New Monitors - Slower ProTools ???

[Intersound]

@ 25ghosts : thanks for this consideration. But somehow I cannot immagine that PT is somehow affected by the size of a monitor (maybe DIGI can help us out on that ?). This should be the job of the graphic card and the OS itself. But who knows what a computer really does

@ 1m1 : thanks buddy. I will try the same again. Tomorrow I should get 4 GB of extra RAM - maybe that could also be the flaw. I'll let you know....

Best, Intersound

[Intersound]

Update :

Well I got the 4 GB extra Ram and thought this would change something.
Nope !
At least PT and all other Programms feel obviousely more comfortable with the extra RAM but that doesnt change the behaviour of these small delays.

I guess I have to do more research, update to PT8, change the graphic card or get used to this

Intersound

[mrjohn]

After changing the monitors on my Mac Pro it went a bit strange, I couldn't select the correct resolutions and the monitors were not recognised.
I called Apple support and they advised me to reset the NVRAM. Instructions here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

Hope this helps.

John

[1m1]

Originally Posted by mrjohn

I called Apple support and they advised me to reset the NVRAM. Instructions here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

Hope this helps.

John

That's a good suggestion. I'll be curious to see if this solves the problem.

[Intersound]

Hi John,

seems like a very good suggestion. Thanks, I´ll try that immediately and keep you posted.

Best, Intersound

[Intersound]

@ John : Well, if you´re asking me, I have the impression that it slightly improved the behaviour of PT but its not totally gone. I´ll try again with 1m1 suggestion (changing resolution), maybe thats the final clue (?).
Anyway, thanks again and best regards,

Intersound

[Intersound]

Hi,

I though I´d update this little thread,
as I finally found out what the cause was :

It seems like our MacPro (2007) was very unhappy with his 7 GB RAM.
After searching several MAC forums etc. I tried the following :

I removed 1GB (the old pair that came with the computer)
so that only the pairs of 2 and 4 GB remained on the riser cards.
Restarted the computer and : Everything back to normal !
Nice speed and ProTools behaviour, as it has been before....

Somehow the MAC (or ProTools?) tried to adress the RAM in a way
that these little delays were caused.
So obviousely it had nothing to do with the new monitors
But strange enough that these problems came when changing the monitors, NOT the RAM ?

Maybe I was just lucky and removed some faulty RAM - who knows ?

Well, now I´m happy again and up to speed for some real Powermixing

Great forum, keep it up !

Intersound

[1m1]

Cool - I hope your fix holds! Were you continuously having this issue up until recently? I haven't experienced it in the last 8 months or so myself.

Thanks for updating us.

[Intersound]

@ 1m1 : Yes I kept having the porblems - they even got worse (more and longer delays), that why I guess it was some kind of faulty RAM issue.
Until now the delays dissapeared and I´m back to normal - I´m pressing all my thumbs
Thanks for your concern,

Best, Intersound