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Date: 2003-05-12 |
Author: neurodancer |
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Lets talk about stability, noisebursts, and how Buzz works best. (this is not exactly a sound review as you may guess)
I think there's quite a Buzz user base running Buzz on either Windows 2000 or Windows XP - and they have the same problems over and over again, so here's a few tips.
1. empty the "themes" folder if you experience crashes right after starting Buzz
2. It is said that Buzz was developed on Windows NT4. So, use the compatibility mode and run it in NT4 mode!
What most people don't know is that Windows 2000 does have the compatibility mode, too. It requires service pack 2. Here's how to activate it. Press Windows-R to bring up the commandline box. Enter "regsvr32 C:\WinNT\AppPatch\slayerui.dll" (replace C: with the drive letter where your W2k is installed).
3. set your system to run optimized for background tasks (My Workplace/Properties, then last tab)
4. create a batchfile that will start Buzz at higher priority (reduces stutter when moving machines in the machine view while playing), all you need is
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START /high buzz.exe
5. decrunch the buzz.exe (its is packed with UPX, an executable file packer freely available on the net)
With these minor changes (and carefully sorting out "crashy" gear by experience), I haven't had a single noiseburst in a year or something (at least in my own songs! hehe), and the only crash that hits me all the time is the Matilde tracker volume-without-note bug. :-)
Maybe it helps some of you out there. Have nice evening,
Alexander.
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God how I hate it when everything in these... peak-brackets is interpreted as html.
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That batchfile must read:
CD [your-buzz-directory]
START /high buzz.exe
...thats it.
2003-05-12 by neurodancer |
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EAAARRRRGHHH... two lines of course!
CD [your-buzz-directory]
START /high buzz.exe
2003-05-12 by neurodancer |
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So working with buzz unpacked with UPX is a good idea? Could you explain this for me a bit? :) 2003-05-12 by hamsteralliance |
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| i'm curious in what's related noise bursts with all these stuff.
hamster: unpacking buzz.exe will make it load faster but you won't notice much if already got 500 plugins in your gear folder. I have about 20-30 plugins and buzz loading time before/after uncompressing .exe was noticeable. 2003-05-12 by djlaser |
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I don't really know if I have a good exe. Cuz I fixed it with jeskola's startup fixer. It's very strange that buzz doesn't crashes anymore (with no comp mode set) when unpacked with upx
What about background service; I don't get that one? 2003-05-12 by h.u.n.t.e.r (be) |
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| I said my buzz didn't crashed on startup anymore. Hmm; I rebooted and it crashes on startup. So I was wrong: I need to set NT comp mode. 2003-05-12 by h.u.n.t.e.r (be) |
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Unpacking (any) executable is a memory fragmentation (and who knows what else) issue. The packed executable (or at least a portion of it) needs to be loaded into memory so that the unpacking routine can unpack the data. Thus you end up with two separate portions of memory being used (which is not that much an issue on modern machines with lots of memory, its rather a matter of tidiness).
About the background task optimization... from my experience GUI stuff is "foreground", while rendering stuff (here: audio) is "background". I notice the described effect (less stutter on songs with heavy CPU load when dragging machines).
About the noisebursts... I believe it depends on the (combination of) machines in individual song setups as well. They way I setup my songs I just don't get any noisebursts in my songs - I can't tell you exactly what I do, it may be the unconscious memory that helps me avoiding combinations which exploded on my in the past... ;-) 2003-05-13 by neurodancer |
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| Wow maan !
Big Tnx for that stuff ...
especially for the tip on NT4comp on Win2ksp2 ...
hopefully that'll improve buzz stability,
but i got much confidence in your tips ;) ...
Thnx once again,
SynAEsthetiq 2003-05-14 by SynAEsthetiq |
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