Help!!! Computer skipping during songs!!!

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by magog2k

Hi. Love hoster!!! Just bought a new laptop, and I'm having some issues with it.

dell inspiron
windows 7 64 bit
quad 2.27 GHz
4 gig ram
hoster 4.20

Seems like some nights, it randomly will "pause" during a song for about 2 seconds. When it resumes, the music is behind the words. Very frustrating for my singers. I've turned off windows Aero, disabled my antivirus during the show, changed the color to 16 bit, and yet I can't seem to figure out what it would be. Any help out there?

Also (not sure if it's related), the music DOES always skip when minimizing/restoring any windows to the taskbar.
Also having issues with the "undock and resize" preview screen.

Don't know what to do. I'm at a loss for what the problem is. I'm not sure if it's a compatibility issue with windows 7, or if it's a problem in windows 7 itself. Anybody out there got ANY ideas?

First thing is to go to the following link and do everything suggested in it. These are all the items that will help Hoster run as smoothly as possible.
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/windows7-changes.htm

Your biggest problem is that laptops use "Shared" memory for video instead of dedicated memory. This means that the minimum amount is allotted to the video card.

[magog2k]

Just seems weird. My older laptop with Vista never had problems skipping during songs. And that was Vista. Vista sucked.

[Roy Dennis]

What sort of problem are you having with preview undocking ? It doesn't take effect till after you re open Hoster.

Roy.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by magog2k

Just seems weird. My older laptop with Vista never had problems skipping during songs. And that was Vista. Vista sucked.

I am not sure why you say it seems weird. Windows 7 is based on Vista.
If you have gone through and done all the items listed above by Roy Dennis and myself then you can also try going to Blackviper.com and try turning off some of the background processes that are not needed.

[magog2k]

Simply saying that Vista was full of bugs, and Windows 7 seems to run much better than Vista did, other than the obvious skipping that I've been expereincing.

As far as the Video docking/resize issue, it's still doing it after restarting Hoster, or the computer. Might be more of an issue with 4.20. My Dell with Vista has the same problem as of late, with resizing the Video preview screen. Not that big of a deal.

I've already gone onto black viper and turned off some of the "unneeded" processes. As I had said before, the skipping is way better than when I first installed Hoster. The only problem is that I never know when it may skip---I have to run a show to find out if it's gonna skip. Just quite embarassing for me to have singers get frustrated at me for the skipping.

Guess I'll just keep playing with it until I figure it out.