Windows: 1.5 GHz CPU or faster, 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended), Windows XP or Windows Vista, Windows compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended), QuickTime 6.5 or higher, DVD-ROM drive
My PC has:
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
1 GB RAM 266MHz PC2100 DDR FSB 533
120 + 300 GB 7200 RPM PATA Hard Disks
Ableton Live 7.0.5
Windows XP Pro SP2
M-Audio 410 FireWire + Pinnacle DV PCI FireWire interface (TI chipset)
AudioSystem (TerraTec) EWX 24/96 PCI
I optimized my PC following Tascam's and Tarekith's guides, in addition to the optimization thread Diagnose and Optimization of Windows performance. For reference only, my optimization is described in a first thread, very long, and in a second thread. I ended up with very poor and unacceptable performance with Ableton Live.
Here are the results of the Tarekith's Performance Test. The test was made with the PCI soundcard. Using the FireWire soundcard the performance is even worse.
1) Ableton Live CPU Meter: 160% (2 tracks) 230% (4 tracks) 330% (6 tracks) 440% (8 tracks)
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model: Desktop
3) Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2
4) Ableton Live version: Live 7.0.5
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
6) Amount of Ram: 1 GB
7) Soundcard: AudioSystem (TerraTec) EWX 24/96 PCI
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9) Number of playback tracks? 8 Tracks (???)
Is anyone having an acceptable performance with a PC having the same specifications? I am not able to search in the LIVE 6 & 7 PERFORMANCE TEST - Results Here thread for a system similar to mine that yields similar performance results. Is there any spreadsheet containing the data in that thread?
Do you have any suggestion for further optimizing?