health, from your description of the problem, though.
--Mac
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