Originally Posted By: Dignan
get a new PC that will handle this stuff better


Uhhh... it's not like I'm running a Commodore 64 here. smile

AMD Dual-Core 3 GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, 3.5 terabytes of hard drive, nVidia 8600 GTS video card with 256 MB... Even though it is nearly three years old, I think it is adequate to my needs. Since I'm running 32-bit Vista, there would be little advantage to adding another 2GB of RAM.

One thing that did work beyond my expectations was increasing the priority. As an experiment, I set the priority to "Realtime" and ran 44% more simultaneous audio streams than I had ever successfully run before (increased from 18 streams to 26) and had a flawless conversion. (This was with virus scanning temporarily disabled.) Now perhaps I was just lucky and no other processes started up during the run, but this is definitely something I will try again.

tanstaafl.
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