Windows 7 CPU Problem in Sonar 8

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RE: Windows 7 CPU Problem in Sonar 8 2009/05/19 08:03:41 (permalink)
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Timboe - Many thanks for your help. We now have a fully functioning studio, more stable than previous experience with XP. When the time is up on Windows 7 RC I will happily buy the full version and sacrafice a day reinstalling everything.

Thanks again Tim!
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RE: Windows 7 CPU Problem in Sonar 8 2009/05/20 17:15:07 (permalink)
To address John's post, I agree that people should not be running Windows 7 Release Candidate in a serious production environment. That said, I've seen many positive reports on people using Windows 7 for a DAW and will be installing it on my DAW via a separate Hard Disk for testing purposes very soon.

For those who may consider Windows 7 when it releases, this can be a good preview on how well it will work, what tweaks are necessary for max performance, and whether the drivers for your devices will work in Win 7 (remember there were a number of devices that were not Vista ready when Vista launched? Doing this testing ahead of time can help keep you from paying for Win 7 only to wait 6 months for your interfaces' manufacturer to play catch up.) That being said, my understanding is that anything that works with Vista should work fine with Win 7 (although some minor new features would not work.)

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RE: Windows 7 CPU Problem in Sonar 8 2009/05/20 19:58:02 (permalink)
To address John's post, I agree that people should not be running Windows 7 Release Candidate in a serious production environment. That said, I've seen many positive reports on people using Windows 7 for a DAW and will be installing it on my DAW via a separate Hard Disk for testing purposes very soon.

For those who may consider Windows 7 when it releases, this can be a good preview on how well it will work, what tweaks are necessary for max performance, and whether the drivers for your devices will work in Win 7 (remember there were a number of devices that were not Vista ready when Vista launched? Doing this testing ahead of time can help keep you from paying for Win 7 only to wait 6 months for your interfaces' manufacturer to play catch up.) That being said, my understanding is that anything that works with Vista should work fine with Win 7 (although some minor new features would not work.)

Peace,
That is the right way to look at this. I have done the same thing. But I have a solid working Vista setup that is where I do all my"real work".

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RE: Windows 7 CPU Problem in Sonar 8 2009/05/20 21:46:00 (permalink)
I've been testing Windows 7 RC 32-bit with SONAR on a spare hard drive, and I really like it. It is more stable than XP SP3 or Vista, faster than XP, and less intrusive than Vista. DPC latency check is less than half as high as with Vista. 7 is a winner so far.

Timboe, thank you for the highly informative post on the CPU Parking tweak. I'll take a look at that.

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RE: Windows 7 CPU Problem in Sonar 8 2009/05/20 22:02:38 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: timboe


And heres the best part, the above regedit fix was only 1 of 5 "tweaks" done - the only other 4 tweaks were to disable the Windows Search Service, disable the Windows Superfetch Service and disable all USB and disable the AutoRun - everything else [ Aero inlcuded ] was left untouched / stock.

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Tim,

Thanks for the posts here, some useful info.

You mention only 4 tweaks. I was wondering if you considered the folowing tweaks

1) Windows power plans - change to changed the power plans to "high performance"
2) Disable hibernation - administrator cmd window then type -> powercfg -h off


Also, I'd like to know how did you disable all USB ?

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Re: RE: Windows 7 CPU Problem in Sonar 8 2010/08/21 05:09:42 (permalink)
How to properly  disable "Core Parking"

- Go to Regedit 
  
- Find this key:-  " 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 " 
  
- Within this key, there is a value called:  " ValueMax " 
  
- This value represents the % number of cores the system will park - the default 100%  ie:  all Cores are potentially park-able 
  
- Change the value from 64 to 0 so the " ValueMin "  and  " ValueMax " are both zero 
  
- You will have to find the key a few times and repeat the process for each time it is found - the number of instances will depend on the number of power profiles in your system  [  in my DAW it was only found twice ] 
  
- Do a full shutdown and power-off and cold-re-start 

post edited by von boson - 2010/08/21 05:17:44
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Re: RE: Windows 7 CPU Problem in Sonar 8 2010/08/22 08:28:50 (permalink)
Von Boson: as reported in another thread I now have all six cores rocking. I did a complete reinstall of 8.5.3 after doing your mod to the registry and now have all the performance I expected to get. Thanks a bunch.

Still can`t believe I am tracking with .7ms in latency.... I may drop to a 64 buffer after I finish showing off, though...
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