Cubase 5 locking up

Cubase
#1

I’m using an old P4 laptop (1GB ram and xpsp3) and cubase 5.5.3 to do some live playing. Nothing taxing at all - a few hypersonic patches and one or two kontakt samples.

About every hour or so, Cubase locks up for about 5 seconds and then releases.

Any ideas what may be causing this? I’ve set up xp the way I normally do for DAWs that I build / install which has always worked successfully on other machines.

This one has got me stumped.


Any help greatly appreciated.

Matthew

#2

sounds like every hour or so something is kicking in and using resources that cubase needs. just what that may be is anyone’s guess. maybe a tad more ram would help but I’ve ran C6 on xp with 1gig (just for a giggles) and that worked fine!

#3

Thanks for your reply.

Yep I wondered if something was kicking in. Can’t think what though. Have turned everything off I can think of:-)

#4

Auto save? Power saver setting?

#5

Thanks for your reply. Yep got both of those turned off…