I had an out of sync issue once and it was when I had forgotten to stop some services before starting my show. I run XP on a Toshiba laptop with 2 GB of ram.
Before each show I disable my wireless connection and exit all open programs including anti virus. I then go to Control Panel and Open Administrative Tools and then Services. I stop all services that are not needed for the show. This includes Automatic Updates, Anti Virus services, Microsoft Defender, etc.. This should not cause you any issues as the services will restart when you reboot your machine. Enabling and disabling the network connection is a manual thing but quite simple to do.
Pretty much anything that could pop up or start trying to access something when your in the middle of a show. Since you only need to run hoster, there is no need for an internet connection or any of the services listed. Since I started doing this I have ran several 7 to 8 hour shows with absolutely no problems. I have Hoster 4.05 running on the above mentioned Windows XP machine.
October 20th, 2008, 01:12 PM
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