Tom Riggs

Bub

Tom Riggs

you can also check the sonar preferences/display setting to see if the use hardware acceleration is enabled. try togging that setting.

Edited for clarity.

This "sonar preferences/display setting" and "hardware acceleration" ... where is that located? Is that something in Sonar or your video card driver? I'm running Sonar X2a and when I go in to Preferences/Display I don't see a setting for "hardware acceleration"?

... the display setting is in Preferences>display and at the bottom of that page is a check box to "use Graphics Hardware Acceleration".

I still can't find it in Sonar. I'm opening up Sonar, hitting 'P' to bring up 'Preferences', scrolling down to where it says 'Display', and I see nothing there that says 'Graphics Hardware Acceleration' or anything close to that. I see options to turn X-Ray on/off and other display related options, but nothing to do with 'Acceleration'.

Are you talking about a Sonar setting, a display driver setting, or a Windows setting? 

Secondly changing the voltage to the ram is not overclocling even though sometimes when you overclock ram that is needed. I have long suspected the OCZ ram I have of causing issues for me even though it passes every test I throw at it. One of the requirements of the ram is that the vlotage be raised from the default up to a maximum of 2.1v. I always had it set for that...what I have discovered is that if I increase the termination and reference voltages from 0.9v standard to 1v I can decrease the main voltage to 2.0v and the ram seems more stable.

You shouldn't have to do that to your RAM. If it was XMP RAM, I could see it 'maybe' because it seems mobo are set up to OC by default. I went in to my BIOS and disabled all that XMP overclocking stuff. My thoughts on it are, if you want 2000MHz RAM, go buy it, don't up the voltage of your 1300MHz RAM.

That OCZ RAM has a horrible reputation, so it doesn't surprise me that you have to do that. They don't even sell RAM anymore as far as I can tell. There's nothing on their web site, and there are no offerings of it on Newegg.

"I still can't find it in Sonar. I'm opening up Sonar, hitting 'P' to bring up 'Preferences', scrolling down to where it says 'Display', and I see nothing there that says 'Graphics Hardware Acceleration' or anything close to that. I see options to turn X-Ray on/off and other display related options, but nothing to do with 'Acceleration"
 
I think it is not a Sonar Parameter, but a parameter of the OS (Windows) ; but i couldn't find it, anyway (though it reminds me something...).

I found it :

http://www.navozhdeniye.narod.ru/263391.htm

For Win 7 :

Follow these steps:

1. Right click on the desktop and select select Screen Resolution
2. On the window that opens up, click on the Advanced Settings link
3. Select the Troubleshoot tab, then click Change Settings
4. Move the Hardware acceleration slider towards none to reduce or turn off video hardware acceleration. d. Click OK, and then click Restart Now.

If it is grayed out, I read this on a forum: There is no way to disable hardware acceleration with ATI or Nvidia 's installed. You would have to remove the software and run a generic Windows to disable the acceleration problem.

TS


"I still can't find it in Sonar. I'm opening up Sonar, hitting 'P' to bring up 'Preferences', scrolling down to where it says 'Display', and I see nothing there that says 'Graphics Hardware Acceleration' or anything close to that. I see options to turn X-Ray on/off and other display related options, but nothing to do with 'Acceleration"
 
I think it is not a Sonar Parameter, but a parameter of the OS (Windows) ; but i couldn't find it, anyway (though it reminds me something...).

Edit>Preferences>Customization>Display there is a check box - it is the last setting displayed in the dialog box.  The text of it reads: 'Use Graphics Hardware Acceleration".  It is right below the option that says: 'Base Octave for Pitches'.


Bob Bone

What the heck version of Sonar are you guys running?

I'm running Sonar X2A Build 354 Producer Edition and I have no option like that.

I'm completely stumped now.

Do you have advanced selected?

Yes, I have Advance selected.

I'm running Windows 7, I wonder if this is a setting that shows up when you are running Windows 8? I think I may have read that somewhere, but I'm not sure.

I don't have it, too.

Bub, do you have a ATI ot Nvidia graphic card (like me).
With ATI ou Nvidia card, you don't have the option in the Windows display settings (cf post 174), and i think that it is why we don't have it in Sonar.