Not stop on dropout?

Throwback time...

Currently broke and using an old copy of 8.5.3 on an XP underpowered laptop.

Running Presonus Audiobox 22VSL and I've tried both ASIO and WDM drivers and longer latency...

On a project running maybe a half dozen audio tracks (frozen) I continually get dropouts stopping playback. I have increased latency far too much to be realistic...

Ok... Enough of the layout...

My question is in regard to an ini setting that enable/disables stop on dropout.

I feel certain there is/was setting to do this. Does anyone know of such?

Thanks...
Keni

scook
You can dial back the sensitivity with the DropoutMsec variable in AUD.ini

Thanks scook...

I saw that one and considered trying it...

I'm also wondering a few other things. It's been a while since I used such a low power machine...

Should I disable indexing n the drive? I usually do for my audio drive, but the laptop only having the one small drive...?

I'm also thinking of moving a 250GB USB drive to use for the audio drive...

Maybe that will help? I hate to move it from the machine it's currently attached to, but...

Thanks again...
Keni

scook
I would disable indexing and any other background process I could shut down. An external drive may help if the projects are are not too big or mostly MIDI. A thumb drive might even help depending on the project. Freezing saves CPU at the expense of disk I/O. It is a balancing act on a resource constrained machine.

Thanks scook...

I had disabled most things already, but I didn't disable the indexing to see if the OS performance might be better on a single drive laptop.

I might try a USB connected drive fir audio and see if that helps. Mu CPU load stays down in the 10-15% range when all tracks are frozen and 50% with session drummer and two dimension pro instances...

Keni