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In Reply to: RE: Windows 8.1 - An everyday setup posted by soundchekk on January 19, 2015 at 06:55:30
Suggest you
kill pagefile
kill hibernation
kill cpu power glide
experiment with Foobar buffers and use KS
kill all Foobar processing such as gain, volume, etc
listen to see what these do for your system by disabling Ramdisk first and comparing it to using Ramdisk
Play with assigning audio processes to one core of your cpu only.
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FMAK:
Did you try these?
https://tweakhound.com/2014/01/30/timer-tweaks-benchmarked/
Run cmd.exe with admin rights.
ON:
bcdedit /set useplatformclock true
bcdedit /set tscsyncpolicy Enhanced
bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes
Now reboot and listen.
OFF:
bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock
bcdedit /deletevalue tscsyncpolicy
bcdedit /deletevalue disabledynamictick
Reboot and your're back to 0.
Check config:
bcdedit /enum
Some more Foobar somewhat (to me) relevant settings:Standard output buffer = 120ms
Wasapi is "event mode"
Advanced Options:
FullFileBuffering = 100000kb
Wasapi event buffer = 25ms (default)
High worker process priority = Yes
Thread prio = 7 (highest)
Use MMCSS = yes
Not sure if all this are the best possible settings.
S'been a rather quick shot. Sounds good to me for the time being at least.Cheers
Edits: 01/20/15 01/20/15
One step further:Added below start string to the foobar desktop icon:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "foobar2000" /affinity 8 /high "C:\Users\XXXXXX\Documents\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe"
I start it after Fidelizer (in Workstation mode). No hazzle to change settings in taskmanager. Puts foobar on CPU3 (4th CPU -- CPU 0/1/2/3 = affinity 1/2/4/8 ) and priority "high".
Foobar RAMdisk playback is giving me slightly better resolution/details/air.
I also reinstalled Foobar without any of the "optional" modules.
I'm wondering how you turned off the volume control?
Cheers
Edits: 01/20/15 01/20/15 01/20/15
Right click on banner, unclick on list
Have you tried disabling all the buttons on foobar? I find it is much faster responding and sonically better this way. You have to stop foobar by pushing the x in the upper right side but other than than I like it this way.
Hmmh.Removing the control buttons from the banner won't
remove volume control! Playback stays at a level
as it was before. I'd expect a 0db output without VC.
Removing the UI controls might lower polling activities towards
these controls.If that's the case. It could also be worth to disable
"start/stop/pause" controls....
...Done that now.
I've configured a few key shortcuts to handle the player:
P=play
S=stop
space=play/pause
N=next
0=0dbHavn't really checked yet if these UI related changes make a difference.
Cheers
Edits: 01/21/15 01/21/15
In Preferences, Replay Gain and Processing should be set to none. VC should be Max before removal.
You need to go thru Preference items CAREFULLY item by item and disable/remove unwanted settings.
BTW. I also removed the "Playing Time" Parameter.
That's how it looks.
Prefs: Default UI
Status Bar:
%codec% | %bitrate% kbps | %samplerate% Hz | %channels% | %length%
Most probably any dynamic event, like a continuous UI update every second, might have an impact.
BTW: Did you ever come across a function that decodes the flacs prior to playback? On my Linux installations this makes a huge difference on the processor load.
the simplest setup possible and no compression at all.
You need to get the kernel streaming plug in from
their website to make it work.
Edits: 01/21/15
I know. I had it installed.
Thx.
Hiberniation is off by default on W81.
KS is not working with my DAC drivers
I changed CPU affinity and process priority on background processes.
I immediately encountered XRUNS, when running Firefox in parallel.
For now Fidelizer + Foobar runs pretty stable.
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