I was going to ask the very same thing. Its the same as Vista Optimization page minus a couple tweaks not needed in Win7. All of my systems are W7 4 are 32bit, 1 is 64bit and all are stock. W7 is great!
I do change from Aero to classic theme right click the desk top and choose Personal when I have video running inside the DAW, sometime I can't believe Win 7 doesn't come with High performance mode enabled.
I had to do that myself, and it made this computer crushingly fast compared to what it was before I made some changes. How did you enable High performance mode? Thank you!!! Hi, just a quick enquiry, re latency. I have it set currently where I have to start it by hand and it is quite acceptable to me to not have any networking going while I'm doing DAW stuff. I know about the DPC latency tool so I will be using that to try and figure if something is helping or not like which way of networking is better.
I also know about CEntrance. I'm also quite aware that on many systems, the wireless in particular is a problem. Again, if that turns out to be the case for me, I'm quite willing to disable it entirely. I just would rather not. I would prefer to minimize the amount of hand turning stuff off and back on to use the DAW. I know in general, the more effortless you make something to use, the more you will use it. That is why I have my guitars out instead of in a case where they would be safer, etc.
If its running good, dont do nothing to it Cj I just got the system. I know it will be liveable for the work I do. But I have gotten some occasional dropouts for no apparent reason and I would like to eliminate that. I don't need to get latency down real real low. I don't particularly like things like amp-sims that require that even though I have them.
I'm old fashioned and just prefer to play my guitar through my real stompboxes into my real fender deluxe. I know there are some obvious things I should do on the account I am going to setup.
I know I should disable the sidebar. I know if using aero I should probably disable the glass thing. But I have heard conflicting advice about turning off aero entirely. I'm pretty sure I should disable services like the remote help junk.
Those are services I am unlikely to want on any account. But how much will they really help? Somewhere there has to be a guide on this sort of thing. I just can't find it. Good to know the device manager still works that way. I bet they didn't do it though was because you can have several users on at the same time and just switch between users. Definitely my main user profile does not have admin.
I haven't seen a compelling reason to have it for the DAW user either but that could change. It does. I have a wireless card in my DAW with vista that i enable in the devise manager for updating sonar or my sound card and other hardware devices i use with sonar. There are always implications and side effects to any choices you make when customizing a system.
My general approach for audio is to start with the things I know will be important to do, and then test my performance. But I test with my ears, not by using tools. The tweaks and tips here are not necessarily supported by or recommended by Microsoft, the Windows team, or the companies involved in building the hardware and software you are using. For that reason, the guide here is both longer, and requires more of your active decision making vs.
Personally, I use a desktop PC for my music creation because that affords me the best performance and expansion options all with the best possible thermal management. That said, my audio latency and performance are quite good, despite having made minimal tweaks. Folks often ask about specs for my own PC, so here are my PC specs at the time of this writing. Most of my PC is a few years old now. I tend to update components every years, on a rolling basis.
That setup was the right choice for my build at the time, and as of this writing, I am still using it. I use a mix of hardware and software synthesizers, and primarily software effects although I do have some hardware effects. As mentioned above, I also do non-DAW work on this PC video editing, 3d modeling, software development, writing this blog post, graphics work, games, and more. All of it is connected to my PC audio inputs.
There are lots of helpful folks on forums who can help you there, and who can give you up-to-date advice. Some many of the DAW software companies have their own tweak lists. They are a best attempt at covering the ecosystem of devices that run their products. They tend to do even more for their systems. They know the subset of hardware they target, and they know what they need to be able to support over time.
They also know which subset of software they support, and how to get the most from it. Enough with the disclaimers. Agree, disagree, or otherwise have an opinion on anything here? Please drop me a note in the comments. The majority of your performance is going to come from picking a good audio interface with good ASIO drivers. Those folks will have their own information to go by, and rather unique needs which may push them further than most folks need to go including restricting to known hardware that may be several generations old.
Remember, sound travels approximately one foot per millisecond. So the typical stage monitor, for a guitar player, is around milliseconds of latency away from them if not using in-ear. For those of us with studio monitors, they are usually ms away. Headphones have less latency, but only if wired. Wireless and Bluetooth protocols add their own latency in communications to the headphones. The decisions you make here will completely influence your options when it comes to actual tweaking.
Desktops have more expansion options, and most importantly, much better thermal management which include larger quieter fans.
I know many musicians who hate the loud fan on their laptops once they kick into heavy production. Larger fans can spin more slowly while moving the same amount of air as the much smaller fans in a laptop.
Slower typically means quieter. High-quality name-brand fans here also make a difference in airflow and bearing noise. Additionally, laptops and tablets are very prone to throttling the CPU to reduce heat. The last thing you need while recording is the CPU to slow down. This happens a lot with any consumer laptop that is optimized for size and weight rather than heat dissipation.
Note that you can mitigate this a bit with dedicated active cooling pads for your laptop should you need to, but those little fans still tend to be quite loud. My son had a gaming laptop he now has a desktop. Whenever he spun up a more intense game, the fan went into full jet engine mode.
But boy was it loud. But in the PC world, we have a decent choice to build or buy a desktop as an alternative. Tweaking Windows Vista. Version 3. This is version 3. Tweaking your computer is about more than just speed tweaks. It is also about proper configuration, customizing, and maintenance. Like the XP tweak guide before it I've done my best to explain the tweaks without going overboard.
I hope this guide will help you to make your Vista experience a little better. I've set up a place for comments and feedback here. RAM is fast and Vista will take advantage of it. You'll hear people whine that Vista hogs RAM
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