Hoster 420 Lyrics out of sync & Just runs slow

[Allan]

I have Hoster 4.20 my lyrics are out of sync my settings are a -1 max setting still off by a little bit.. also If I seach for song when a songs playing it stops the lyrucs and sometines the music as well.. Ripping cdg's is very slow as well and it takes a couple minutes to open hoster..
I have a pc with XP PRO 2.4 dual pross. with 3 hard drives and 4 GB ram just increased it and that did not help. I also reset the default sttings.. I never had any issues till jumping up to 4.20..

Any Help is very welcome!!
Thanks
Allan

[Roy Dennis]

Have you got visualization enabled ? if so try it with this feature turned off.
You say you have 3 hard drives, is this including your C:\ drive, or as well as ?
Have you done all the custom updates not just the Microsoft recommended ones ?

Is there any other programs running at the same time perhaps in the background ?

Another thing you can try is to untick the box in tools options for include the songs data base.

Roy.

[Allan]

Hi Roy,
Thanks for the help.. Yes I have all the latest updates except mida player I only have 10 not 11 I have DJPOWER on here for my other show where I do music videos they say it won't work with media player 11. yes 3 drives C for programs d for music flies E for video & kma's .. How do i undo the visulation?

Thanks Alllan

[ddouglass]

Visualization is only used for music (not karaoke songs) and is set in Media player. So if you do not have it set in there then you don't have it on.

Turning off the Songs Database is only for Importing and Editing and does not affect Search or Playing.

Laptop or desktop computer?

How big is your C: drive and how much free space is on it?

When was the last time you defragmented all the drives?

One thing would be to try lowering the acceleration on your video card, but first let's look at these other things first, before trying this.
Another would be to try a good System clean up program , like System Mechanic.

[Allan]

My C drive is partitioned C/G widows is on the c drive everthing else is on the G drive side.. it's a 40 gb drive 2 gb on the c 38 on the G.. Yes I have defraged and eorroe check all my drives only hoster is giving me trouble and it all started with 420.. I have never had to change the settings on the lyrics ever.. after you type a artist or tiltle in the search window and hit search the lyric stop and the music skips too I have to search during the instrumental parts of the song so it won't effect the singers.. this sucks! Ihave update the drivers for my video card as well..
Thanks Roy,
Allan

[ddouglass]

I understand the problem , but the root of it is going to be computer related.
What version did you upgrade from?

You should have all your programs on C: not on G:drive. Just because you divided the physical drive putting the programs on G: is not the same as putting them on C:.
Two GB is absolute minimum for Windows when you first load it, but Windows has a bad habit of growing, like when you do all the updates from Microsoft every one of them is added to the C: drive.
Hoster also uses a part of it with C:/MTU to store program items and this is not changable.
Additionally your C: drive has all of the Documents and Settings which includes temp files, cookies, temp internet files, etc.
And last C: drive is the default for your Pagefile, used for swapping video and program information. So you see there is a lot on the C: drive that you cannot change and has a tendancy to build up over time.
My guess is that your C: drive is pretty full. Ideally your C: drive should have from 50 - 25% free space for Windows and programs to operate at optimal speed.