Problem with Breakaway Broadcast…

He’s asking what the CPU Ghz is rated at. For example: Pentium4 @ 3.0GHz or Pentium II @ 250MHz, etc…

Hi Carl! Sorry, I missed your reply before.

The CPU is too slow for Breakaway Broadcast. There’s two options — either use a faster CPU (preferably a dual core intel, such as an Intel Pentium), or use Breakaway Live, which uses much less CPU.

Did Breakaway Broadcast actually pass through the installation without warning you that your CPU is too slow?

Best,
///Leif

If it passed that test, then it really should work without problems.

Could you take a look at the I/O settings and see if it’s running in "maximum quality" or "cpu optimized" mode?

I recommend trying CPU optimized — the difference is inaudible and it saves a lot of cpu power.

If that’s still not enough, next release of BBP will have a Low CPU mode which will definitely be fast enough — it runs fine even on my single-core intel atom netbook.

///Leif

Something isn’t right. When BBP is installed, it runs a benchmark by actually running the audio algorithm. If it calculates that BBP would use more than 70%, then it tries CPU optimized mode. If that uses more than 80%, then it warns you that your computer isn’t too fast.

As I understand it, BBP installed itself in Maximum Quality mode, as this is the mode it was in. This means the benchmark must have passed at less than 70% cpu load with Maximum Quality mode. How is it then possible that CPU optimized mode is now using 80-100%?? That should be impossible, and I have never seen it go wrong in this manner.

If you shut down BBP, how much CPU is used by everything else? Do you have any plug-ins running, like encoders?

///Leif