Why is PT 9 so unstable?

[noah330]

I have to say that PT9 has been rock solid for me since the day it came out. Running a MacPro with nothing but PT9, FCP, DP7 and Peak on it - not even Word or iLife.

[KMcK]

The Mbox3 series are all pretty craptacular. I dunno who they were buying their clocking chips from, but they're obviously quite horrid.

You should be a lot happier with the Apogee. A buddy of mine just mixed a movie score using the Ensemble, it worked great with PT9HD.

And FWIW, I've found PT9 to be extremely stable across the board. "LE" and HD versions both running great on a variety of machines with different interfaces (no MBox 3's though, hehe).

[DigiTechSupt]

Originally Posted by garnoil

It runs out of memory and crashes every 4 hours or so....on a film session. Tech support knows this....stable?

If you're running out of RAM, that's likely the cause. Pro Tools is still a 32 bit app and you can generally use between 2.2 and 2.7GB of RAM before it gets into possible problem territory.

If you're getting close to those limits, you can quit and relaunch, which will generally flush unused RAM, or do things like remove unused regions, region groups, automation or anything not specifically needed in the session to reduce the RAM usage.

Until Pro Tools goes 64 bit, RAM usage limitations are going to be problematic.

[AdamPT8]

Originally Posted by DigiTechSupt

If you're running out of RAM, that's likely the cause. Pro Tools is still a 32 bit app and you can generally use between 2.2 and 2.7GB of RAM before it gets into possible problem territory.

If you're getting close to those limits, you can quit and relaunch, which will generally flush unused RAM, or do things like remove unused regions, region groups, automation or anything not specifically needed in the session to reduce the RAM usage.

Until Pro Tools goes 64 bit, RAM usage limitations are going to be problematic.

Hi, do you have any possible ideas on my problems?

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http://duc.avid.com/showpost.php?p=1782471&postcount=7

[Craig F]

Adam, you need to give full details about your system.

For all we know your trying to run it on an C64

[AdamPT8]

Originally Posted by Craig F

Adam, you need to give full details about your system.

For all we know your trying to run it on an C64

I made a full thread about it but nobody replied.

PT9.0.1
Mbox 2 mini
2009 15" Mac Book Pro
OSX 10.6.6
Lacie D2 Quadra 500GB HDD

If that isn't everything please let me know.

[KMcK]

Originally Posted by AdamPT8

I made a full thread about it but nobody replied.

PT9.0.1
Mbox 2 mini
2009 15" Mac Book Pro
OSX 10.6.6
Lacie D2 Quadra 500GB HDD

If that isn't everything please let me know.

How much RAM do you have?

What connection (USB/FW400/FW800) are you using for your hard drive and how did you format the drive when you first got it?

[basslik]

Originally Posted by DigiTechSupt

I beg to differ - Pro Tools is very stable for a vast majority of people.

In every case I've personally dealt with there's always *something* else contributing to the instability - incompatible plug-ins, configuration issues, hardware issues, bad RAM, etc.

While no software is free of bugs, there's no supporting evidence that Pro Tools is inherently unstable.

I suspect budget ram.

[eledu]

Originally Posted by lexaudio

I'm still on 9.0, OSX 10.6.3 and it is rock solid.

LEX

I dont know why, but I always felt that 10.6.3 is THE version to do audio....
I'm in 10.6.4 now but things felt snappish before. And 10.6.5 completely ruined my system, so I went back to my 10.6.4 cloned partition.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend called me in desperation, because the PowerBook that he uses live to trigger sequences (audiotracks from PT) started to fail (Dae errors) live. And he usually removes all the plugins as he only uses the PowerBook, one of the first intel ones, to play audiotracks.
My first question was "which snow Leo version number are you using?" and he said that he just made a clean 10.6.something install and then combo updated to 10.6.6. He made a clean install and update twice before calling me. I told him to install 10.6 and them combo update to 10.6.3 only. And that was it. Still up and running with no issues at all.
Cheers.
I

[basslik]

Originally Posted by basslik

I suspect budget ram. 16 gigs of ram is pretty pricey, but if you got the budget stuff it will rear it's ugly head.