Running Out Of Cpu Power, help please! Options

[anakinsrightarm]

hellooo i have a macbook pro with 1ghz ram. i run pro tools LE 7.3 and have had the issue of running out of cpu power. i get the error message "you are running out of CPU power. Remove some RTAS plug ins or increase the cpu usage limit in the playback engine dialog. (-9128)"

i am not running that many tracks (3-4) and only about 2 plug ins and i am still getting the problem.
i also increased the cpu usage limit in the playback engine dialog with no luck.

i thought it had to do with not having an external hard drive, so i picked up a glyph 050 250 gb hd. on other forums they said it didnt have to do with the hard drive, and to come here.

thanks

This post has been edited by anakinsrightarm: Wed 2 Apr 2008, 04:23

[qusp74]

no problem,

But i'm afraid its not just protools you'll have to say goodbye to. 1gb is only JUST enough for the system to reside in, so if you want to use any applications at all (especially DAW's, or photoshop and alike) without bogging down your potentially quick system, you will have to get more RAM. Also, forcing it to use scratch memory constantly uses heaps more battery power because the hard drive is always in use.

If you plan to use BOOTCAMP or something similarly sac religious then you will have a whole new world of memory headache.... Windows is even more memory hungry than OS X

Fork out for the ram you won't regret it either way and no matter what you are doing on your mac; you will notice the difference immediately.