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4. You may or may not have to disable hardware video acceleration
altogether. You’ll have to experiment to see what works best for your
system. After you set the slider, click the OK buttons to close the
dialog boxes.
After Windows restarts, your new settings will take effect. If you have a
newer computer system with an AGP-based graphics card, you shouldn’t
have to worry about hardware video acceleration problems. AGP-based
cards can access the system memory directly without having to deal with
the PCI bus; thus, they don’t usually exhibit the problems I mentioned
earlier.
Other video-related settings that can affect the performance of your
system include screen savers, video resolution, and video color depth.
Basically, when you’re doing any processor-intensive work with your
computer, you should disable your screen saver. Even when the screen
saver isn’t showing anything on the screen, it sits in the background
monitoring your system for activity and thus takes up processor time.
Plus, some screen savers have no regard for what your computer is
currently doing, and they become active right in the middle of a
recording session, ruining that great vocal track. To turn off your screen
saver, do the following:
1. Right-click anywhere on the Windows desktop and select Properties
from the pop-up menu.
2. Select the Screen Saver tab in the Display Properties dialog box.
3. Select None from the drop-down list in the Screen Saver settings
section (see Figure 2.12) and then click the OK button.
Figure 2.12
In the Display
Properties dialog box,
you can set many
different Windows
parameters, including
the screen saver.
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