Crappy results on the Dave C test

Spookster!!! You in OS 9 or OSX? You may already have these settings if not try setting monitors to Thousands not millions. If your in OSX you NEED MORE RAM!!!!! 640mb isn't much in OSX. Max it out to 1.5 Ghz of ram. In OSX make a new user and on that user only have the bare essentials and PTLE. In OS9 make a new extension with only PTLE and the bare essentials. In OS9 allocate more memory to DAE. Sorry, I can't remember the exact numbers. But, don't over due it either. Keep the minimum the same!! These may help, if your in OSX and OS 9.

Thanks Gorrilla, I'm in 0S9. I've already created an extention set just for PT with the bare essentials. Or what I think are the bare essentials. I've allocated 200 MB's of RAM to PT and the DAE, and left the minimums the same. When I ran the test, I didn't have the monitor settings on thousands. I'll try that and get back to you. Also two 512 chips of RAM are the max for the eMac. It only has two slots. But I've been meaning to max that out, I should do that, RAM is cheap. So do you agree that 10 tracks with the Dave C test is pretty low? Thanks again!

In OS9, you actually want your screen set to 256 colors rather than thousands. Also, make sure you're memory control panel settings are correct (512k disk cache, virtual memory off, RAM disk off) and that sleep/energy saver is turned to Never. Also, just in case you've never heard so, you should be recording to a separate audio drive (though I think you're already doing this...).

You should also reduce the amount of time allotted to recording under (I think) operations. i got an extra track just by setting it to a resonable amount, like ten minutes. It comes set to infinity.