XXHighEnd

Peter, from time to time I get "No Track given" during playback and I have to click OK on a message box for playback to continue. Very annoying. Sometimes it skips track.

But Marcin, unless everybody starts to shout this happens, I blame it on your one core operation. There is nothing left for me to think otherwise. It just CAN NOT work - and only because I say so. Nothing to do about that !

... which doesn't guarantee that this is not about a bug.

And the least you should do is play Unattendedly, that should help anyway.

:sorry: ...
Peter

In the mean time ... (don't laugh) ...

I am fairly confident that my change "XXHighEnd now starts within 5 seconds or so after the last track has been played" causes your misery. Theoretically it could cause a "crash" as such as well, although I wouldn't know how in practice. But fact is that when your disk has spun down and it takes some 10 seconds to spinup *and* your system is not the fastest, playback will just stop, and the X3 log file may end at a random place (as yours showed in another topic).

And so I changed this back to how it was. :yes:

Peter


PS: And you would be bugged by this even at Unattended.
PPS: Thanks for keeping complaining. It just helps. :evil:

I just looked again at your log files, and for one situation (the 2nd here : http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=1308.msg11944#msg11944 ) it indeed would count. Not the other 2 (also a post more down the line in that topic).

OK, let's assume that my PC is low, but these "revelations" don't pop up all the time and I don't use the PC for anything else than playback, I don't even move my mouse :D But you're probably right, it should be gone once I upgrade my computer.

PS
You should precise XXHE minimal requirements for smooth playback in your release notes, that would help newbies and prevent such topics. And I'm not trying to be picky, just want to help you improve your software and grow awareness of rest of the users.

Cheers,
Marcin

Marcin,

Use a dual-core to reference at least, 1 core wont do the complete trick.
Look into your taskmanager --> processes you will see that #3Engine.exe has set to an affinity of 1 core.
So if you use several cores, other processes can be done on the remaining cores.
wow, less issues, better sound
 :)

PS: Just a though, what if, we now asume that underclocking/undervolting is good, but what if is all about raw cpu speed, all can be dealt with much faster,
      so more "headroom" for music, it would probably be something in between.

Peter,

Best would be i think 3 cores for windows and software,
1(2) cores exclusively for xx audio tasks.

Can there be played with those affinity assignments, i mean at programmers level.

Hoi

Roy, there is no rule, believe me. I've flashed my Cantatis to ESI firmware again and here I can say without any doubts that it sounds better on 2 cores. With native Cantatis firmware and VIA drivers, the sound is better on 1 core, it's like they programmed em to work on a single core computers, very strange. I wouldn't have thought that drivers matter this much...