program locking up

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Originally Posted by admin

Basically I agree with Dale, but here are our recommendations.

1. With all the features we now have, 1GB RAM is requiured.

2. Hoster must be on the C: drive. What he wants is not possible. PERIOD!

3. MTU recommends doing ALL Custom Windows Updates. Dale may be right, but if anything is not working right, do ALL upgrades.

Hoster 2.219 is no longer supported. It will not work with currently available CD/DVD drives at all. Very old drives are no longer recommended, so you have a Catch-22 to worry with. Use Hoster 3.321, which will release today.

Thanks for the response. I'm great with computers, but have no experience with Hoster, so the help is very much appreciated.

My client has opted, at least for the time being, to stick with the version of Hoster that he's been using. It works for him. Any computers I do for other clients who happen to be karaoke DJs will get whatever is the newest version, and I'll strongly recommend that those customers opt for WinXP over Vista.

My main solution to the problems was to uninstall Hoster and re-install it on drive C:. Strictly from a throughput standpoint, I'm honestly not sure why this should make a difference. Once loaded, the executable should reside in RAM and swap/virtual memory, and is much smaller in size than any of the KMA files that will routinely be ferried back and forth across the USB bus, but if it will solve the locking up, I'm game. After the change, we tested the machine in every way we could think to, and all appears to be well. I'll be hoping for the best.

The quantity of RAM, 512mb, is the amount that the client has been using to run his shows for over 4 years, so for the version of Hoster he's using, I feel confident that it's sufficient. I'll definitely adhere to the advised 1gb (or more likely ensure success with 2gb) for builds that include more modern versions of Hoster.

I should find out Thursday night or Friday morning how everything is going.

thanks,

Shaun