responsiveness, resolume,

[liquidl]

Hey all, thanks for the previous help with my dual monitor questions and whatnot. Thanks to you guys, I got through my first show and had a lot of fun.

Now that that's over with and I'm lined up for another gig, I have a couple of questions.

First, because my current laptop, a dell inspiron 8000, is having some kind of problem with projection (it'll only project in blue as if the green and red channels are missing, and I've been told that it's most likely an internal problem on the circuit board) I used my older dell inspiron 7500 with a pentium II chip and about 2 gigs (out of about 4) of free disk space last time.

As I was working with resolume during the show, however, I noticed that most of the clips were moving slower on screen than they had when the output monitor was still docked. The same went for trying to speed up the frame rate of the clips (it would just start dropping a lot of frames), or with playing a number of clips on random mode. Also, I wasn't able to change clips as quickly as I'd been able to on the 8000 with output docked.

My next show I'm going to have to use the 7500 again as I won't be able to have the 8000 fixed in time, so is there anything I might be able to do to make the 7500 faster/more responsive? Last time I was hooked up through the serial port in the back of the computer. Is there some other way of connecting that would be better?

Other than that, there were a couple times when my cursor would get stuck on the second monitor and I wasn't able to control the resolume deck. Can anyone tell me how this happens and/or how to get out of it if it does?

In any case, thanks in advance, and any advice is much appreciated.

[murph]

dude, the 7500 is a beast. I'm surprised resolume even runs! Good luck is all I can offer, sorry... =]

[krokodril]

resolume tends to preload sets, demanding a lot off memory.
it seemed slower you said, might it be that you were working with a bigger set(more clips) in the live situation?

to solve this split up the libraries, should solve the hanging'cursor aswel

[MoRpH]

Solution = download TZT, 'nuff said. Better in every way cept midi, if you cna live without that your rockin'

[murph]

I should offer a better explaination... before the 8000, the vga/tv output was vastly underpowered compared to the lcd, so the video card probably can't keep up the output, but also it was more taxing on the cpu to split the signal. The 800+ and especially the 8200 have much better dualhead performance due to faster video, faster cpu, and evenly matched ramdacs. Make sure the video mode is set to 320x240, or like morph says, try TZT or SVI, but I dunno if either of those can make your system output full screen video any faster. (though they may be nicer on the cpu)

Good Luck. =]

[labmeta]

I`m running resolume on a lappy with a pretty shitty video card [odd unheard of brand - cant remember the spec off hand] and i get fairly good fps playback. surely the dell7500 cant be that poor, can it? How are you running fullscreen. do you set output at 320x240 and scale it up to monitor size and then hit fulscreen or do you just hit fullscreen. i get differnet performance with the two process`s.

[MoRpH]

Originally posted by murph
I Make sure the video mode is set to 320x240, or like morph says, try TZT or SVI, but I dunno if either of those can make your system output full screen video any faster. (though they may be nicer on the cpu)

I had MUCH better luck getting proper full screen full FPS on seconddesktop out (AND STILL KEEP my preview on the main UI) in TZT than I ever did on resolume, as I said the only thing is the midi, oh and that TZT is free ;D

[liquidl]

hey, cool. Yeah, last time I'm pretty sure I was trying for 640x480 then telling it to scale up, and getting all my clips out of the same folder too. I'll start playing around with TZT and see how that works.

thanks yo, :)

[wangllou]

Resolume won't even run onm my CPU ...

!! It won't even start !.....but the same file installs and works perfectly on other CPUs, I've checked...

Here's specs

2.00 Ghz ( celeron crap )
512 RAM
GFOrce 440 64MB.....

but it works on CPUs with similiar specs..!!!

Help a Vj. !!!
Thanks

[sleepytom]

wangllou - your computer is broken - try and reinstall windows and see if it works

Morph - please stop it with the resolume bashing - your listed as a project developer for TZT and its _very_bad_form for developers to slag off rival products (constructive critisium is different but simply saying "tzt is Better in every way " is stupid)

resolume is OK - iut can be made to run at a acceptable FPS on even very old hardware - try setting your TVout resolution to 640x480 and telling resolume to process at 320x240 and then scale to fullscreen.

[seex]

Hey liquid, it culd be that you dont have the colour depth of both screens set to 16 bit, the same happens to me if i run on 32 bit colour depth resolume is fine until i undock the output screen than evrything goes realy slow.

[wangllou]

Sorry about the Resolume bashing, but...hey, I'm registred as a TZT project ?

uauu..

Why ?


but...hey...my coomputer is certanly not broken, thanks anyway

[Rovastar]

Raising a year and a half dead post too.

Morphs comments were from Feb 2003

That way it is wrong to raise posts from the dead it causes confusion all round.

*clunk*