Can I delete Realtek Drivers & use a Firewire Audio Interface for SONAR 7?
I'm using an Alesis iO26 Audio Interface plugged into the 1394 port. Mac side works great but I have to shut down my wireless connection to my router on the WinXP Pro side to stop audio stuttering. If I disable all the RealTek stuff in my Device Manager as well as the BlueTooth and Marvell Yukon Ethernet controller and set the Performance Options to Background Services, will I generate other unexpected problems?
My whole purpose of using WinXP Pro is to run SONAR 7. There are workarounds in Mac but after 10 years of Cakewalk, I don't want to learn another DAW. Has anyone done this??
Richard
Macbook 2.4gig Penryn w/4gig memory, Hitachi 200gig 7200rpm hd WinXP Pro,
Mac OS X (10.5.2),
Leopard 10.5.2 & Windows XP Pro via BootCamp
Thanks for the reply. The links you provided are helpful. I discovered that the major problem causing the Alesis iO26 to hiccup running Windows Media Player v9 was the wireless connection being on. As soon as I turned that off, my recording problems went away on the WinXP Pro SP2 boot. Interestingly, when I boot into Mac, I can leave the wireless router connection on and there are no problems at all. So that problem is solved.
I still don't understand why Steinberg's Wavelab 5.01b won't allow me to run at 48khz. It always picks 44.1Khz/16bit mode, no matter what I set the Audio interface to. I'll have to do more research here.
Next step is to load up SONAR 7 again and see if it likes the new (wireless off) environment.