

Those who see no reason to upgrade to Windows Vista, with or without forthcoming Service Pack 1, will be happy to hear that Vista's Readyboost technology is now available on Windows XP via an application called eBoostr. * The kinds of things people do with a DAW can be very demanding, and I suspect few people are running DAWs on netbooks.Free trial available, £15 for full version I assume you're using the internal soundchip? Have you tried a different (USB) soundcard? Even if the CPU seems overtaxed, it's worth trying a different soundcard, because it could be the driver, or for cost-savings they may have simplified the soundchip and handed some soundcard tasks back to the CPU.īTW- One of the machines I use at work has a VIA processor and it is S-L-O-W! No high bit-depths, no high sample-rates, no muiti-channel, and no effects processing, etc.) Playing/recording "regular audio" just isn't that demanding*, but REAPER might be doing some MIDI processing that I'm not aware of. (I'm using regular "consumer quality" files. Have you checked your CPU utilization with Windows Task Manager? Just for reference, I'm on an AMD 2200 machine right now (single core) and when I play a MIDI, MP3, or WAV (with WMP), I get about 5% CPU usage. I wouldn't expect an "acceleration program" to help unless there's some other application hogging the CPU or data bus and the program can give higher priority to REAPER.


I'd never heard of eBoostr, but if there's a free trial it wouldn't hurt to try! )
