Audacity Sluggish and Often "Not Responding"

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AudacityAholic
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Re: Audacity Sluggish and Often "Not Responding"

Post by AudacityAholic » Sun Mar 16, 2014 9:30 pm

your probably have too many programs running in the background while your running audacity...this program does require alot of ram when running effect especially if you are running an effect over the entire project...you can hit ctr alt del and go into task manager....kill some apps and processes you dont really need running
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Re: Audacity Sluggish and Often "Not Responding"

Post by Gale Andrews » Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:28 am

AudacityAholic wrote:this program does require alot of ram when running effect especially if you are running an effect over the entire project
That is only true for Nyquist effects (and it affects some of those more than others). It is not a serious problem for built-in effects.

Waiting for the waveform to redraw after running any effect on a long project is an issue.

An effect may well use up a significant proportion of CPU.


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