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  • newbie memory anxiety!

    J
    J
    Hello All,

    I just received my Opus 1 today and I'm stupidly excited... However, upon loading up some of the wind "perf" instruments I became fantastically deflated when my P4 1.8/1GB PC gagged and said "out of memory, dude". Ouch! I had naively hoped I could get big orchestral sessions happening between my Mac G4 933/1GB (EXS or kontakt, not sure yet), and the above PC. But, it looks like I'll need an army of machines to get everything running. Am I doing something terribly wrong? Any suggestions would be great. However, my big question is this: sell the Giga PC and my G4 and buy a G5/logic rig with stacks of RAM, or, buy another Giga PC? Any thoughts? I mean, I'd love to have a G5, and could gradually take it to some ridiculous amount of RAM, but would that be a smart way to go?
  • S
    S
    Do you have Windows 2K ? I had the same problem ... with Win98, i'm ok.

    1 Gig of RAM is enough to open several perf instruments. I have the Pro edition and I can load up to around 15-20 perf instruments.
  • J
    J
    really?... I'm runnin xp and I tried loading the Picc, Fl, Ob, Cl, and Bsn perf-leg instruments, in both dynamics, and my Giga gagged when I tried to load the Bsn... That would be just under 10 .Gig perf-leg files... what am I doing wrong? Should I switch to 2k?
  • M
    M
    How far on the Giga memory load percentage scale are you reaching now before the out of memory error pops up?

    IMO, don't switch to Win98 at this point. Even if it's true that a Win98 machine can load more samples if both machines have 1GB of memory that's the end of the line with Win98. If you up the memory to 1.5GB on XP and apply some setting changes on the machine you're up to par with the 1GB Win98 machine in terms of loadable instruments and with 2GB you're quite a bit above. Also, I doubt that the new upcoming version of Giga even supports Win98.

    Win2K won't help btw.

    There's a humongous thread in the GigaStudio forum (started by yours truly) named "Memory and XP once again..." that will make you confused at first but that also contains the details on the memory issues.

    /Mattias
  • J
    J
    thanks Mattias,

    I scanned quickly through that thread, but I'll check it out in greater detail now.