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Title: Unattended won't play Special mode... Post by: CoenP on March 30, 2011, 03:33:30 pm Hi,
Since the basics seem to work consistently, Im up for the next challenge! I've been playing music with special mode in an attended setting up till now. With the settings in my signature, this works perfectly. However when playing (ticking) unattended the music becomes unlistanable. It is fragmented like having a to low buffer setting. I'm allready at a max for that to play special mode attended. The boxes services off are both ticked (no networking either). It takes about a minute to start. I would have expected unattended to be less resource demanding and therefore more capable of playing in special mode. Obviously I am wrong :)! Any tips to get this sorted out? regards, Coen Title: Re: Unattended won't play Special mode... Post by: PeterSt on March 30, 2011, 04:06:50 pm Assuming that indeed Attended works fine with the very same settings, I would try "Do not start playback at all", now start Playback for Unattended, and when the message about the Services has disappeared, use Alt-P for starting playback.
Let me know whether this helps (I am not saying it will !). Title: Re: Unattended won't play Special mode... Post by: CoenP on March 30, 2011, 04:48:08 pm Unfortunately this does not work :(.
I am not connected to any network so I shut off all relevant security. Autohotkeys also behave strange. Alt-p, alt-p works, however in unattended Alt-S brings up windows and shuts off XX. Alt-X doesn't seem to do a thing in unattended. Title: Re: Unattended won't play Special mode... Post by: CoenP on March 30, 2011, 09:46:13 pm Ok,
This problem isn't solved really, but I found some changes that made it work ( at least for some undetermined time). The first is cpu appointment scheme 2. I don't paticularly like the sound of this, this got me searching further. The second is memory to mixed. This goes quite well, but cant hold my attention. (gee i'm critical ;)). The third is working right now with the best sq i ever had. Settings according to the profile, however with the gigabyte cpu/fan utility running. I noticed before that app scheme 3 runs more stable or even at all with this program started... :scratching: Title: Re: Unattended won't play Special mode... Post by: PeterSt on March 30, 2011, 10:40:51 pm Haha, you got me too confused to respond with even some sense. Could be the time of day though.
Sorry ... :) Title: Re: Unattended won't play Special mode... Post by: CoenP on March 31, 2011, 05:30:25 pm I seem to run into a lot of strange stuff!
It does get weirder. I noticed today that the sq was nowhere it was yesterday. Late Night syndrome? Nope. The difference between yesterday and today is that I had the task manager running whilst playing (to see if my hotkeys work). Brought up taskmanager started xx (unattended) and bingo there it was again: excellent sound. Another thing, maybe related (?). In the bios I noticed the HPET timer. wiki says: Quote The HPET can produce periodic interrupts at a much higher resolution than the RTC and is often used to synchronize multimedia streams, providing smooth playback and reducing the need to use other timestamp calculations such as an X86-based CPU's RDTSC instruction and: Quote perating systems designed before HPET existed cannot use HPET, so work only on hardware that has other timer facilities. Newer operating systems tend to be able to use either. Some hardware has both. The following operating systems are known not to be able to use HPET: Windows XP,[note 2] Windows Server 2003, and earlier Windows versions, Linux kernels prior to 2.6.[note 3] The following operating systems are known to be able to use HPET: Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, x86 based versions of Mac OS X, Linux operating systems using the 2.6 kernel, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. Maybe some of the differences between XP and Vista/Win7 can be explained as well as the taskmanager having an influence on the interruptpatterns. regards, Coen regards, Coen |